Flow chart at Chili Bar dam.

[cmcdhuibh]

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/js...cookies=CDEC01

Don’t know if this link will open but if it does what’s up with these crazy flows .
I fish the river starting at the Greenwood access and wondered why it has become is so hard to find the trout.
Maybe the erratic flows, lol.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

In the 1970s Mike Ziem, Bob Giannoni and I use to fish at the Chili Bar area.


We could turn left after we crossed the 193 bridge over the river from Placerville and park there.

We could then walk for unlimited miles downstream to fish, mostly in the evenings after work in Sacramento.


Just above the bridge and below the dam were some small cabins for rent.

Mike Ziem rented one of those cabins for a week once and Bobby G would join him to fish the river.

I think we used a #16 crème dry fly in the evenings.

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Mike & Kristine Fong put on an onstream trout fishing seminar for the shop about 30 years ago at the Coloma access.

The sad thing was nobody could find any insects under the rocks for educational purposes because of the huge daily flow changes.

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Looks like there is a river access below the 193 bridge:

https://www.facebook.com/ChiliBarRiverPark/

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The other serious problem is that the river gets really warm in the late summer.

Several miles down stream I think I saw a Squawfish around 20 pounds.

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Years ago someone talked about fishing Rock Creek that is way above the Chili Bar dam.

On Google Earth it looks like you can drive down to the SF at the mouth of Rock Creek.

[cmcdhuibh]

I haven’t fished that area, I’m usually below Coloma. I have walked down from Red Shack but was using a metal detector down on the shale at the river.

Years back before a the land was sold north of Lotus to the river for housing, we accessed the river on Hallelujah trail. Caught nice sized trout and sometimes pike in the slow areas. The rafters would come by and ask how we got in there.