Yuba report

[yubaman]

I was able to fish the Lower Yuba today, as well as 9 days ago. Flows are 1000 cfs, great wading flow and the water is gin clear. There were some BWO’s and PMD’s flying during the day, not many, but some. I did see a couple of rises during the day.

When I was up 9 days ago, it looked like the start of the egg bite. Salmon were in the system, pairing up. Redds were being dug, etc. Not a ton of salmon, but a start. Trout were eating egg patterns very aggressively! Well 9 days later . . . Very few fish in the system ??? What? I thought things were just getting going? The DF & W fish biologists doing the salmon carcass recoveries were out and about, and I got a chance to speak with them. Their feeling was, put a fork in the Yuba salmon run for 2024 😵*💫. They felt that we were seeing the end of the run and that it was a small, quick run for the Yuba this year. Sad news.

Great sunset on the river this evening though . . .



Fishing was very slow for every other fisherman I spoke with today. Time to look forward to the Skwala hatch it seems . . .

[Rossflyguy]

I thought the Yuba starts to see salmon end of August or beginning of September?

[yubaman]

I remember about 12 years ago the big push of fish was the week after Labor Day. Every year it seems to push back about a week. Apparently this year the first salmon showed up the last week of October. The run was very small and one quick push according to the DF & W staff on the river today. Again, today was very slow. The DF & W creel counters were out today. They congratulated me for being high catch count on the river today with those they had surveyed . . . With 1 fish!

There were some risers today. I could not see what they were eating. I would guess something in the film, possibly just something tiny that I could not see. I tried BWO’s, Baetis, PMD’s and could not get them to eat anything.

[Rossflyguy]

Maybe more salmon above the bridge and the trout/steelhead followed.

[Ken Kondo]

Has anybody seen the water clarity of the Lower Yuba after December 1? Any information on it will be appreciated before I make a 3-hour drive from the south bay.
Thanks,
Ken

[bonish]

Has anybody seen the water clarity of the Lower Yuba after December 1? Any information on it will be appreciated before I make a 3-hour drive from the south bay.
Thanks,
Ken

Clarity fine up by UC property, but was somewhat more stained than on December 1. Some sporadic hatches of very small mayflies. Send me a message, I think my brother and I met you on the river many years ago.