Fished the West Carson this morning, used a 2 wt. with good success as long as I remembered to not try and horse them in. It was 32 degrees in Hope Valley and 49 degrees down in the canyon at 6am. Water is in perfect condition, great day on the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZvrQpWj0E
Alpine has stocked the river and the baites took the majority of the alpers. I did manage to find a couple a caught a nice 20"+ alper. But there are plenty of willing wilds if you know where to look. Put em back and treat em nice. And pick up your friggn garbage and bring it home!
Does anyone know if Alpine co clips the fin on the stockers? I hooked up on a few which are out of a stocked lake but their fins are not clipped. What do you guys think?
I always check the tails. Pen raised fish have slightly rounded tail from all the rubbing on cement and other fish. Wild fish have nice sharp corners to their tails.
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