Howdy friends and Sierra Drifters. Best fishes to all for this "Fly Fish'N Gals" of summer fish report from the Eastern High Sierra. Check out these beauties (and I mean the fish too) by clicking on our website fish report. Jeepers Crow do I love my job!!! Click on www.sierradrifters.com/fish.htm to see the Fly Fish'N Gals and their fish.

There have been some significant changes in several of the top fisheries since our prior report. The creeks and rivers are all decreasing in flow due to the diminishing snow melt. It has also been very warm this summer which has accelerated the run-off in the upper snow fields. August is prime time for T-storms in this region and one should expect afternoon storms to develop off and on the remainder of this month.

Reliable backcountry sources tell me that the mosquito population is alive and well this year, and it is one of the worse seasons they can remember. The "skeeters" have not been too bad in the lower elevations, but make sure you put on your chemical shields before hiking into any of the alpine meadows, or San Joaquin area.

Please take extra care if you have a campfire or when discarding your smokes. The fire danger is extreme this summer and there has already been one severe local forest fire near the Sherwin Creek area around Mammoth Lakes that has destroyed some beautiful habitat.

Get well soon Skip Baker, owner of the Big Meadows Lodge in Bridgeport. Your friends in the fishing community are in your corner pal.