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Fish Report for 12-10-2008
East Walker River Fish Report- 2008 X-mas Fish'n Conditions
12-10-2008
Howdy friends and Sierra Drifters, best fishes to all. Here are the 2008
X-mas Fish'n Conditions for the Eastern High Sierra.. I had the honor of
guiding Santa and his favorite elf Christa on a drift boat trip recently.
Apparently Claus needed to get away from his heavy work load and take a
drift on one of our guided "drift sleds"! click on www.sierradrifters.com/fish.htm to view the picture.
To sum up in one word how the fishing has been since our prior report.
SAAAWEEET! Great weather, well above average fishing most days in all the
year around waters, and noticeably uncrowded. It has been one of the most
pleasant falls I can remember. The dry fly opportunities on the Upper and
Lower Owens Rivers have been incredible and superior to any fall season in
recent memory. The long range forecast is calling for some colder more
seasonable conditions to arrive with the full moon; however significant
snowfall is not forecasted with this initial set of storms.
Road Trips!!!
Sierra Drifters founder Tom Loe will be doing Power Point assisted seminars
on fly fishing and the techniques used to ply the waters of the Sierra this
winter. He will be speaking for the Diablo Valley Fly Fishers on January 13, 2009,
and then the San Jose Fly Fishers on January 14, 2009. Tom will head down to So-Cal
and greet the Deep Creek Fly Fishers on January 28, 2009, and then again for the Fly
Fishers of Orange County on the evening of January 29, 2009. These seminars are
loaded with seldom published information, Tom's special guide tips, combined
with plenty of instruction and are formatted as "off the water" guide trips.
If you fish the Sierra you will find these seminars very rewarding. Tom has
been professionally guiding for over a decade and has logged over 2700 guide
trips to date. The public is welcome to attend. Please contact the clubs
for information, start times, and directions.
Diablo Valley - www.diablovalleyflyfish.org
San Jose ??? www.flycasters.org
Orange County ??? www.ffcoc.org
Deep Creek - www.deepcreekflyfishers.org
Sierra Drifters Guide Service implemented a "Fishing Relief Stimulus"
program effective October 31st. If you have had it with politics and market
watching and wish to get away and debate with a huge brown or watch a BWO
mayfly drift into a brightly colored rainbows mouth we have several guided
fishing programs to campaign about. For a limited time we have rolled back
our guide rates to 2005 prices! When is the last time you saw a guide
service lower prices? Gas prices are coming down and the fishing is great.
We can customize gift certs for that special fly fisher for the holidays at
the special price also. Go to
DFG:
We have dodged a major bullet here in the Eastern Sierra due to a recent
court ordered decision to prohibit the stocking of trout in areas where they
may potentially threaten, or compete with endangered species. The DFG has
negotiated a temporary deal with the court and the two environmental groups
that are responsible for the action to keep the majority of the previously
planted waters stocked until January 1st 2010, or until a formal EIR has
been presented to the groups and the court illustrating that the stocking of
non-native trout will not negatively impact the waters in which they are
being planted. The financial repercussions of this decision will be of
major significance to many locations, as well as the embattled DFG. Sotcher
Lake in the San Joaquin basin will no longer be planted, as well as Pine
Creek drainage near Bishop for the local drive to waters in the Eastern
Sierra.
We have provided a link to the DFG so you may examine the multitude of
fisheries that are going to be impacted by this new law, as well as the
groups and people responsible for the suit. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/
Flows are really low and we are not fishing the Cal section at this time.
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