Fish Report for 4-28-2010

Lower Owens River Fishing Report

4-28-2010
Tom Loe

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(1) Flows are great for drifting currently. Here's your chance at getting a trophy like "Scoop" Moreno recently accomplished!
(2) Doc Bailey & Brother, Young Doc Bailey did well with the drift boat "Dip & Strip" Method....

Anyway; fishing has picked up down here as the flows are backing off to a more seasonal release rate. Still on the high side for wading some of the more hard to reach holes in the wild trout section, but drift boat trips have been doing pretty good. We have a real time flow link to the LADWP listed at the top of the fish'N conditions page of our website. The outflow from Pleasant Valley Reservoir is what you need to look at, but I suggest you click on that number and it will take you to another real time graph, which has been accurate. The current outflow number is NOT correct-it shows 541cfs. There is a link to the DWP flows towards the top of this page. The release at PV is around 390cfs and has been 400 and change for well over two weeks. It continues to trend downward and should continue this way into June I am told.

Good caddis activity on the warm days. Some yellow stones, lot's of midges, and the first PMD's (pale morning duns) emerging. If the flows get below 275cfs in the near future, I would drop what you are doing, grab a 4-5wt and get up here asap!


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