Labor Day weekend is this upcoming weekend. Make sure to call ahead for camping or lodging information to reserve your favorite place.

Lake Alpine has been good fishing early morning and the last hour of the evening. Trollers should try using Apex, Needlefish, and Glitter Bugs behind a small dodger tipped with a nightcrawler or flasher/nightcrawler combo. Baitcasters should try floating Power Eggs, Gulp Powwer Bait, Gulp Eggs, nightcrawlers, and salmon eggs on a 30" to 36" leader. Lure casters should try Panther Martin Spinners, Rapalas. and Kastmasters. Fly casters should try caddis flies, mayflies, nymphs, hoppers, muddler minnows, adams, and blue wing olive flies.

The ramp at Spicer Lake is now out of the water with only the tip of the dock still in the water. You will need a 4 wheel drive to launch. If you do launch at Spicer beware of all the rocks that are just under the surface around the lake. Trollers should try using Apex, Needlefish, Wedding Rings, and Glitter Bugs tipped with a nightcrawler behind a small dodger or a flasher/nightcrawler combo. Bait casters should try inflated nightcrawlers, salmon eggs, floating Power Eggs, Gulp Power Bait, Gulp Nightcrawlers, and Gulp Eggs. Fly casters should try using hoppers, crickets, adams, ants, mayflies, and nymphs. Lure casters should try Rapalas, and Panther Martin spinners.

The North Fork of the Stanislaus has been slow due to heat and the full moon. Bait fishermen should try split-shotting inflated nightcrawlers, salmon eggs,crickets, Floating Power Eggs, Gulp Eggs, and Gulp Nightcrawlers. Lure casters should try Panther Martin spinners, and Rapalas. Fly fishermen should try hoppers, adams, woolly buggers, mayflies, caddis, and nymphs.

White Pines Lake, located near Arnold, has been producing fish early morning and late evening. Try using floating Power Eggs on a 30" to 36" leader using a cast-a-bubble.

Mosquito Lake has been producing some fat rainbows. This last week a customer brought in a 5lb. 4oz. beauty caught with a floating power egg/salmon egg combo. Bait casters should try power egg/salmon egg combo, nightcrawlers, Gulp Eggs, Gulp Nightcrawler, and crickets on a 30" to 36" leader. Lure casters should try Rapalas, Kastmasters, and Panther Martin spinners. Fly fishermen should try caddis, nymphs, woolly buggers, hoppers, adams, and mayflies.

For an adventure and a chance to catch some beautiful brook trout try Highland Lake. Fly fishermen should try hoppers, adams, nymphs, woolly buggers, caddis, and mayflies.

For camping and trail information you can contact the Alpine Ranger Station at (209) 753-2811. The Lake Alpine Alpine campground can be reached at (209) 753-2671. You can contact The Calaveras Ranger District at (209) 795-1381 or visit their website at http://wwwr5.fs.us/stanislaus/calaveras. For camping information at Big Trees State Park you can call (209) 795-2334 or visit their website at http://sierra.parks.state.ca.us/cbt/btfacts.htm. Golden Pines website is http://www.goldenpinesrvresort.com Be sure to contact any of our local ranger station for an update on current fire restriction. I would like to also send out a special THANK YOU to our firefighters for the way they knocked out the fires this last weekend.