It's Monday - time for the weekend roundup of fishing rumor, innuendo and outright fabrication. What do I know? Not a hell of a lot, but what I don't know I'm willing to make up. It's the Internet...
Dave Edmondson bobbicated a couple of fish on the Upper Sac through town late last week, though success was limited and the water was still high. In fact, water levels have actually gone up a bit with the recent warm weather, so the snow's melting and the river's feeling it. (Probably a good time to go to Tennessee and fish.)
Dave Roberts says the Mother's Day Caddis on the Rogue aren't quite there yet, but - with warm weather - they could happen any time. Still, that's far from a certainty (unlike the Sulphurs in Tennessee), and readers are best advised to contact their hatch snitches in Oregon for up-to-the-minute information.
Ian Rutter (who guides in Tennessee, where fish are eating dry flies)
reports pretty good fishing, though fast-resolving high water levels can interrupt fishing for a day or two.
Happily,
Jim Troyer of Southern California - the Underground's Surf Fishing Bikini correspondent - had an epic day on an O.C. beach (one assumes pouty-lipped movie stars were present, but Jim doesn't say):
Had one of my best days ever on Sunday at low tide. The water has been chocolate milk for the past week and I was itching to fish. Drove the beater down into the heart of the O.C. and started fishing. It had been an hour with only one small bump and I was getting ready to leave when I got a good hit.
To make a long story short, it was WIDE OPEN on YFC for about 2 hrs. and I was the only one around. I had two break me off and a couple almost take me into my backing. Mixed in with the YFC were some nice big BSP's to round out the fun. It was BENDO on almost every cast. The grub fly I tie was the "go to" with a small olive/chart. clouser as the dropper. The YFC were 12-14" with my biggest@ 19" and fat. Days like that keep you coming back for more.
Sure, the Underground isn't even clear about what a "YFC" might be, but there are the letters in black white, so clearly they're important. I'm just hoping they're fish - maybe even the handsome specimen Jim's holding below (which is nice, but it's not a trout like the kind you'd catch in Tennessee).
See you on the river.