The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I ended up doing a lot more exploring then I did fishing, but overall it was a great trip



1. don't go on sat and expect to find a camping spot for a 24ft trailer. There was abit of room at Spring Creek Campground at Frenchman Lake.

2. Yes, lightning does start fires and it's reallly exciting to see a bolt come straight down and then see a fire start when you are a couple hundred yds away.

3. Packer Lake is full of very willing brown trout. One fish I caught was in full spawning colors and just as pretty as can be. A second cool thing was watching an osprey take a small trout and then watching another osprey try and take it away from him. They put on a very cool show for a minute or so.

4. Upper salmon lake was tougher as I only had 6 hits and no fish even on. The fish were either small or short taking. Very deep lake and I didn't see any weed beds. I didn't fish the whole lake.

5. Snag lake was looked at but not fished. The water looked "funny" and two dead fish were floating by the campground. It was a bit,,ahh,,off color to the green side as opposed to very clear.

6. Gold Lake is a big lake and has sizable white caps on a windy day.

that's my repot

Paul

ps: thanks again to littlehoover and Phil for the advice.

Carpy-
Glad you had a good time.That was one tremendous lightning storm!Had a fire a mile or so above my house in Loyalton and one strike hit the transformer a couple hundred feet away.

Happy to have been a help!

Jay

Went lookin' for you Saturday and Sunday to tell you to fish Packer with Damsel nymphs. It was pretty good. Any of those fish you caught have double damsel rigs in them? I broke off several, and hoping to get them back.

Phil

PS: Glad you had a great trip and sorry we didn't hook up.

I have fished Snag several times in the past few weeks. The wife and I got kayaks for our anniversary which are perfect for fishing those lakes. I don't understand the dead fish at snag. I saw several. But there are plenty of live ones too, especially at the far end of the lake. And that is what makes the kayak much better than the float tube (I have a 25 yr old dounut style tube).

Paker Lake is even better but I have a bad habit of showing up at the same time as all the kids from the camps up there. (Nothing like 30 8th grade girls trying to figure out how to paddle canoes to take some of the fun out of fishing. Many seem to think the harder you smack the paddle on the aluminum canoe, the faster it goes.) Should not be a problem any more this year.

I was bs'in with a guy at Gold Lake and he mentioned that they stock Packers for the kids. I only caught Browns, so do they stock it with Brown Trout???

Paul

Carpy wrote:
I was bs'in with a guy at Gold Lake and he mentioned that they stock Packers for the kids

Paul

Now that explains why we had such a good time there!

I caught rainbows and brookies, but no browns.

of flash - body and tail rust color, intermediate line, short strips after counting to 3 or 4.

over a dozen browns in an hour or so..a 60 plus day,,,over 10 fish over 6"



Paul