The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I ventured over to the East side earlier this week for a bit of fishing (and catching)!

Mono Lake looking as tranquil as I have ever seen it.



Only three rainbows, the rest were browns. Here is one of the former.



Compare the spotting pattern on this brown



to the pattern on this one. It almost looks like another specie, huh?



A shot with my underwater case. This was rather uncomfortable to hold this for the shot, as the water was a balmy 34 degrees in the morning when I started fishing. It didnt seem to matter to the trout, who were on the bite all three days.



Some cool clouds along Wheeler Ridge



I had this well-known hot spring to myself, which is to say, if you know this place, is a very rare occurrence.



Perhaps the lack of visitors to the spring was due to the snow on the road in. Perhaps the spring was hippie-proof because hippies dont usually have 4WD. What the snow lacked in depth, it side made up for it in slipperiness.



All in all it was a good trip, nice weather, plenty of trout, beautiful scenery, and a warming soak in natures hot tub. A bonus is that most of the fish were caught on flies that I had tied, which is something I am still learning about (slowly!), but this was a nice boost of confidence.

Cheers!


FlyGuy (Dave)

Wow! Awesome report! Makes me want to head over the Sierra right now. THanks for sharing.

Dawn

Agreed, great report!
We need to get that Mini-Bash going!

Great pics & a great post.
I sure wish we would see more of these posts! Like in the good old days here at the NCFFB where I would have to put on a bib before I get to this site because I was droolin' over all the fish porn!
Sure miss those days!

Very nice report, makes me jealous. cant wait to get there.

Well lets start this , I was thinking the 2nd week in april would be prime. do we set a date and see what happens from there. any input would be great.

I fully agree with you about the kind of posts that we've seen as of late, but I think most of it has to do with the time of year more than anything else. I think it's pretty fun to post pics of some of my FF trips, but I loathe crowds as much, if not more, than your average angler, so I always keep where I was fishing as vague as possible, so as to not overwhelm the place. I'm also reluctant to raise the ire of some of the people on this board, who seem to look for any excuse to get into a web based shouting match. That's the main reason I lurked for so long before posting on a 'kind of' regular basis. Board history shows that if you reveal to much, it'll get ugly fast. No thanks.

Cheers!

FlyGuy (Dave)

Thanks for that great report. Headed over there at end of March for a week. Hope the snow is melted by then! Loved the snow in your pics, though.
Betty

<<<I'm also reluctant to raise the ire of some of the people on this board, who seem to look for any excuse to get into a web based shouting match. That's the main reason I lurked for so long before posting on a 'kind of' regular basis.>>>
Gosh, maybe that's why few post here any longer.
Hopefully, the new management status of the forum will reign in that kind of baloney. I've sent in one "complaint to moderator" so far, and thankfully that post was deleted. Glad to see that "flamin'" is finally getting dealt with. So hopefully the old days of "flamin' posts" may be over.
Once I go back to retirement after 1 April and actually have some time to go fishin' , I'm gonna start posting tons of reports and pics. So I'll see what happens then. If the "flamin' posts" return, I'll be gone for good. I'm not intersted in that kind of baloney.

Right on Dave. How did the motel work out? Heading down with Jake in a few weeks. Did you venture into the valley of death???

Talk to you soon - Tim