I was on the Lower Owens 3/21 and flows were quite high, very limited wadeing. Locals were saying they'd just kicked the flows up. In fact I found flow quite high, I'd say at runnoff levels, in the upper Owens, and even in the gorge......they still had 18" of snow on the upper making the walking tough.....and long as you could 4 wheel in too far either.
All that said I had a lousy day on the upper, a kind of moderate day in the gorge, and a great day on the lower due to an incredible Caddis hatch that apparently went on for nearly a day......or longer. While finding fish in the lower is generally tough (for me anyway) in high water, and always sub-surface, this hatch had them looking and feeding up and it went on and on.
Mike
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