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http://www.virginialakesresort.comSmoke, smoke and just more smoke has plagued the
Eastern Sierra sky-line for the past week
lessening the visual beauty of the scenic
corridor. But the good news is that Alpers were
planted last Monday, and DFG came up with 500lbs
of ? to 1 pound trout for the holiday
anglers. What! Where were the anglers,
definitely not here, most likely staying close to
home in case fires kicked up around their area.
The first day of clear skies was Saturday and
hopefully some of the fires around the state have
been or close to being contained. We have been
unable to get a good fire report on the White
Wolf fire on Highway 120 over Tioga Pass and it
has been closed for 4 days now, but Hwy. 108 is
open. They are about 35 miles apart, and will
drop you about 15 miles north of Bridgeport on US
395, it's not a bad drive, just don't ride your
brakes coming down toward the Marine base.
Fires may have slowed the traffic, but not the
bite. The catching has been terrific, and I
would never fabricate fishing news regardless if
I keep my door open or not. DFG gave a report at
a Fish and Game Advisory Commission meeting two
weeks ago in Bishop. We have a great guy running
our area, Gary Williams and he was very positive
regarding what will happen with Fish and Game in
the near future. The report will be on this site shortly.
Biggies for the week were caught by Steve Stewart
of Orange caught a nice 2lb 3oz, Ryan Russell of
San Diego used a Buoyant (brown edge) on his 2lb
10oz, Robyn Takeshita age 12 of Laguna Niguel
caught a 3lb 6oz on Salmon Peach power bait,
Roger and Cathy Bearden of Carson City NV caught
and released a couple nice Alpers over 2 lbs on Flies.
Garlic power bait sales could probably bring the
economy out of the hole and might be an
alternative for gas powered cars. I guess no one
has thought about that. That's my late night
thinking about tying flies and working on the economy.
Stay with power bait, power worms (are they going
to make garlic power worms or what), crawlers,
red/gold Thomas Buoyants, fire stripe Hot Shots,
silver and gold prism 1/8th oz Kastmasters, and
black Rooster Tails. Black ants, black gnats,
grey hackle yellow, olive elk hair caddis
(naked), and Hornbergs, wooly buggers in black,
burgundy, rust, dark rusty brown, and orange. Oh
Yeah, I forgot the It's all good. See you on the water.....carolyn
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What will Mother Nature send out way in the next few days? Whatever it is hopefully it will include more of the same without the smoke from the fires over the mountain. Visibility has decreased in the last 24 hours, but it clears up at this elevation overnight into the early morning. Hopefully these fires will be under control in the near future. Biggies for the week were caught by Matt Ross of Orange with a 3lb 2oz Alpers on a fly, Todd......
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The week started out slow but changed when DFG arrived and things heated up to a frenzy. Fishing got hot and catching sizzled and a few larger fish started to hit my board. Daryl Simons of Mission Viejo caught a 5lb 8oz. on power bait out of Big Virginia with Mateo Venegas age 3 caught a 4lb 2oz with his Dad's help, and Todd Roberts Jr. (age 11) of Ramona caught a nice 3lb 2oz Alpers on a crawler. Weather stayed very warm most......
