Clean California Mono Lake Guardrail Project - On U.S. Highway 395 from Picnic Grounds Road to McPhearson Subdivision Road just north of Lee Vining, crews will be upgrading guardrail and installing safety enhancements Wednesday through Friday from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. There will be one-way traffic control and drivers may experience 10-minute delays.

Anglers are still catching trout contracted by DFW to Desert Springs for the Eastern Sierra, and they are great fish, good looking, and good eating. AND BFEF stocked 100 lbs in both lakes for their Derby October 8th.

BAIT: Powerbait is the "go-to" for this past week with worms and micetails in the second spot pinched crawlers AND salmon eggs.

LURES: Same lures are still holding the number one spot: Red/gold Buoyant 1/6 oz., Blue/silver Buoyant 1/6oz, small gold Kastmaster, Gold Super Duper 501, gold Mepps "0", also Panther Martin's, and the re-make of the Hot Shot. Jigs and trout teasers are also pulling in some nice size trout.

FLY AND BUBBLE: This set-is still big this week as it warmed up Saturday again with emergers might do better so try X-Caddis, trimmed wing Elk Hair Caddis (I call my naked caddis). Go on-line and Google emerger fly patterns. Adams Parachute, mosquito #16-18, black gnat para #14-26, Griffith's Gnat, or any small dark flies. Also try a dry fly that is the color of dirt as I just saw a bunch of hoppers the same color as dirt and the black birds are chasing them around the parking lot. Pretty funny. Wow, spider trails just appeared this afternoon, so bring a bunch of soft hackles and tie 'em on and have some fun. Woohoo! Very few are catching because they are not adapting to the continual changing lake temperature.

FLY RODS: Streamers, Woolly's, Matuka's in dark colors or BH flash olive's, hoppers are moving to warmer areas, prince nymph, and emergers. Great hatches the last few days, dark mayflies (duns), with midges overwhelming the hatch. Also try the X-Caddis without a dropper, even some BH woolly buggers, and crystal flashy buggers. Bring it all. Tie it on and use a good presentation if it's dry. You may have a problem catching so patience is probably something you need to put in your tackle bag.

BACKCOUNTRY: Blue and Cooney have been producing on small dry flies like mosquitoes, Griffith's gnats, para-Adams small hoppers and other terrestials. Most are using fly and bubble or worms. Barbless hooks are recommended to protect the resource since these lakes have not been air stocked in some time. Please help the resource by limiting your kill to what you can eat. Try using Owner Mosquito hooks for easy release.

NOTE: If the trout bleeds don’t throw it back into the lake, it will die. If you care about the resource please be careful when releasing fish back into the water, and IT ATTRACKS BEARS.

NOTE: If the trout bleeds don’t throw it back into the lake, it will die. If you care about the resource please be careful when releasing fish back into the water and IT ATTRACKS BEARS.

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