Showing posts with label trout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trout. Show all posts

12.05.2014

Yuba Begin Again 12-1-2014



No dataclysm here,
Only in the raw.
Either your catching or not.
No magic rectangle held in your hand
can tell you the code.
Only an observant eye can have
a chance to crack it.
It is nature,
adjusting to its moment.
Only ego must observe and adjust
to become ever present in its flow.
Nature has no ego.



Openning day on the Yuba proved to be spectacular, the day was perfect. 30 fish to hand 10 of which were on BWO drys between 11am-2pm. The rest were on beads and red copper john's, a number of times two at a time. Todd and I both found and hooked twice the 28 inch stellie the biologist had reported being in the river, However our 3x tippets and 4wt split cane rods had no traction on her. In the late afternoon Todd and I hiked back upstream to the fiffle we located her in, but this time she was busy cutting her red. We just sat on shore and watched letting her be, just enjoying the sight of such a beutiful fish.

11.18.2014

Farewell MF and some homebrew. 11-14-2014

Frosty moon apogee,
wanning like my feet.
The long hike,
to Spring Gap.

Returning, casting to rises,
The Pleiades guides us
above quaking leaves,
Maple and Ash.

fish,
colored like fall trees,
sipping baetis,
in the drift.

final day,
we retreate by lamp light.
until April my friend.

On sunday I started to make my first west coast style IPA, I started with a vague intuitive recipe, 7 1/2 lbs of lt.amber malt extract, and 1 lb of crystal malt and decided to burst hop with 2 onces of Fuggle and 2 onces of Citra at 15min and then 5 minutes at the end of the boil. After it cooled Todd and I transfered the wort to the primary and added the giga yeast. So far so good, I think i'll get another 1 once of citra and 2 onces of casscade for the dry hopping when i transfer it in a week or so...

8.03.2014

Yuba-Ku 8-2-2014 Dawn Patrol

















Walking cobbles twilight
dog days of Sirius spinner fall.
Pink Alberts dominate.

No waxing Grain moon.
Along rivers edge, cast, land,
on Dawn Patrol.


8.27.2013

Forks of the Stanislaus

August 2013

Big trees and sour grass,
We hike under giants of old.
Towering cathedral,
shade and light filtered.

In this rivers flow,
Swirls and bubbles,
then babble.

Like a brook.
ancient voices.
stories told.

Even tiny stones can erode big stones.

Granite speckled.
Silver and black with iridescent shades,
as does its fish.



2.04.2013

Yuba Renga 2-1,2-2013


White tail and talons,
above the river's way.
Soaring and gliding.

Trouting with friends,
some old, some new.
The Yuba's bounty, we catch.

Fluid flow,
full of wonder.
My speckled friend rises.

Sloshing and casting,
soggy socks, leaky waders.
Along river's edge.

Ring of the rise.
BWOs skitter the surface.
Little brown fly, the code.

My own private
super bowl.



meat and potaoes:

Yuba River, friday below Hwy 20 bridge, saturday UC property.
weather, friday sunny warm, saturday am partly cloudy pm sunny
Water temp 48 degrees, air temp 70 degrees
Flow 1450cfs
water visability, gin clear
Hours fished, 9:30am til 4:30pm
bug activity; friday abundent Skawalas. saturday BWO hatch 10:30am-1pm Skawalas about pm
5wt single handed bamboo rod, 6wt bamboo spey rod
scandi lines various poly leaders. dry fly furled leader 16 feet long 4lb tippet.
6 fish landed swinging royal coachman wet fly
3 fish landed on Baetis CDC dry fly/emerger
9 fish landed on Skawala dry


7.28.2012

South Fork and the Monarch.


Tumbling freestone glides,
hidden Iridocytes hover in place.
You,
veiled in shimmering opalescence.

The gateway guarded,
Sentinel looms.
Fish of the Monarch.







Steak and Eggs;

South fork Kings River between Hotel Creek and Roaring River
Et; 4 hours, wet wadding.
18 fish total, 8-15 inches, 15 Rainbows and 3 Browns
flow 200cfi
gear; 3wt 7'11" sage SLT and 4wt 9' bamboo switch rod
flies; Goddard Caddis,Tasty Bite,Mac & Cheese, HS Stimulator and Partridge and Orange.
Beer; Sierra Nevada Torpedo and Mammoth 395 IPA

4.02.2012

Yuba-Ku 3-30-2012



Sap moon spoolers,
willows wane.
Mourning cloaks dance.

Follow the swallows.
Hidden spreckeld fish become,
Rhithrogena morrisoni.










Steak and Eggs:
Water clarity was about 24 inchs in slack as well as fast water, however water was about 47 degrees. Phil and I fished below the Parks Bar bridge. I landed two fish, one a salmon smolt about 10 inches and one trout 20 inches both on a march brown soft hackle fly. The exciting part was trying out the prototype bamboo spey rod i just finished. The rod tracked very true and straight and the taper equation for the Grantham ETspey is a very nice 6 weight. I was using a beulah 350 elixir line with a 6lb 10 foot furled leader that turned over smooth. The large fish took the soft hackle right under the surface film with a dynamic splash and then ripped up the run with little time for me to think just strip line. There was a good hatch of March Browns along the seem between fast and slow water, I basically fished the run where swallows were feeding. The hatch started about 11:30am and died out about 2:30pm.

2.11.2012

River of our Lady Mercy


Caddis flutter,
swung tight, Partridge and Copper.
Scales, bamboo and silk.

Color flash,
in the water and trees.
Snow moon also rises.

1.18.2012

Yuba Haiku 1.17.2012





In Dharma's garden,
acrobatic fish, green and red.
We swirling dervish.


9.10.2011

Swing'en Bone Tree in the Truckee hut.


















Peering into pools,
purple depths, fish glide effortless.
Like feet over granite.


I spent a day at the Truckee since the Yuba is closed above the bridge.
The river really turned on at the special time, when the glare easies.
Osprey seem to look elsewhere, but i'm lurking about.
From S-turn to Johns Flat, I worked line.
An 18r on Switch Boo gave me the workout.
No big runs like the Yuba crew, but still the usual "rainbow antics" to play.
The Code... caddis + trout, like a Lotus blooming full of truth.


4.11.2010

Yuba-Ku












Above crossing glide.
infrequens emerge
Rainbows leap, splash!

Timbuctoo bend.
Rhithrogena morrisoni swing,
oh mighty tug!