07-10-2011, 10:01 PM
Went south to the fish Lake area last weekend and fished UM creek. Drove past the Freemont at the Johnson Valley Reservoir outlet and it looked great (never been there before so not sure what 'normal' looks like, but it seemed pretty fishable to me).
UM creek seemed high & was pretty swift but it's small enough to easily fish from shore. Didn't see any fish rising but there were a lot of bugs on the water. Caught a lot of nice cutthroat trout using beadhead hairs ear & prince nymphs, size 16-18. Smallest was 10", biggest was 16" and really colorful.
Drove to 7 mile creek too, saw a couple rise there during a brief rainstorm but that was it for surface activity. It also looked very nice.
There were some big hoppers in the grass so I imagine when the runoff tapers off a bit more (we drove Goosberry Road from Salina over the 10,600 pass--got turned around by a drift across the road, but not a lot of snow left up there) and the water warms up a little I think terrestrials should be a lot of fun.
Mike
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UM creek seemed high & was pretty swift but it's small enough to easily fish from shore. Didn't see any fish rising but there were a lot of bugs on the water. Caught a lot of nice cutthroat trout using beadhead hairs ear & prince nymphs, size 16-18. Smallest was 10", biggest was 16" and really colorful.
Drove to 7 mile creek too, saw a couple rise there during a brief rainstorm but that was it for surface activity. It also looked very nice.
There were some big hoppers in the grass so I imagine when the runoff tapers off a bit more (we drove Goosberry Road from Salina over the 10,600 pass--got turned around by a drift across the road, but not a lot of snow left up there) and the water warms up a little I think terrestrials should be a lot of fun.
Mike
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