August 2004 Short Reports
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e are pleased to bring you a new feature which we are calling the Short
Report. As editor, it is my privilege to hear a lot of fishing stories from
PFF'ers, some true, some, well let's say embellished a bit. Truthful or
not, it occurred to me that we really should let everyone in on the story
by putting them here on our website. Who doesn't like a good tale?
All kidding aside, I'm hoping that we can share our experiences and skills through our stories and fishing reports. And, now with the new Google search facility, it will be easy to find out which PFF'er fished that river you've had your eye on. Just search and the knowledge is there. Of course, then you can call the author and get the real story.
To submit a report, just email it to the . To economize on space, please keep your text to one or two paragraphs. You may also send a picture if you have one.
Oasis Lodge
Oasis Lodge, Paynes
Creek, June 2: Located near Lassen Volcanic National Park, this lodge
owns private water on Battle Creek. I caught 6 rainbows the first night,
fishing from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, but only one per day after that. All were
caught on dry flies. It was fun, but the food there was not so good.
– Vic Buhrke
Upper Sacramento River
Castle Crags State
Park, July 3 - 5: I camped at Castle Crags and fished the Upper Sac.
Not only was it crowded, the temperatures in Redding were 103 degrees, which
eventually drove me to wet wading. The highlights of the trip were the pig-trout
in my picture which nailed a Dark Lord nymph (#18) near Mossbrae Falls and
a mayhem filled evening spent in a fantastic caddis hatch just upstream
from the Castle Crags campground. I stood on the ledge of an enormous pool
for 45 minutes and cast an E/C Caddis to a school of trout "porpoising"
after hatching caddis flies. I stopped counting after 10 or 15 fish to hand.
An absolutely magical evening.
– Rodney Chun
Twin Lakes
Lower Twin Lake near Bridgeport, June 28 - July 1:
We had a mix of mirror-like
water and whitecaps, sometimes going from one to the other in seconds, but Lower
Twin had fish. In less than 18 hours on the water, spread over the four days, we
netted and released over 70 trout. One was a 6 inch brown and the rest were rainbows.
None over 1-1/2 pounds, but all were great fighters. They were taking a rusty brown
leach or a brown wooly bugger. Sometimes they were resting. Other times we could not
get the fly back in the water fast enough. The setting was astounding. On our way back,
we just missed a hail storm that covered the ground on the west side of the summit.
Not bad for a couple of old goats!
– Tom Lamb
East Carson River
East Cason River, July 24:
Today I attended a nymphing clinic given my the Tahoe Fly Fishers
Shop. It was a clinic in which the instructor said the program was about learning nymphing
technique rather than catching fish due to being too close to Hangman's Bridge on the East Fork
Carson River, and the time of day (9:30 AM till 1:30 AM). HA HA, I caught a 12 inch rainbow that
put up a fight. He broke the fly off as I reached down to release him. Oh well it's a zero kill
area so he was going to get away anyway. I will be nymphing more often even though I love to dry
fly fish anyway. The weather has been warm and the shy is full of thunder clouds. Sorry no pictures.
– Rich Palmini
Keep those reports and photos coming!
Rodney