Eastern Sierra Fishing

The consensus is that while the weather was fairly nice and there was no snow whipping in people’s faces, the fishing was tough for the Opening Weekend. The water is just too cold to wake up the fish! A few people did pretty well on Crowley. I’m told that if you were fishing near Hilton Point, things weren’t too bad and trollers were doing okay near McGee Bay. Overall, this was a nice tune-up weekend and a chance to get out and enjoy some of the most impressive scenery in the world. Now’s your chance…tell us your experience.

A Baetis hatch is already blooming in the Owens River Gorge on down to Pleasant Valley Reservoir by noon. Caddis flies are producing well by mid-afternoon. This is always a nice time to fish this section of the Owens. The water’s flowing about 45 cfs into Pleasant Valley and the water is clear. Get down there now because it’s starting to warm up and the snakes will be out in a month or so!

The Department of Fish and Game approved the following waters for fish stocking in 2010 for the Eastern Sierra Nevada:

Inyo Bishop Creek Middle Fork
Inyo Bishop Creek South Fork
Inyo Bishop Creek, Intake II
Inyo Cottonwood Creek
Inyo Diaz Lake
Inyo Georges Creek
Inyo Goodale Creek
Inyo Independence Creek
Inyo Lone Pine Creek
Inyo Pleasant Valley Reservoir
Inyo Sheperds Creek
Inyo Symmes Creek
Inyo Taboose Creek
Inyo Tuttle Creek
Madera San Joaquin River
Mono Bridgeport Reservoir
Mono Buckeye Creek
Mono Convict Creek
Mono Crowley Lake
Mono Deadman Creek
Mono Ellery Lake
Mono Glass Creek
Mono Grant Lake
Mono Junction Reservoir
Mono Lee Vining Creek
Mono Lee Vining Creek South Fork
Mono Little Walker River
Mono Lost Cannon Creek
Mono Lundy Lake
Mono Mammoth Creek
Mono McGee Creek
Mono Mill Creek
Mono Owens River, Section 3
Mono Reversed Creek
Mono Robinson Creek
Mono Rock Creek, Section 1
Mono Rock Creek, Section 2
Mono Rush Creek
Mono Saddlebag Creek
Mono Sherwin Creek
Mono Swauger Creek
Mono Topaz Lake
Mono Virginia Creek
Mono West Walker River, Section 2
Mono West Walker River, Section 3

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