Crowley Lake: Good-Excellent
The fishing here on Crowley Lake this week would best be descibed as epic. We have seen some very large specimens coming to the net this week with the Crowley Lake grand slam(rainbow, brown, cutthroat) becoming an every day occurence on my skiff. Also, the d.f.g. has started their annual stocking program and the willie's are starting to make their presence felt in all of our inlets to the lake. The areas that I would concentrate on this week would be McGee Bay in 7-14 feet, Green Banks in 7-15 feet, East Flat in 7-13 feet, and Six Bays in 7-15 feet. The flies that I would suggest for this week would be larva patterns in black/silver, black/red,gray/black, olive/silver and blood midge's. For the pupa I would suggest gray/black, gray/silver, olive/silver, and black/black. For those of you pulling streamers right now I would suggest pulling a type 2 or 3 sinking line. The flies that I would suggest for this week would be olive, black, and brown hale bopp leaches, hornberg's, olive and black matuka's, and olive zonker's in sizes #10-14. 3x to your point fly and hold on! Good luck and happy hunting!
Upper Owens: 101 c.f.s.
The Upper Owens has been fishing very well again this week as this is the most consistent top notch fishery in the Eastern Sierra's at this time. The d.f.g. has been on a very routine stocking program here at this fishery and this has in turn produced a fishery that is coming back to Blue Ribbon status. There are also a few large brood stock fish in the system right now and one of these big boys will surely make for a quality photo. These fish are averaging 4-10 pounds so you had better have your game face on when tackling one of these trout. I have fished and guided every piece of water on the Upper Owens this year and I have not found one area to be better than the other. Below the bridge or above it really doesn't matter. There are fish everywhere. The most consistent hatches that I have seen this week continue to be caddis flies, midges, trico's, and a few b.w.o.'s that have been popping of mid-day. I would suggest throwing caddis pupa, black p.t.'s, zebra midges, blood midges, and prince nymphs have been spanking'em subsurface. For those of you on top I would suggest parachute caddis, parachute hopper's, and b.w.o. comparadun's in sizes 16-20. For streamers I would suggest a Type 2 sink tip or an intermediate sinking line right now and would be pulling size#12-14 olive and brown zonker's, black RL Krystal bugger's, and double bunnies have been sticking some of the larger fish in the system. Good Luck!
East Walker: 90 c.f.s.
I would not suggest fishing the East Walker right now as the water temp's are to high and the outflow is to low that is coming from B.P.R. These low levels of oxygen content can be devistating for our watery loving friends after a long hard fought battle with an angler and will more than likely put more stress on the fish and will actually result in his mortality. So, if you are an East Walker afficionadio then I had better not see you on the water! We are fly fisherman. Act like one. Conservation and respecting the environment is what we are in a few words summed up and I sure would like to see the East Walker remain at the top of it's game. We will be fishing here in the fall when the water temp's are in the low 60's other than that you will not see me here.
Lower Owens: 459 c.f.s.
We will be fishing here this fall when the air temperature is below 100 and the c.f.s. is below 350. I just do not enjoy melting in the sun while I am fishing the Lower Owens in the summer. It's not that the fishing is bad it is just miserable. Mark my words though, this fall will be one to remember as we will have very consitent flows this winter for months on end. B.W.O.'s here we come!
Tight Lines,
Nicholas Lawton
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