I know it comes up and there's that whole thread - Is this board worth anything ... anymore? Thought it'd be good to express the following: Well, like other message boards; some that are now defunct like the Kern board(s), I feel that they have a great value as a repository of potentially useful dat...

Cool! Well, LMBs, Carp, Green Sunfish all sneak way up that drainage. One key thing to consider, and it's part of the challenge, is simply that these fish travel around a LOT. I have found them at the lake and other times nowhere except miles upstream. It's always work even when it is good. Temps an...

Isn't the mass amount of rains supposed to entice steelhead from entering their ancestral homes? I know an acquaintance that years (if not a decade) ago, caught a pretty nice sized steelhead off the surf in Malibu. I wonder if we'll have any incidental by catches from the surf this year. And I wond...

It's a total grind to get there but I think this year we're going to work up to it and who knows? So, I confirmed from a little birdy that the road that leads towards what used to be Blue Point was open, and you could drive all the way up until the "Pot Hole Trail Head," which Im not fami...

McFlyfi wrote:Nice pics.
Happening all over SoCal.
Here's one of my old stomping grounds- Matilija Creek (Ojai):
https://youtu.be/XL78EWDz4Bs

Wow!

I have been documenting flows and ultimately capturing the drama of a few local streams as they experience crazy flows. This also has to do with observing what are essentially useless dams during the recent weather events. Here's good ol' Malibu Creek going ballistic. Enjoy: https://trouthugger.blog...

FIGHTONSC, DarkShadow ... thanks for chiming-in. I agree with several of the points. For the west fork was very low on my list. It is a shame that just before the Bobcat Fire it was fishing unusually well. As for the watershed (P***) and these are gauges, I have been watching those very closely as w...

First off, apologies for my report being sort of bitter sweet but that's southern California trout for you right? I love how the conversation has morphed into the deeper reaches of the WF. I have visited Devils Canyon numerous times both from the 2 as well as from Cogswell. I'd say my first time the...

Happy new year everyone! I decided to visit this extremely easy to access stream to, well, see how it is faring. Academic curiosity! Sorry but I did not post much in the way of text/descriptions so should any of you be curious, the first photo is from the WFSG while the others are from, well, anothe...

Fish streamers?
* Sorry I could not resist.
That said, floatant stains are a drag. I surrendered myself to just leaving them as signs-of-wear .... you know, like scratches on a guitar ...Worse, for me, are sticky deposits of sap that happen when sitting on a log streamside ...
- Bernard

Simply beautiful!

You are killing me with this beautiful volley of fantastic wisdom. I owe you all. This is helping a LOT! The rest is simple, so to speak, GO!
- Bernard

Hello fellow Addicts! I am hoping to host my in-laws for their first visit to the Sierra Nevada this fall. My mother in law wants very much to see quality fall colors while my father in law is a western film fanatic so the idea is to go over Tioga Pass (we will be first in the Yosemite area) and ide...

I have not necessarily "given up" but I have most certainly lowered my expectations. That said, even in streams that were hit hard by drought, there are those strange moments when the fish seem to appear out of nowhere. A recent volley of treks, intended for physical training, to the upper...

I am remiss to post about numerous interesting Sierra trips as well as my second this year to Baja. Will probably post links to my blog. Tough year. Lots of Covid incidents. I had a breakthrough case and my wife's family has had a few deaths.