kgselect
05-22-2009, 11:29 AM
Finally got a chance to fish and post a report. Sorry for the sparse contributions. In any case, spent the weekend with my friends up in Mammoth Lakes and fished Crowley Lake in float tubes. The weather was really great, but, overall, the fishing was a bit slow. We fished Sandy Point (mostly), Lower Six Bays and McGee Bay. I primarily fly fished with midges and managed to catch 3 trout and a couple of perch on the midge. My friends used inflated night crawlers and were able to scratch out close to limits of fish. Even the guides seemed to have a difficult time locating active fish. A few other float tubers found the right pattern and location on Monday AM and were catching fish fairly consistently. The water temps were in the high 50s and low 60s, but varied quite a bit during the day and overnight. I fished from 11ft to 15ft with varying depths on my indicator. The guides seemed to be targeting the same depth. I used a double midge set-up with a small split shot above the 2nd midge and a float indicator to vary the depth. Tried to keep the bottom fly anywhere from 1’ to 3’ off the bottom. Changed colors and patterns quite a bit (zebra, tiger, emerger, copper, crystal, olive, etc), but, never seemed to find a consistent pattern. The fish were bigger this year on average than last year, and, the Sacramento perch were huge.
Although the fishing was slow, the time on the water was great and it was just nice to get away and be in the beautiful High Sierras.
Although the fishing was slow, the time on the water was great and it was just nice to get away and be in the beautiful High Sierras.