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FISH FORECAST: Weather playing role in local derby
It's the final weekend for the Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby and some of the top anglers are waiting with baited breath (pun intended) to see what's going to happen with the weather. The key seems to be how intense it will be based on the intensity of Ernesto and what track the storm will take. Most anglers are hoping that it steers clear of the Great Lakes and the derby can finish up as planned — with some impressive catches being taken to the scales. However, you're better off checking things out for yourself to see if it's fishable or not this weekend. Hard northeast blows last weekend and at mid-week has moved water around and created strong currents in the lake. Cold water at the pier heads last weekend produced the first salmon of the year off the pier heads in Olcott according to Wes Walker at The Slippery Sinker.
GIANT SEQUOIAS, NO CROWDS
The groves of massive giant sequoias and nearby array of towering granite pinnacles make Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park one of the world's greatest showpieces. Yet, because of the long, circuitous route to get there for almost everybody, it gets a fraction of the visitors who go to Yosemite. Once school starts, and in turn, the fall season in September and October, the numbers drop yet further. I've seen fall mornings there where I even had the Grant Grove all to myself for the half-mile loop walk, and later, the Kings River was like my personal fly-fishing stream. Here are the best of lodging, camping, driving tours, easy hikes, cave tours and fly fishing: Grant Grove: Of the several groves of giant sequoias, the Grant Grove may be the most sensational and easy to reach, with an easy half-mile loop hiking trail that meanders amid the giants.
Fly Fishing Federation a great teaching group
Last week, Yours Truly was privileged to sit in on the fly tying workshop presented by members of the San Juan Fly Fishing Federation. Not only are Ray Hood, Willis Knight, and Jon Haxton great fly tiers, they are truly good people. In fact, I have been duly impressed with the Fly Fishing Federation as a whole. The entire group is friendly, plus they offer free fly fishing clinics, casting seminars, and tying demonstrations. And, they schedule monthly group fishing trips, volunteer to work with children and charitable projects while regularly having highway cleanup projects near the Quality Waters section on the San Juan River. The club is truly service-minded and the members' love for fly fishing shines brightly through every thing they do. It was not until recently, last winter in fact, that I joined the Federation.
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