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Fishing report for Aug. 25
EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to rapidly changing weather conditions in the Sierra and Northern Nevada, anglers are urged to call ahead to the sources listed at the end of each area description for reports on the latest road and water conditions. FRENCHMAN LAKE: Fishing picked up over the last week. Limits of good-sized rainbows (14-16-inches) are being taken at Spring Creek, the boat ramp and the east end of the dam. Nightcrawlers are working best. Chartreuse Powerbait produced limits for a group of fishermen at Nightcrawler Bay, Turkey Point and Lunker Point. Catfish continue to be plentiful around the lake. Wiggin's Trading Post, (530) 993-4683. The Gilly, 358-6113. DAVIS LAKE: Water temperatures are cooling and fishing is improving. The surface temperature was 69 degrees Wednesday and the fish were active.
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.
On the Fly: Hoppers and droppers
Dave Johnson, owner of Carbondale-based Independent Flyfishing Guides, reached on his boat during a float down the middle Roaring Fork River on Monday, had just released an 18- to 20-inch rainbow that rose to a hopper.
The hopper/dropper combo is a good bet on the Roaring Fork these days, according to Johnson, who recommends a small pheasant tail for the dropper (a small nymph trailing off a larger dry fly).
The Colorado River flowing through Glenwood Canyon remains chocolate brown, but the lower Fork is also producing trout in the net with a hopper/dropper combination, according to Drew Reid at Roaring Fork Anglers in Glenwood Springs. He suggested a small blue-wing olive nymph or emerger pattern for the dropper - a No. 18 or 20 RS-2 or a pheasant tail.
"If it's cloudy, we're throwing streamers and doing really well," Reid added.
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