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Hopper time
I put on my waders, my felt-soled boots and a fleece vest because it felt a little bit cool when I got to the Oldman River. The sky was cloudy, threatening rain. A chilly breeze was sweeping down the valley from the west. But within 20 minutes I was sweating like I was in the tropics, the breeze had stopped and the sun had popped out from behind the clouds. I should have known. Summer might be winding down, but it ain't done yet. I'd come down to the Oldman River below the Three Rivers Dam to try a bit of late-afternoon grasshopper fishing. No, not fishing for grasshoppers. I mean using big flies imitating grasshoppers to fool some trout into playing with me for a bit. It's the time of year for grasshoppers along the river banks to start leaping and flying around looking for mates.
Catch a tagged trout and have the chance to be a millionaire
Labor Day Weekend, visitors to Mammoth Lakes, Calif. will be able to enjoy live bluegrass, country and classical music, a kids' fishing pond, kids' fishing games, T-shirt painting, trout cooking demonstrations, the Festival of Fine Art, and the second annual Million Dollar Trout Competition, which will be held on Sept. 2-3-4.
Mammoth Lakes is located just off of U.S. 395, about 120 miles south of Carson City and about 40 miles north of Bishop.
That Million Dollar Trout Competition is produced by the Town of Mammoth Lakes in co-operation with Mono County Tourism, the Mammoth Art Guild, and the Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game.
If you like to fish, all you have to do is pay $25 to enter that competition and try to catch a tagged trout at a number of different locations in that general area of California.
Web site gives peek at aquatic insects
Fly fishermen who chase freshwater trout throughout North America now have the ability to get a new detailed peek into the world of aquatic insects which form the forage base for the likes of rainbows, brookies and browns. The web site www.troutnut.com was re-launched in late August and it offers a detailed encyclopedia of mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies. Site developer Jason Neuswanger has gathered thousands of color closeup photographs of trout stream insects. Neuswanger says the web site offers much more than can be found in the hundreds of books on the subject. "The best books were written before I was born," said Neuswanger, a Cornell graduate, "and since that time technology has lifted some big limitations." Neuswanger covers the behavior of the stream side insects, which vary as much as their appearances.
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