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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.
Mother Nature joins fight to control Rapid bass
For the past several years the number of bass in the Rapid River has been growing, troubling anglers who seek this world-class trout and salmon fishery near Farmington. Efforts this spring to disrupt the fish from spawning using a first-time study failed, said state fisheries biologist Forrest Bonney. But Mother Nature created an experiment all her own that may provide data that would help biologists get a handle on how to control these predatory pests. "One of the things about bass they don't react well in (high) water levels before spawning and during spawning and after spawning," said Jeff Reardon, Trout Unlimited New England director. "I don't think anything in this year's result discouraged us. It confirmed what we already know: Bass are really sensitive.
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