Fire and smoke make fishing difficult: Hello all, For the most part I have been cruising around and reading a lot of the posts that I find very interesting. Not been able to fish for a...

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

Hello all,
For the most part I have been cruising around and reading a lot of the posts that I find very interesting.

Not been able to fish for a variety of reasons but the main one is that we are in red flag warning where I live.
Bonn Tempe reservoir where I have done a lot of trout fishing over the years is Closed due to fires and smoke.

I haven't Fished much in the last few years, primarily because I have been involved with horses. Both training and trail guiding in West Marin. Since I am an old fart now working with horses has gotten harder, so with free time on my hands I am looking forward to getting out more. Given the time of year trout fishing has become not very lucrative.

When the smoke and heat wave let up some I want to go back to fishing for bass which I have not done in many years now.

So tight lines everyone and I hope to know people here better in the future.
Little wolf

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I've not fished any of the lakes over there by the coast. Do you ever get up to Tomales Bay or Bodega? Saw1 fishes Lake Sonoma regurlarly and Tomales

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

No I have not gotten up that way. Other than lakes my fishing has been either in the Sierras or Montana, and if I was not so old I would probably pack up and Head out for Montana.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Never fished Montana, but I've spent a lot of time in the Sierras. Where do you like to go? I hear you on that age thing. Lots of places I used to go to I can't easily get to any more. Not safe with a bad back and poor balance. You know what I'm takin about.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Little Wolf wrote:

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Hey LW. Welcome to the stage.
It sounds like you fish from the shore and not a boat.
All the fishin I do is mainly from a boat so not familiar with the lakes you mentioned.
We like to fish the Petaluma and Napa rivers for stripers. Had great luck the last few weeks on the Napa.
Pretty smoky right now but the fish don't know that. Except the ones that meet us that is.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

saw1 wrote:

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Welcome to the Forum, LW. There is nothing wrong with eating smoked fish, Saw.

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

Spiritof27 wrote:

Never fished Montana, but I've spent a lot of time in the Sierras. Where do you like to go? I hear you on that age thing. Lots of places I used to go to I can't easily get to any more. Not safe with a bad back and poor balance. You know what I'm takin about.

I do know what you mean I worked hard at not getting old, but I guess not hard enough.
I have spent a lot of time fishing in many places in the Sierra's. The lakes that I like are, wrights lake in El Dorado County. I've also finished at Union Valley and icehouse. Hard to remember all the Lakes and rivers that I have fish up there.

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

flyguy wrote:

Welcome to the Forum, LW. There is nothing wrong with eating smoked fish, Saw.

Yeah I'm been known to smoke salmon. You can really get A high from it.

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

saw1 wrote:

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Most of my shore fishing has been at reservoirs that do not allow boats or swimming here in Marin County.
But when I am off to other areas like the Sierras I fish from my float tube. That has been my boat for about 30 years now. Right now I am going through some crazy stuff in my life. There is A good chance I well hopefully get myself an aluminum boat by next Spring. I'm hoping that the next few months I will be able to move back to where I consider Home in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I'm really not a flatlander at heart and the S.F. Bay area is driving me nuts these days.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Little Wolf wrote:

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Where in Sierras did you call home? Where do you want to move to now?

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

Well I have my sites set on a place called grizzly Flats that's in El Dorado County. If not there my second choice would be pollock Pines also El Dorado County. I like being at about three two 4000 feet in elevation. That puts me at Snow line and above the Tool fog in Sacramento Valley.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Little Wolf wrote:

Well I have my sites set on a place called grizzly Flats that's in El Dorado County. If not there my second choice would be pollock Pines also El Dorado County. I like being at about three two 4000 feet in elevation. That puts me at Snow line and above the Tool fog in Sacramento Valley.

Those are both good options. Good luck brother.

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

thank you

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Have you ever fished Girle Creek Reservoir? It's below Loon Lake, it's rather small, it's not stocked, but there's a healthy brown trout population in it that spawns up Girle Creek (oddly enough). Perfect for a float tube - no boats with motors allowed. Not that far from Ice House and Union Valley if you're up that way. It's a totally wild trout population and they can be very wary and tough to catch. No restrictions that I know of on what you can use for bait or hooks, none of that. Folks on here have talked about trolling with a fly rod - this is one of my favorite places to do that from my tube and drag around a crawler or a woolybugger, they like both.

Little Wolf Loc: Marin County California

Wow, you just stirred a lot of memories. My dad had a chance to get a cabin on girle Creek. That was the regrette he had the rest of his life.
I have not fished the reservoir there but now that you brought it up I'm itching to go there. I love floating around in my tube fishing. I have also caught a lot the Fish on a woolly bugger. A few years back I was tubing on salmon Lake and having Great time catching Fish. Some teenagers we're fishing from a float dock catching nothing, they asked me what I was using and I said a woolly bugger. They said to me if you do not want to tell us what you're using don't lie to us. I wonder if they ever truly learn how to fish.