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Hello steelieslayer, glad you're getting some on the water days.
Any size on the rock bass?

Trout on the North opens May 23rd this year to the best of my
reading skills. It's hard to decipher...

Thanks John, well it already poured
once this morning and rain is in the
forecast for the weekend so the 'bar'
will as seen in the previous post's pics
for a few more days at least. I see more...

These were taken yesterday also
with a different camera...first one
is across from the bar I hiked to..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/100_0053.jpg

The next three are...

This pic is on the trail to 'John's Bar' and
I'm on the other side of the river from the
bluff pics...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01944.jpg

This is a peek through...

On the North Umpqua a couple of
months ago....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01669.jpg

And yesterday...I took the pics with a different setting and in three parts......

Glad you're going to get out after some bass, presumably on Shasta Lake.
Wow, not fished down there since the last time I went to Salt Creek I think it was.
I used to toss the jon in at Lakehead...

Thanks Allen, I'm having a lot of fun messing with the cell camera and have begun taking pics just about everywhere I go near water. Look for pics of a fly fishing expo in the 'Events' column, oh...

Hey Jason, great hearing from you. So were those the green rock bass, or another color?
I remember talking about the cabezon last time.

Did you do any good on the river on your way
back? Oh...

Stepping out onto the prized gravel bar....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01801.jpg

Hiking to the top of the bar....
...

Heading into the brush, glancing back...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01794.jpg

Deeper...

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Here's a few pics of another gravel bar I like...
this place is a little easier to navigate
though there is some brush bustin' involved
if I want to get away from the 'crowds'.

This is where I...

You're welcome John, of course your pics are great
but yes, I have to agree inspiration has
also come from wild one and spinner1.
Others too really...I just felt like I was missing
something...

John, I sure have seen changes in the rivers
I fish now and that I've fished over the years.
I've only been fly fishing the Umpqua drainage
since '92 I think it was when a friend and I first...

This first pic is a place that takes hours of brush busting to get to, so no one ever fly fishes there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01661.jpg

Next, a gravel bar I...

That sounds like something I might have to get into soon. What do you get there steelieslayer?

I've been upriver twice since I saw you last, but
no hookups...din't even see any steel on redds...

Views to a steelhead run...here's a piece of soft water the steelhead
have to navigate on their way upriver:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/MontanaMoose/P_01463.jpg

From there, it's...

.....as a moved away fishing bud used to say. Hello John, well to me the best time to try is anytime the system isn't blown out as there is always something going on. I guess to me the best time is...

Well, the part I can see is flat now and has changed from coffe with cream to a moss and forest green tinge....not quite green tea yet. Yep, there's been some shad runs in the almost 10 years I've...

We do MFTG, because
that area is a lot different during
low river levels, consisting of continuous
rock shelves and drop offs. Very well known
for smallmouth bass holding structure.
Combined...

It sure is John, imagine being able to rock hop there during
low to normal river levels. Neither of us had seen much if any
of this part of the river though. It's mostly private access and this...

Well, the river was blown but there was some fly fishing to be had in some big eddys.
Here's my good buddy working for winter steel
reported to have been making their way upstream:
...