As I sit here tonight (2/17/11), the temperature is 31 degrees, there is two inches of snow on the ground and the Lower Yuba has gone from 2000cfs to over 4000cfs, which includes a huge amount from Deer Creek.  Not a whole lot of fishing going on right now!

I spent the afternoon tying red, black and chartreuse Copper Johns, since Pat and I ran out last weekend.  The job has gotten a lot easier now that I don’t have to use epoxy.  Clear Cure Goo, which is cured by ultraviolet light, is much simpler and quicker to use.  Rather than having to mix up several different batches of epoxy to do two dozen flies, the entire two dozen can be done one right after another.  I don’t think I’ll ever go back to epoxy.

Dennis Carlsen with a Lower Yuba Brown taken last week

The Fly Fishing Show will be held at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds February 25,26,and 27th.  As was as I am concerned, this is the best fly fishing show on the West Coast.  If you can make it-do it!  See you there!

Yes, that’s a brown caught on the Lower Yuba above the Highway 20 Bridge.  I understand that there have been a few others caught this spring.

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