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The last couple of weeks have been busy what with fishing and photography. Last weekend, I took a three day photography workshop, sponsored by Blue Fountain Farms, given by Gregg Albracht from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Gregg is known for his horse photography. We visited several horse farms around Nevada County and got to photograph horses loose in their pastures as they ran by us. We were also treated to riding demonstrations and worked with a model. Part of the workshop included critics of the prior days photos which has been a considerable help in improving my photographs. A great time was had by all!
Largemouth Bass
The bass fishing has been good over the last couple of weeks. We have spent a considerable amount of time on smaller water with both top water and underwater flies (nymphs and streamers). As I type this, however, a new front is moving in along with both rain at the lower elevations and snow expected in the mountains, again. That will probably slow the bass fishing for a couple of days until it warms.
Pat and I made a trip up along the North Yuba on a combination fishing and photography expedition. The main purpose of the drive up was to take pictures of the blooming dogwood trees with little hope of finding fishable water. The Dogwood blooms were out in full force and I took a number of photos but we needed to fish so we started to look around.
Dogwood
The North Yuba is running about three thousand cfs with higher peaks in the afternoon as the run-off increases during the day. Definitely not comfortable fly fishing! Fiddle Creek and Goodyear Creek, were both high and cold eliminating those two from fishing consideration. However I did have an “ace in the hole”. We drove to a small creek that drains a limited amount of snow country and “eureka” it was fishable. We dragged out the three weight rods, geared up and gave it a try. The rainbows weren’t large but they were active and we had a great time using dries and dries with droppers. At least it was a start on the Sierra season.
Unnamed Creek
In my opinion, depending on consistent warm weather, it will be at least another 30 days before we can hope to be fly fishing on the North Yuba.