Middle Owens River

Rocky Taylor with a torpedo of a rainbow!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters

by Tom Loe
1-28-2018
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Release rates doing the Yo-Yo as of late. Back to a trickle and flowing at 75cfs. The bulk of the fish will seek the deepest pools at this level. A fair amount of riffle water will be to shallow for fish to stage in during the hatches, so focus on the larger pools, & their respective tail outs. The baetis hatch comes off after noon most days, with some blanket midge emergences appearing too. Drifting has been very good for numbers of smaller planted rainbows and browns with a few bigs showing in the counts most days. We are currently limited in our runs due to low water. Smaller perch fry patterns like our #16 Punk Perch in the afternoons during the BWO hatch is a good call. Make sure you have some #16/18 adult baetis (BWO) patterns handy for the mayfly hatch. The adults come off in the foam, & hide in it while their wings are drying. Keep your imitations high and dry with frequent use of desiccant.  This should be a memorable season for surface action. Nymph the deeper pools, & slots using Assassins, flashback pheasant tails, broken back midges, olive crystal caddis larva, & olive larva patterns. Hot streamers on the drift boat trip have been Spruce-A-Bu’s and Loebergs, with the parallel Punk Perch getting grabs during the hatch. High-vis BWO adults and a dropper mayfly nymph profile can be deadly just prior to; & during the hatch. Fish your dry/dropper rig in the deeper riffle water, or along the foam lines leading into the pools.

Natalie also scored some nice ones! The couple did very well on the river.
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Largemouth Bass
Beau Brower got a nice surprise while pulling streamers with Tom Loe! This largemouth bass was on the prowl!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Common Carp
David won the tug-O-war with this chunky carp he got on a Loeberg.
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Jake even got the browns going!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Hrag Hamalian opted to fish with his wife Natalie instead of skiing on a busy weekend!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Rick Rattle got several of these trophy rainbows along with two dozen other bows and browns on his drift with Doug Dolan.
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Here’s Matt displaying a solid Owens rainbow!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Matt Schubert with a nice colored up brown while fishing with Tom Loe!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
Kelly Liebhart with a nice brownie he fooled using a Loeberg streamer. The father and son duo brought/C & R, over 150 trout to net in four days fishing several fisheries!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters
David Liebhart got this sweet rainbow on a Spruce-A-Bu streamer, & followed it up with another the next cast!
Photo Credit: Sierra Drifters


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Sierra Drifters Reports
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