03-16-2003, 05:36 PM
[cool]I just knew I wouldn't get one past ya. Sorry to hear about CAsitas being off limits to tubers. It is probably like Cachuma, farther north. The old "water supply" factor. I tubed it in the olden days, when nobody knew what a float tube was. I guess they finally figured out that if someone stayed out tubing all day, and they weren't wearing waders, that the tuber probably added some additional "nutrients" to the water.
Hey, JR, have you ever fished Isabella? Man, that used to be a great spot for big largies and some great fly flinging for trout too...both in the lake and in the river. Caught some big nasty browns both upstream and downstream in the Kern River. On the lake, during the crappie run, you could tie a tube to one of the trees sticking up in thirty feet of water and catch a hundred or more slabs in a long morning of dunking white marabou jigs.
Got another question too. Have you fished Silverwood for the stripers? They were not in there in my early years, but I understand there are some biggies.
I used to cause myself great stress and unbearable happiness on the forebay of San Luis Reservoir up near the delta. There are some fifty pound plus stripers in there and flinging big streamers with a fairy wand is a deadly way of enticing them. Those babies can pull. And, float tubing is an accepted way of life up there. There are hundreds of spots to launch and fish in the Sacramento River delta area too...for big largies and lots of stripers and such...with salmon and steelhead in the mix a good part of the year. Quite a few tubing clubs up there that have a good handle on things.
So many fish...so little time.
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Hey, JR, have you ever fished Isabella? Man, that used to be a great spot for big largies and some great fly flinging for trout too...both in the lake and in the river. Caught some big nasty browns both upstream and downstream in the Kern River. On the lake, during the crappie run, you could tie a tube to one of the trees sticking up in thirty feet of water and catch a hundred or more slabs in a long morning of dunking white marabou jigs.
Got another question too. Have you fished Silverwood for the stripers? They were not in there in my early years, but I understand there are some biggies.
I used to cause myself great stress and unbearable happiness on the forebay of San Luis Reservoir up near the delta. There are some fifty pound plus stripers in there and flinging big streamers with a fairy wand is a deadly way of enticing them. Those babies can pull. And, float tubing is an accepted way of life up there. There are hundreds of spots to launch and fish in the Sacramento River delta area too...for big largies and lots of stripers and such...with salmon and steelhead in the mix a good part of the year. Quite a few tubing clubs up there that have a good handle on things.
So many fish...so little time.
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