San Diego & SoCal Fishing Forums

Did my now yearly, go hike your legs off and find a creek with trout. Searched the google for a new creek and landed on 1 that looked like it should have water. With the recent rain, i deff had some water moving. First few pools didnt have anything swimming around that i could see and i wasnt getting bites but kept going up the creek till i started to see some 2-3" fish zipping around. The further i went the better the pools and fish got, eventually landing fish as i went. Landed a total of ~15 fish, 4"~12" long on the green and brown nymph. There was alot more bug activity that i thought there would be and saw quite a few fish eat stuff off the surface and had a lot of fish smack the indicator. If the hike wasn't so brutal, id go back with a dry fly, but i dont think ill be back in this canyon for a bit.

Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.

Great video… Absolutely love doing that kind of fishing.. But my old body won’t let me anymore… I really enjoyed your adventure.. Thank you for posting it..
Butch

Midnightpass wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:18 pm Great video… Absolutely love doing that kind of fishing.. But my old body won’t let me anymore… I really enjoyed your adventure.. Thank you for posting it..
Butch

Im trying to do it while i can. My legs hurt for about a week after that.

Gotfish? wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:04 pm Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.

I rolled in poison oak as a kid and ever sense haven't been too bothered by it but I also haven't seen much of it by the stream and I walked through just about anything in front of me

mcquade outdoors wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:14 pm

Gotfish? wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:04 pm Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.

I rolled in poison oak as a kid and ever sense haven't been too bothered by it but I also haven't seen much of it by the stream and I walked through just about anything in front of me

10-20% of people are not sensitive to it. You might be one of the lucky ones. I am not.

There is this beautiful flower that appears after a fire. Supposed to be even worse than poison oak. I have not experienced it but know of someone that has.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/ ... rdb5318308

Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:23 pm

mcquade outdoors wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:14 pm

Gotfish? wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:04 pm Looks like a lot of work to get there.

Didn't see any poison oak but it's winter time too. I have been along a few streams (while hiking or biking) that are supposed to have wild trout and they have lots of poison oak.

I rolled in poison oak as a kid and ever sense haven't been too bothered by it but I also haven't seen much of it by the stream and I walked through just about anything in front of me

10-20% of people are not sensitive to it. You might be one of the lucky ones. I am not.

There is this beautiful flower that appears after a fire. Supposed to be even worse than poison oak. I have not experienced it but know of someone that has.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/ ... rdb5318308

Note to self, stay away from that bush. Ive seen them before but not along the creeks!

Gotfish? wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:04 pm
There is this beautiful flower that appears after a fire. Supposed to be even worse than poison oak. I have not experienced it but know of someone that has.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/angeles/ ... rdb5318308

That's pretty interesting.. Thanks for posting about it...
Butch

Thanks for posting this. This is one of the situations where you wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze, but interesting for sure. They probably only exist because they are so hard to get to.

What a great adventure! My knees can't do that anymore, but good on you!

Great video takes me back to my younger days when I hiked down below the BIG BEAR LAKE DAM and there were ponds I fished and caught some nice trout, too old, bad knees to do that anymore it was one of those you won’t forget no matter how bad my memory gets, THANKS

Rattus wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 6:46 pmThis is one of the situations where you wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze, but interesting for sure.

I remember being bitten by the fly fishing bug, enough that I would spend every weekend scouting random blue lines, coming home with bumps, bruises, scratches, and wearing down shocks and tires, and brush stripes all over my truck. There would be times where the off roading would take longer than the drive to the 'trail head.' One time, i realized that from the moment i left my house, to the moment i made my first cast, it was almost FOUR hours. At that point, I just started driving to the Kern or BIshop.