East walker river

I want to the eastern sierras for a few days with the family but made time to hit the east walker river each morning before the wife and kids were up and running.

I had a tough time on the river due to so much grass and moss. It made fishing conditions super tough and half the time I don't know if the fish could even see my flies. Despite the tough conditions I still got into some fish. I hooked into a few nice bows and browns that came off and had another nice brown snap me when he ran my Tippett against some rocks. A few average size browns and rainbows made it to the net but I did get a little dry fly action in one morning too.

I came to a big hole and found a few fish rising late in the morning. A few casts later and I had a solid rainbow and brown to the net. All in all the fishing was decent on the walker but conditions made it tough to present the flies decent to the fish. Going far down stream to the faster water fishing tight to the holes behind boulders was the most consistent way of hooking into some fish. A size 12 stonefly up top and an 18 jujubaetis below was my best nymph set up. They mostly hit the baetis. I had some great video of the trip but my gopro decided it didn't want to save everything properly so I have to go through and see what video I have left.

River flows dropped a lot down to below 80cfs while I was there and it was hot but the water stayed cool enough for the fish until about 10. It started raising quick after that.

Dang those are beautiful fish!    Great pics!  Thanks for sharing! 

very nice, whenever I drive by I think - that looks fishy!

Some nice fish...under tuff conditions, way to make good on it.

Very purdy fish.

And GoPro sucks!