December 24, 2022
Plans are ever evolving and after deciding to hit the Kern I get a text that due to back pain my fishing partner cancelled. That was fine and let him know if he wakes up in the morning feeling better we ought to try a local instead. By 6am I receive a text and we made plans to head out later in the morning. Initially we were to fish an easy to access river that I fished on my last outing but decided to go further into the San Gabes to an area we tried to fish last year only to be stopped by a road closure.
The last time we fished this place was in 2012 and it was loaded with fish. Although just about every place you thought they'd be fish it yielded a fish. Fish ranged in the smaller range for that time with fish up to 10 inches with Chul spotting a 14 in an impossible to fish crisscrossed fallen branches. Now with the drought hitting us hard those days are long over. We'd manage a few fish here and there. I'd be more rises and swipes at my fly than actual hook ups. Most fish were in the dink to micro-dink range with one or two fish in the 6-7 range.
We started at the parking lot and fish were there. I landed one, a dink, on the first few casts. Chul called me up and told me to fish a pool he spotted a nice fish. I missed that fish as the sun's glare off the water was blinding me. We'd moved upstream into the canyon and while on the trail found the wreckage of a small plane. I could only find the wing and nothing else. We did find some holiday appropriate mistletoe as well.
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