Virginia Lakes Fish Report for 7-11-2009
Virginia Lake Fish Report
Virginia Lakes - Bridgeport, CA (Mono County)
by Carolyn Webb
7-11-2009
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Another great week of breezy days, one day of
wind, a full moon, and loads of bugs blowing into
the water making it a virtual buffet for
trout. Some high clouds moved through today and
fishing was terrific, but catching slowed to a
crawl unless you used your best method for
inflated crawlers or pink power worms with a
pinch of power bait on the eye of the hook.
The Hong group did well from a boat this
afternoon and even caught a couple of the elusive
browns that were stocked over a month ago. These
browns are crafty little guys that seem to think
they can hold out the summer, but the natural bait will get 'em every time.
Backcountry fishing has been fair to good on
small dry flies and Mepp's, Panther Martin's and
silver/red Super Dupers in Blue, Cooney and big Frog lakes.
Fly anglers did ok on streamers, and some even
used a Grey Hackle Peacock sub-surface as an
emerger. There was a terrific mayfly hatch early
evening, along with the normal amount of
mosquitoes taking over and small midges.
Talked to a few anglers that did well on salmon
eggs, but the best was inflated crawlers and meal
worms. Nothing of any size has surfaced since
stocking both Big and Little Virginia with Alpers
trout so if you are catching any at Big, please
stop by the Lodge and give us a shout, as Tim
would like to know how they are doing. There
were over 15 tubers on Big V today and 37 cars,
so there must be some attraction up there and
hope it's the Alpers. Get a big one and bring it
in for weight and get your name on our board.
DFG is still stocking weekly and we are grateful
we have not been skipped with the current
situation of the state budget shortfall. See you on the water....carolyn
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