The summertime temperatures here are usually about 10 degrees higher than in the June Lake Loop, so it can get pretty toasty out there, especially if there's no wind.

Therefore, we will pick and choose the days we fish it.

During the last trip, we were seeing and catching a few more browns, mostly with Stimulators of various sizes and colors cast upstream hopper style or swinging and stripping caddis patterns downstream.

The flow in the Upper varies depending on how much water LADWP is sending from Grant Lake via a tunnel system. Right now it's at 78 cfs, dropping from about 120 cfs a week ago, so we'll see if this results in any water temperature rise along with the higher summer heat.

We're hopeful, like the past couple of years, that we see a run of bigger browns come up sometime this month.