I hooked a real pig yesterday. Never got her to the net, but definitely a really nice fish. In the same hole I caught my biggest from last year and saw a guide pull one that was easily 20″ from there. I’d say they have put on some pounds since last winter.
More lead time next time and I am in. I am still working for a living and need more time to plan. If you can get Don Haber at Born and Raised (Abe’s Fly Shop), he is great. He’s been on the San Juan since ’98.
Has anyone tried to Uber of Lyft from say Lazy L&l to Maricopa? I’m not sure if Uber or Lyft are available along river road reliably enough to use as a way to get back to your boat or vehicle.
If you were a member last year, you can access the “annual” sites now. If you were not a member last year, you cannot access the “annual” sites until Nov 1. The lease membership runs from 11/1 to 10/31 each year.
There are some site that only allow access 11/1 to 3/31 of each year. These are the “seasonal” sites.
My experience from this summer when they started to drop flows is once the water got to above 67 the fishing shut down. You could get one to react and hit a streamer, but it really died off of where it was when they were running more cold water. I’m going to give them a bit more time and let the water get cooler, it will soon.
Most of them appear to be working now. If you scroll down on the Flow page you can see the date and time they last updated with the temp at the time. Temps still look good this morning.
Unfortunately there is a BIG striper in the Mt creek hole along with a couple of gar. Any trout that gets in there is at high risk of being dinner for one of them. The striper tried to eat one I had hooked back in October.