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Mokelumne River 3-8-10
Published on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:35 | | 
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Ted Nahhas and I floated the Lower Mokelumne with Bill Heger on Monday February 22, 2010. It was a cold and dreary day and the fish were not very cooperative.
We tried throwing everything but the kitchen sink at them, but the bite did not turn on until after lunch. We were below the Highway 88 before we found willing fish. The hatchery juvenile steelhead were still present and was mostly what we caught. We caught most of them nymphing on black Copper Johns and a few on Micro Mayflies.
We were on the water about 9:00 AM and fished until 5:30PM. A nasty wind came up in the afternoon and we raced the storm to get off the water before the rain hit. We managed to get the boat out and secured and were in the truck when it started to sprinkle. Not bad timing at all.
Don't miss Ted's Take after the jump!
Bill giving Ted a few pointers
Mokelumne River Trip 2-22-10
Published on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:32 | | | | Hits: 601
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Craig Martini and I floated the Lower Mokelumne with Bill Heger on Monday February 22, 2010. It was a beautiful day and the fish were very willing.
We lost track of the number of fish that we caught, let's just say it was probably well over 50 fish landed between the two of us. The hatchery at Camanche had turned out a lot of 8-10" juvenile steelhead, and it was all we could do to hook something larger between the little guys grabbing our flies. We caught them swinging buggers on sink-tips, we caught them nymphing on red Copper Johns as well as blue Copper Johns. They were spread out from the launch point to the takeout at Mackville, and probably lower. I managed to land a few fish between 12-15" amongst the juveniles and I lost one large fish that was much bigger. I never got a real good look at him, but he was definitely heavier than anything else I hooked.
We were on the water about 10:00 AM and fished until 5:30PM. A very enjoyable day.
Here are a few pictures:
Craig (rear) and Bill.
Kissing the fish for good luck...
Mokelumne River Float 7-27-2009
Published on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 01:00 | | | | Hits: 928
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My friend Ben and I floated the Mokelumne River on Monday with Bill Heger, Owner of Bill Heger Guide Service. We put in below Camanche and floated down to the Mackville Road takeout.
Ben is just getting into fly fishing and Bill did an excellent job helping Ben learn some of the finer points. Ben landed his first fish on a dry fly as well as his first fish on a nymph.
Upper Mokelumne Trip Report 8-25-08
Published on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 09:04 | | | | Hits: 1299
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My friend Bill and I fished the North Fork of the Mokelumne below Salt Springs Reservoir on Monday afternoon 8/25/08. I had previously fished this stretch with some friends from the Diablo valley Fly Fishers for teh trout opener back in 2005, but I had not been back since. The flow was much lower this time, 30-40 CFS instead of 1200! Bill and I managed to catch a mixture of Rainbow Trout and Brown trout on dry flies, with Bill catching 5 to every 1 of mine!
Lower Mokelumne Trip Report 7-6-08
Published on Monday, 07 July 2008 09:14 | | | | Hits: 1151
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I fished the Mokelumne River yesterday with my friend, and fellow AFF Member, Bill Heger. We launched his drift boat at his friend Jim's house, just below the park at Camanche and floated down to the Mackville Road take out. I met Bill at the takeout and drove back up to Jim's. When we arrived streamside there were fish rising to something. We fished there with Jim for an hour and a half with Jim being the only one to have his fly touched (he landed 2 or 3 on a Griffith's Gnat). I was using the same fly, thought I am not sure if they were the same size, and I didn't get a bump. We gave up right about the time Jim had to go back in the house for a phone call ~08:30.