Will March be the best month on "Hot Creek"?

Hot Creek - Mammoth Lakes, CA (Mono County)


by Tom Loe
3-1-2012
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We will be on Hot Creek in March a bunch as I believe it is perhaps the best month to fish adult mayflies here. Flows are low and the weed beds are making extended drifts difficult in some sections currently. This can change quickly as the run-off from Mammoth Creek will swell and increase when it warms up some at elevation. There will be some ice and snow down in the canyon for a while after these last storms but the sun gets higher day by day in March and it will not last long. Midges in the morning, mayflies afternoon. SJ worms also fool some fish if there is nothing emerging.

Look at this rainbow, pictures above "flagging" its dorsal fins and ruby red at Hot Creek now, wild trout are amazing ehhh?