Fishing on the East Walker has been excellent this week

East Walker River (CA) - Bridgeport, CA


by Jim Reid
5-13-2012
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The flows on the EW have been bumped yesterday to 105 cfs. The fishing has been excellent this past week! I haven't heard anything about streamers and very little on dries, but the nymphing has been very good. Small midges are still the norm but we are starting to see some caddis coming off the last couple days. Fish are spread out quite a bit so you can find them in the deeper pools, under cutbanks as well as in the riffle water.

Patterns to try include zebra midge, disco midge, flashback emerger, soft emerger, rainbow warrior, silver streak, fox's caddis poopah, z-wing caddis and 3 wire caddis. We've been getting mixed reports from the Rosachi section, some days are good and others not so good. It seems it's been much more consistent on the Sceirine and the Cali sections.