It’s the time of year when pumpkin pie starts sounding good, but regardless of what the calendar says cherry pie always tastes good. I’m a lot like a rainbow trout in this regard. I’ll explain. Just outside of Angels Camp, Camp 9 Road meanders back into the foothills and eventually traces part of what used to…
Tag: Kokanee salmon
No need to get snappy
I was ready for the end of trout season in October. Well, I don’t think anyone is really ready, so maybe mentally prepared would be a better way to articulate the feeling. There are rivers open year-round, but the close easy trout water is shut down or snowed in. It is because of this that…
Making up for lost trout
I know you’re not supposed to get too personal when it comes to fishing, but there was something about that silver brick flashing right before it threw the hook that made me want to go back to that trout’s riffle the next morning regardless of the winter weather warning. I had established Angels Camp as…