Any advice for the Mammoth Lake area???

sebastien · Aug-03-2006, 12:01 PM

Hi guys,

Just would like some advice about the Mammoth Lake area ( it will be my 1 st time) we will stay at the Tamarack lodge for my wife birthday and will have a guide for one day. But then we would like to do some fishing on the front of the lodge by ourself (I will have my canoe)
what kind of gear do you recomand , sinking line, floating??
what kind of flies??

Thanks for the help

Rawkon · Aug-04-2006, 05:53 PM

stop at Ricks they will hook you up. Ricks is in mammoth cuty on the left hand side. (going to twin lakes) There is the twin lakes special that works great up there. That with some sinking line stripped in slow will hook you up.

I will be up there this thursday through sunday fishing the upper twin

TheShark · Aug-09-2006, 12:07 AM

You can also make the trip up to Bridgport or down to Crowley. It is a little bit of a drive though.
I am in from the boat all this week and then we head up to Crowley on Friday.
Let me know if you want more info on those lakes

Have fun!

Rawkon · Aug-09-2006, 08:32 PM

Do you have any info on Twin???

screaming_spool · Aug-10-2006, 09:45 AM

if you have or rent afloat tube slow trolled nightcrawlers kill the fish in upper twin. rt over the weeds

Monday Clubber · Aug-10-2006, 09:52 AM

We just got back from Mammoth area. We slayed at Convict lake. The Alpers wanted to die! They liked the wet fly there. We camped on the San Joaquin River at Mineret Falls campground. They plant rainbows often there! I prefer fishing the dry fly and there was a caddis hatch every evening while we were there, the fish were going crazy!!! On the dry fly they bit the PMD, Mosquito and Elk Hair caddis! Dry fly fishing we will get you german browns not the rainbows. Two guys working the river from Upper Soda down told me they had 60 fish between them on wet flies, mostly rainbows. The river is hot all the way from Upper soda to pumice flats. The one place I did not bring my rod and I was kicking myself was Devil's Postpile. There was some GREAT looking areas to toss a fly, the river widens out and there were some good looking holes!
Good luck to you! Let us know how you do!!!

PLEASE visit Joe Contaldi, Owner and Guide,. Performance Anglers, Mammoth Lakes, CA. He is a good guy and we've been fishing with him for 15 years. He'll definatly steer you right!

sebastien · Aug-10-2006, 03:55 PM

Thanks guys,

Specially Rawkon , if you see a Nissan Altima with a wooden canoe on the roof come to join us we could fit 3 people and a dog in this boat!!!!

But when you 're talking about sinking line do you think about wet flies or streamers??? because I have a good collection of streamers really heavy with lead cores and shiny white body, plus a white bucktail wing and until now I've been pretty succesfull with them....

Maybe see you in the water

PS we stay at the Tamarrack Lodge cabin n 33

Steve K · Aug-11-2006, 07:02 PM

You should get all the advice you need from you guide. Good call on Performance Anglers. One of their top guides is Steve Osterman. I've known him for almost 20 years. He's a great guy. Their shop is located in the L shaped shopping center at the corner of 203 and Old Mammoth Road.

Monday Clubber · Aug-12-2006, 09:23 PM

We all seem to agree that performance anglers is great

sebastien · Aug-14-2006, 11:37 AM

Thanks guy for all your answers...
Just come back from the montains, Saturday Crawley was really bad due to the full moon fish were feeding during the night not to mutch action, just manage 1 football size rainbow in 5 hours....

Then we ent to the San Joackin River my wife kicked my ass 8 fishs and 2 brooks just get 5 fish it was for her birthday that's why!!!
On sunday took the canoe out at Twin lakes around 5h00 because I couldn t sleep, really bad day no action and nobody catch anything dam moon!!!!

Anyway Tom is a great guide, great teacher and cheap!!!

Rawkon · Aug-15-2006, 06:02 PM

I got back on sunday afternoon and fished twin most of the time, Lots of stockers were cuaght using the twin lakes special, and common lures. no big ones this year. the guys catching lots of fish were using power worms. I caught a few using lip ripperz. but i agree with you the moon killed most of the bite. oh well next time. I was on the lake sunday morning till about 10am. We were the two guys in float tubes on the lake. (only two in the morn)

dansan · Aug-15-2006, 06:22 PM

hey Gawkon- I call BS! I saw your wife handing fish off to ya!!