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DAS26miles
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Jul 07, 2015

Any fishing in Yosemite Valley with drought?

We are heading up with family to Yosemite Valley. Kind of late in the season to try fishing along with the drought. I don't know if there is any water running in the valley.

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  • I have not been to the Valley since March, but I can tell you that we saw a lot of good-sized trout in the high country last week, in the general vicinity of Tuolumne Meadows. It's a lot cooler up there, too!

    Have a great trip, in any event!
  • Never heard of the barbless hooks until today. Shows how much I fish. Great idea! I already had bought some small trout rubber or vinyl plastic lures or jigs or what ever you call them that have barbed hooks. I went online and found how easy it was to remove the barb with needle nose pliers and a small file. No barbs now. Do these debarred (barbless) qualify as legal for Yosemite barbless?
    I am going to do this to all my salt water hooks as I am a catch and release fisherman ( and I use the term very loosely).
  • There's 'sport' in fishing barbless and catch and release. :) Anybody can dunk a hot dog.
  • We left the same day and there was a lot of water in the river. But it's barbless hooks and catch and release. For me, that doesn't have much of an attraction. I'd rather go up to Twin Lakes and be able to eat what I catch.
  • We left Yosemite on June 8 and the river was very fishable. I imagine it is going down rapidly.

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