Found: Fly Reel on Lower Owens C&R section 3/26

[Tim P]

Found Sat Mar 26th 2016 mid-morning. I suppose that means it was lost Friday or earlier.

Off Chalk Bluffs Rd E Side about halfway down the year round C&R section.

Reel is easily identified by make/model and other distinguishing characteristics.

Describe it to me and you get it back; I'll call a few shops too.

Might take a bit for me to get back to this post - I'm still up on the E Slope.

cheers

Tim

[WanderingBlues]

Very kind of you!

[John Harper]

Yes, thanks for being a good citizen.

John

[Tim P]

FWIW, the exact location where it was found was

N 37° 24.634' W 118° 27.827'

Which is sort of midway between turnouts #9 and #10 (Until today I didn't even know they were numbered).

It was lying smack in the middle of a cow-path, so I assume it fell out of an angler's pack and they never noticed.

I suck as a trout angler, btw.

I've been all over the last couple days - LO / UO (Long Ears & BS) / Upper Gorge / Middle Gorge and few fish to show for it.

The shop guy said "don't bother with the UO" and so I ignored his advice only to find out he was right. I did get to see some enormous rainbow spawners in closed waters ((Deadman Cr) That was really cool to watch - I've seen salmon driving subordinate males off a redd holding a female, but haven't seen rainbows doing it. The most shocking thing was size of those fish - all bigger than 22" and the big male pushing 28".

I am doing my part keeping the fly sellers in business though - I lost an unreasonable number of nymphs today - snags, tree branches, and even the occasional fish getting me wrapped on stuff within 100 milliseconds of an eat.

[WanderingBlues]

Well, *, karma should be flowing back to you. Go hit the Gorge and get that mojo back.