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August 16, 2008 - Clint Barton

I fished this morning above Georgetown Country Club. I used my float tube and kicked about 1/2 a mile up the river and back. I caught a few small sunfish, 4 long ear sunfish in the 8-9" range, and four bass. The bass were 8", 10", 14" and one really heavy 18" largemouth. It was cloudy and a little cooler and the water was comfortable. At the upper end it was about waist deep.

November 15, 2008 - Don Johnson

The hiking trail crosses the river on a low water bridge just below the dam at Chandler Park. I fished downstream from this bridge to a few hundred yards past the next place where the hiking trail crosses the river (at the footbridge where our Adopt-a-river plaque is mounted). There is a wide place in the river by the Georgetown Country Club where the Middle Fork flows into the North Fork. The hiking trail passes close to the river at this spot, and as I was fishing there a fellow with a camera and tripod paused on the hiking trail and asked if I minded if he took my picture. I said OK, so he set up the tripod on the river bank and took a few photos; I hope he caught one of my few tight loops.

When I was fishing the portion of the river that borders the Georgetown Country Club golf course I heard a golfer yell “Fore!!”. The last time the San Gabriel Fly Fishers did a river cleanup we gathered at least 50 golf balls from this part of the river, and when I heard that “Fore!”, I remembered those golf balls and looked up to check for an incoming ball, but it didn’t make it to the river, so I was safe.

I caught between 10 and 15 sunfish and one little 10 inch bass. A few of the sunfish were in the 8 inch range and were able to put a good bend into my 4 weight rod. Most of the larger sunfish came from a single spot about 50 yards downstream from the second hiking trail footbridge. There is a rock in the river not far from the north bank with a little current flowing between the rock and tree roots along the bank. I caught two or three nice sunfish when I fished this spot going downstream and two or three more on my way back upstream. In the spot where my photo was taken I saw several active small bass darting around and pushing up humps on the shallow water, but I was able to catch only one of them.

Everything was caught on a black and olive wooly buggers tied on 1/64 oz jig head hooks. The flow in the North Fork below the dam was only about 4.5cfs; I don’t know how much extra was added in by the Middle Fork and by springs. The water was clear, and the wading was easy.

October 31, 2007 - Don Johnson

I fished from about 1:00PM till about 5:00PM. There was a cloudless high blue sky with temperature in the low seventies. The water was quite clear; the flow was about 10cfs; I don’t know the water temperature. It was quite nice to see the river back to normal after the unusual summer rains and the extended high release from Lake Georgetown. I fished upstream past the point where the running water of the river meets the slack water backed up by the dam (a little over six tenths of a mile, according to Google Earth), then fished back down. The afternoon sun put the west bank into shade, so I fished that bank almost exclusively. On the way up I fished with a #6 olive wooly bugger and caught a lot of sunfish, mostly small but several in the seven to eight inch range. On the way back down I switched to a #6 black wooly bugger. I continued to catch sunfish, though at a slower rate, and I also caught 4 bass. The larger two of the bass were, by river standards, pretty nice fish. The bass were caught in the upper half of the lake.

October 23, 2006 - Don Johnson

I fished from about 8:00 a.m. to about noon, and caught only one fish - a 5 inch sunfish.