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Monsters still lurk on the LA
Mayfly Project’s Jane Winer-Miller
caught this absolute beast back in
October on the LA. Pasadena Casting
Club’s Caroline Craven’s fly design turned out to be a real winner!
(Credit: Caroline Craven)

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East Fork continues to produce quality ‘bos
These two snaps, sent in anonymously, show the East Fork is back to producing healthy trout. The joy of lots of flowing water continues, with turbidity receding.
A hand-size Rainbow Trout caught on the East Fork of the San Gabriel River.
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How else to spend a sizzling hot Labor Day?
YES, HAPPY: New fly fisher Arnold Henry-John hoists 26 inches of carp, caught on the first cast at an undisclosed location. (Credit: Debbie Sharpton)
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Oh, what a feeling! First LA River carp catch
FINALLY! says Karen Barnett, Trout Unlimited South Coast Chapter Treasurer, of her first LA River carp caught on the fly Sunday. (Courtesy Bob Blankenship)
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Dang! Local Salmo Trutta (Not Montana; not April Fools)

 

Hold the (cell) phone! This huge brown was caught by local teen angler Greg Krohn close to Pasadena. (Credit: Greg Krohn)

By Greg Krohn

Guest Contributor

On Columbus Day, 2019 (school holiday), I shot off to the nearby mountains to fish for a few hours.  Location is intentionally left ambiguous, but is within a 30-mile radius of Pasadena.

Of note, an informed forest ranger (???) indicated that there were no fish in the creek I was intending to fish.

Well, for absolute transparency, that was the forest ranger’s statement three years ago.

In any case, the brown trout caught using a small streamer was 17 to 18 inches.  I caught and released one other brown trout in that same drainage three years ago, that was about 8-inches.

How fast can they grow?!!!!

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Life finds a way …

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Trout Unlimited’s Bob Blankenship sent in this amazing photo he took. Here’s what he said: I was at the lower LA in South Gate a couple weeks ago, around Hollydale Park. I walked down into the river channel – the dystopian part where there’s nothing expect a hundred-yard-wide concrete slab. I wanted to check out the low flow channel there and as I walked upstream I came upon a fish – about 18 inches of carp that was headed who-knows-where? There’s about two miles downstream of concrete channel and probably eight miles upstream. Life finds a way, right?

See you on the river, Jim Burns

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How about fall fishing on the LA?

Justin Carp
Pasadena Casting Club Conservation Chair Justin Bubenik savors his first carp on the LA. Oh, what a feeling!

Atwater Park Carp
And Scott Boller, also of PCC, brought this fine Golden Ghost to the rip rap on the same weekend day.

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LA River carp catch, three years in the making

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HOW STOKED do you get when you waited three years for that first carp? About this stoked! (courtesy @fishshootbrew)

By Analiza del Rosario

Guest Contributor

I’ve been fishing the LA River for more than three years with no luck, so I certainly had no expectations to catch one this time.
I only had two hours to fish and I was a bit distracted since I had to prepare for a meeting.
I got on the phone with my office while continuing to cast when I suddenly felt a tug and I screamed!

Since I had just lost one prior to hooking this one, I made sure I set the hook properly. I continued to scream while Celine @fishshootbrew started walking up with her big Rhino net, ready to assist.  I was shocked to eventually land on, with so much excitement, I fell backwards!

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HEY, WHO you lookin’ at? (Courtesy @fishshootbrew)

I had so much emotions going through me, but In the end, the best part of catching my very first carp was not landing the fish, but the adventure that got me out to the river, even for just a few hours! It was the best experience!
I was at the The Fisherman’s Spot the day before to buy flies and leaders, so they were all rooting for me.
Although, Celine also gave me flies she tied. I’m not sure if the one I bought from the Spot or one the Celine made caught my fly because they both gave me the same exact one.  All in all, I lost five flies, lost two fish and landed this small one.
Hubert Crawford commented on LA River carp catch, three years in the making
My buddy AnaLiza! She’s super cool!! H. Carl Crawford >
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Nothing like that first LA River carp …

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According to the guys at Fishermen’s Spot, this was Olivia Elia’s first time and first carp catch on the Los Angeles River. Way to go! (Courtesy Fishermen’s Spot)