LASTING IMAGES FROM SIERRA'S FISHING OPENER.Byline: Brett Pauly Daily News Staff Writer Leftovers from the Eastern Sierra trout-season opener . . . Thaw insurance: It wasn't until 3 p.m. Thursday that the final sheet of ice on Crowley Lake Crowley Lake is a reservoir on the upper Owens River in southern Mono County, California in the United States. It was created in 1941 by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) as storage for the Los Angeles Aqueduct and for flood control. finally broke apart in 50 mph winds. Workers attempted to speed up the process by using boats to break up the ice and propellers to throw water up on the floe to cause it to melt - standard operating procedures standard operating procedure Medtalk A technique, method or therapy performed 'by the book,' using a standard protocol meeting internally or externally defined criteria; a formal, written procedure that describes how specific lab operations are to be performed. for landings facing late thaws. Techniques were a little more bizarre in earlier days. Landing operators used to place black tarps on the ice to expedite a thaw in time for the opening of trout season, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mike Haynie, Department of Fish and Game senior hatcheries supervisor in Bishop. Desperation breeds enterprise, and a boulder was dropped from a plane to create a crack in the ice. The plan met with ``limited success,'' Haynie said. It gets more weird, according to John Frederickson, president of Crowley Lake Fish Camp, which manages the lake's marina and camping facilities. ``Years back somebody was throwing dynamite sticks, and - this isn't a wives' tale - a dog went and fetched it,'' Frederickson said. Tale of the tape: Despite early-morning snow flurries, the trout at Crowley warmed up enough to bite well, especially in the morning. ``It was cold, windy and ugly, but the fishing is still good,'' said Brian Pendarvis of Burbank, part of the ``second wave'' of Crowley anglers. On his way to the water at 6:30 a.m., he was passed by many sporting limits. The first wave caught an average of four fish in two hours, according to DFG DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) DFG Department of Fish and Game DFG District Factor Group DFG Data Flow Graph DFG Difference Frequency Generation DFG Diode Function Generator DFG Dog Faced Gremlin biologist Curtis Milliron. The second wave averaged 3.7 fish in 3-1/2 hours. ``Overall, it was an excellent opener,'' Milliron said. ``Well over the traditional fish-per-hour average.'' Most fish recorded by DFG statisticians Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning: A to E
Close to home: Dozens of five-trout limits at Crowley were taken at the southwest end of Whiskey Bay, just a few hundred feet from the South Landing marina. It proved to be one of the opener's hottest spots. In many cases, rainbows of 3 pounds or heftier were caught by doing nothing more than throwing a ball of Power Bait less than 10 feet from shore. Like father, like son: Long Beach's Pat Bauer is no stranger to Convict Lake Convict Lake (elevation 7,850 feet (2393 m)), is a lake in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada in California, USA. It is known for its fishing and the dramatic mountains (including Mount Morrison) that surround the lake. on opening day. He caught the largest fish during the 1993 opener - a 5.5-pound brown fooled on a night crawler night crawler: see earthworm. at the head of Convict Creek, the lake's outlet. Using the same technique, he caught the largest brown of 1995's opening day - a 6.31-pounder taken at the same place using the same technique. Bauer decided to allow his teen-age son, Paul, share in the wealth Saturday, and the dividends paid off greatly. By noon, Pat had brought a three-rainbow stringer of 11.09 pounds (5.07 pounds the largest) to the scales, while Paul had landed four fish weighed 14.17 pounds (4.04 pounds). ``I said, `Great, fantastic,' '' said David DeSurra, the lake's general manager. ``(Pat) said he was not going to bring his son again since he beat him!'' Not to be outdone out·do tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel. , the father continued fishing and by 3 p.m. took a 3.08-pound 'bow - again from the creek, again on a worm. The final stringer tally for each angler: 14.17 pounds. ``Your kidding me; this is impossible,'' DeSurra said when the last fish titled the scale. ``What are the odds of that?'' Fishing isn't everything: To many opening-day anglers, the amount of fish on their stringer was secondary. ``It doesn't matter if we don't catch anything. It's the essence of just being here - the serenity, the peace, the view . . . and the snow,'' said Agua Dulce's Tracy Cary, who enjoyed a morning of shore-fishing along partially frozen June Lake June Lake is a subalpine lake in Mono County, California, located at at an elevation of 7,612 ft (2320 m). The lake is popular for fishing. with her dog, Timber, and her friend, Ellen Lazares of Toluca Lake. ``It doesn't get any better than this.'' Second-day highlights: Two separate Daily News crews limited out at Crowley on Sunday - one shore-fishing at Whiskey Bay, one trolling (1) Surfing, or browsing, the Web. (2) Posting derogatory messages about sensitive subjects on newsgroups and chat rooms to bait users into responding. (3) Hanging around in a chat room without saying anything, like a "peeping tom." close to the beach southwest of Chalk Cliffs. Daily News staff photographer John McCoy John McCoy may refer to:
Whoppers are chocolate-coated malted milk balls produced by The Hershey Company. : a 4-pound, 10-ounce brown taken on Power Bait and a 3.24-pound rainbow that swallowed a night crawler. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) At Crowley Lake, Sasha Jenkins takes notes and measurements of fish for Department of Fish and Game biologists. John McCoy/Daily News |
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