My friend Mike and I went on a 12 hour turnaround trip to
Cottonwood, Lone Pine, George's and Independence Creeks
yesterday. The weather was outstanding and the fishing was slow
but fun. Talked to a few locals who told us the DFG refused to
stock in a lot of places because the water was so low and slow
the raccoons and birds would have all the fish before the people
could get to them. They did stock a few of the sand traps and I
suppose Diaz Lake was crammed full of fishies for the tournament
2 weeks ago. The sand trap at George's creek has no water
running into or out of it. We caught 3 fish there that were
holdovers from last year. Independence creek at the lower
campground was not stocked at all. We went on up to the
confluence of Pinion creek and Indy creek at the sand trap and
there was about a hundred stockers there. We caught 3 or 4 fish
there. After a late lunch we went to Cottonwood creek at the
trailhead to the Golden Trout Wilderness. It's a lovely area in
the canyon. Kind of hard to fish because o