The Local Fish'n Hole

Sometimes fly fishing in SoCal requires getting into places you wouldn't see in any fly fishing magazine. The target for the day is carp in the concrete river. Many a fly fishers travel a long ways to get into this local fishing hole. The prize catch of a ten or fifteen pound carp really gets the blood pumping and not to mention really puts a hell of a bend onto a fly rod.

It's a easy ten minute drive from down town LA, or it could be an half hour depending on traffic, what would you expect it's Los Angeles.

Once on the river you'll be greeted by all the wonderful trash some of the angelinos toss onto the streets. From the streets it makes it's way down storm drains and into the concrete river bed. It really is sad to see so much trash down in the river bed. I guess some people are just to lazy to put trash into a waste basket.

Now lets get back to the fly fishing. I roll with a 8wt with WF floating line. My leader is pretty much straight 8 lb mono. The fly of choice is a yellow egg cluster. I have no clue who started using it first but the fly works great.

Many people laugh or are grossed out by the thought of fly fishing in the concrete river. All I could say is then don't fish it and leave the fish to those that will. This is not a River Run Through It, better said, is on the teeshirt from the Fisherman's Spot that reads, A Sewer Runs Through it, the LA River.

Catch you on the water,
The SoCal FlyFisher