Northern California Dreaming

Wahoo!  It’s summer time once again in Cali.  This means JU and the Miracle Squad will be doing a lot of day trips around da mountain.  We took one such trip yesterday.  It took us two hours to get to our initial destination to meet up with best friend “da Wiz.”  It turns out the Season has not opened and the gates were closed to all activities accept hiking!?!  So a hiking we did do, and then some :-)  Realizing that the fishing-door is closed for this location, we went to a different location or rather locations that we have never been to before.  Hence the “California Dreaming” begins… to go to places we haven’t been, two new locations.

According to da Wiz, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) has recently stocked fish in the Silver Fork of the American River near the town of Kyburz, CA.  This is the town that we passed by on Highway 50, on the way to South Lake Tahoe for the past two decades.  Unfortunately, we have never stopped by to smell the roses, in this case, the pine trees.  A short drive later, we found ourselves at China Flat Campgrounds.  We scoped out the place, and discovered a beautiful sandy beach with a swimming hole.  The swimming hole was deserted.  A good tip we gathered from a local is that we should avoid visiting this location on the weekends.  It was around noon, so we picnicked at this location.  While here, Miss Mystic captured a snake having lunch also.  See the video.

After lunch, we decided to scope out another location along Silver Fork Rd.  Wow!  What a fantastic view and a  potentially great spot for a day trip of fishing and hiking.  We witnessed people pulling out fish from this location :-)  We made a mental note that this location is not kid-friendly.  It would be good for the more adventurous of hearts.  Seeing that the T-Storm is brewing, we took off at around 1:30 PM.  We left just in the nick of time, because we caught the tail end of  hail.  We arrived home around 3:30 PM.

What a treasure to be able to enjoy the beauty of Cali so close by.  There are so many more places that we hope to discover this summer, if God’s willing.  Although, I will not post any fish pictures this time, I will report that we caught one beautiful limit of rainbow trout around 12-inch each :-)

Now enjoy the pictures and video:

Whoa!  Is it a big one?

 According to da Wiz: "If a snake can catch fish, what's your excuse?"