High Meadows Club re-opens

High Meadows Club will re-open on October 22, 2007. The drought isn't over but the high daily temperatures are behind us. Water temp as of October 16 was 54 degrees. Generally, the Tick is running at low water level. Read on for news about the Lower section.

Reservations are currently being accepted for both club members and non-club members. Though we did lose some fish over the summer months to the high water temps, we have seen a good number of trophy size holdover trout. They survived in the numerous deep holes in the creek. We have also replaced the fish that we did lose in both the Upper and Lower sections of water. Keep in mind that we only introduce reproducing Rainbows (i.e. no triploids) into our water. All resident Browns and a wild strain of Rainbows are native to The Tick.

In the Lower section, for those of you that have fished our water before, Beat 2 is currently running at full pool. The reason... beavers have built a sizable dam which is located at the Beat 1/Beat 2 sign. Nearly all of Beat 2 is backed up with a considerable amount of water. The fish are loving it! However, your fishing tactics will have to be adjusted to fish this beat successfully. Top water flies and woolly buggers/streamers are a couple of suggestions. You may even want to consider using a sink tip line. Be careful wading in this area as you may go over your waders.

The landowners have agreed to retain the beaver dam until we get sufficient rain to bring the creek up to more nomal levels. So, in other words, the beaver dam is staying for a while.

Fishing is back to near normal conditions until next summer. Current pictures of Beat 2 including the beaver dam are included in this blog.

Tightlines,

Ken