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East Walker River

The East Walker River is an approximately 90 miles (140 km) long, tributary of the Walker River, in eastern California and western Nevada in the United States. It drains part of the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin. From Wikipedia

Length
90 mi
Basin
1,230 sq mi
Elevation
4,442 ft
Flows into
Walker River

Flow now

E Walker Rv Nr Bridgeport, CA, 0 mi from the river.

20cfsat build, Nov 12, 11 AM MT

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The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 21 cfs to 30 cfs, around 25 cfs.

Also gauged at Buckeye Ck Nr Bridgeport, CA: 12 cfs, Nov 12.

Snowpack

0.3 in of water in the snow at Lobdell Lake and 2 more stations, against a median 0.2 in for the date (167 % of normal).

The snowpack here usually builds from Nov 21, peaks Apr 4 and is gone by May 13; runoff follows the melt.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

  • Midgessizes 18 to 22
  • Small eggs and worms
  • Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 21 to 30 cfs. Running 20 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

  • Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

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Flows from the U.S. Geological Survey, snowpack from the NRCS SNOTEL network, text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Built Nov 12.