Lower Sac & A Near Death Experience?

The Lower Sac...sort of reminded me of southern Chilean Patagonia

Recently, I've been spending some time fishing well-known tail-waters of the West; the Beaverhead,  BigHorn, Missouri and the Green in Flaming Gorge; the latter three being BIG, tail-waters, below really huge dams within sometimes wide and sometimes narrow terrain.  (see images at bottom).Then I realized we have a famed and productive tail-water in the Lower Sac; right in our proverbial "back-yard".

Mike Brugh with a typical LS RainBow

So recently I spent two fun-filled days drifting the Lower Sac with members of the local fly fishing group; Tahoe Truckee Fly Fishers. Suffice it to say; we netted respectable numbers of RainBows which made long runs, pulled hard and were healthy and strong.

 The LS is an "urban" fishery...along Interstate 5

The fallen tree, right-side of image, just missed the drift-boat

Peter, the fella in the center of boat has new name, " Woody". The fella in the stern was brushed by the tree as it broke into pieces as it hit the port-side of the drift-boat.…really lucky nobody got seriously injured. We were up river around a bend and our guide Shane received a cell-call from Peter. The other boat in this image was drifting behind and saw the whole thing; seeing and hearing the tree falling and smashing on boat.

the Wide-Missouri

...a wadable Missouri side channel 

The Green River...entering the infamous Flaming George

One of the few rapids on the Green  River

The across-stream footpath covers the entire 7 miles of the Green's Section A

the BigHorn….with its ugly terrain

BigHorn Brown

BigHorn RainBow