If you’re not four-wheelin’, watch your oil pan. With an Adventure Pass in hand ($5 for a one-day $30 for a year, available at Orvis on Lake Sports Chalet or Big 5), we drove the additional 10 minutes around the lake until Hook Creek Road, which turns ugly for autos when it becomes 2N2GY, forest speak for dirt. Will and I drove the quick hour and twenty minutes to Lake Arrowhead, getting into town in time for lunch. The ‘bows on Deep Creek keep on fighting (Jim Burns). According to literature, it hasn’t been stocked by the Dept. After all, it is a state-designated wild trout stream, meaning no farmed fish, only naturals. Why we ignore Deep Creek in the San Bernardino Mountains is a mystery. With free time in hand, most fly fishers from Pasadena head for the West Fork of the San Gabriel, or roll the dice above the Jet Propulsion Lab in La Canada. Don’t add to their stress by catching them. Also, because this is a protected area, if the native fish die out, that will also be the end of this once beautiful water because it won’t be stocked. UPDATE: Take Deep Creek off your fishing radar until the drought ends. He’s a natural, even though rainbows are considered a non-native species to Deep Creek.
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