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I got out early this morning on Lake Tahoe with my mini 10′ jon boat (equipped with a flame throwing 2.5 hp motor) for a little trolling action. When I decided to put two lines out, things got interesting in a hurry!
Gear used in this mission:
MegaBass Vision 110 in the Table Rock SP color
Lucky Craft Pointer 78 in Rainbow Trout
Lucky Craft Pointer 78 in Aurora Green Perch
When the mackinaw weren’t biting on Lake Tahoe one morning, I put an Okuma Water Wolf camera down to see what the heck was going on. What I saw was totally unexpected…
With the Sierra snowpack sitting at almost 200% of normal as of March 6, 2017, let’s not forget how far we have come. Here are some photos I shot on a trip to our place in Tahoe back in February of 2015. What an amazing difference!
It looked like summer in the winter of 2015. Here’s a view off Eagle Rock on the West Shore…a spot I’ve never been in the dead of winter…
Looking south off Eagle Rock towards Sugar Pine Point and, eventually, South Lake Tahoe. It was so depressing and scary to see it in February with no snow…
I took a picture of the monkeys that snowless winter, pretending to sled on the driveway, where they normally have their pretend Olympic Games…
And here’s that same driveway now…
The lake level this year is back up above its natural rim but in in Feb of 2015, it was looking bleak…
With the lake back up, the Truckee River is now reaching it’s outlet at Tahoe City. In 2014 that was clearly not the case. This is the view off the dam looking out towards where the lake is supposed to be…
The Truckee was all but dry below the dam too that winter. Here’s looking back upstream towards Fanny Bridge in Tahoe City…
Summer? Nope…Dead of winter 2015…
So, just how much snow have we had this year? Well, here are the totals as of March 1:
Mt. Rose: 650″
Sugar Bowl: 635″
Boreal: 598″
Kirkwood: 577″
Squaw Valley: 575″
Northstar: 561″
Heavenly: 556″
Sierra at Tahoe: 492″
Homewood: 483″
Diamond Peak: 411″
Short answer: A LOT OF SNOW!!
We just never know exactly what’s happening under the surface do we? I was over a big school of mackinaw on Lake Tahoe the other day and they didn’t want to bite. It seemed as if they had no interest whatsoever in our gear.
Boy was I wrong! I dropped my trusty Okuma WaterWolf camera down there and found that the curious little buggers were, indeed, very interested in my gear…more specifically my sinker! Check it out!