Can you believe, it's August? WOW has the Lake Sabrina Boat Landing season gone by fast. Three more months to go - the kids in Bishop are about ready to go back to school and soon the Autumn colors will appear and then the occasion snow flurries and before you know - WE'RE ON VACATION!

Guess I got ahead of myself - actually ya'll only have 3 more months of the Lake Sabrina Boat Landing season - fishing season goes to November 15th. It was a rough start as winter just seemed to hold on for what felt like forever, but know - it's pretty awesome up here now!

The sound of thunder heard was heard loud and clear on Friday as was the larger than pea-size hail on the tin roof at Lake Sabrina. We got about .89 hundreds of an inch of rain on Friday - at one point it was raining at a rate of 3.60 inches an hour - it didn't rain for long at that rate, but while it was - you couldn't carry on a normal conversation in the restaurant the rain and hail were so loud on that tin roof. Pretty cool storm all in all.

So onto the fishing which was on and off - saw a number of limits leaving the Lake - most of the fish came from the Inlets by using NightCrawlers or PowerBait. Trolling Red and Gold Thomas Buoyants or WoolyBuggers brought in a few as did drifting around the Lake using NightCrawlers or PowerBait by the rock piles. Those fishing from shore were using NightCrawlers, PowerBait or tossing Thomas Buoyants or Flys.

It was Nicole Vaught of Orange Birthday Trip - and did she have a whopper of a trip - actually two whoppers - the day before her birthday she landed a 1-3/4 pounder on PowerBait and her birthday fish - a 2-3/4 pounder - wonder if she had to cook her own fish dinner after she provided it. Jeff Weaver of Riverside caught a fine looking 3-pounder on Salmon Eggs while Dan McCrea of Victorville nabbed a respectable 2-1/2 pounder on a fly.

So Audrey tells me the yellow flower on the hill behind the café is Buckwheat - we'll really try and have pictures for you next identifying some of the other wildflowers in the area.