A friend of ours bought what was an old fishing camp on Little Owens Creek.
They have about a mile of stream, and it has been 'dammed' to make many pools - I saw about 12 dams / pools over 200 yards.
They did this way back in the 1920's. It's near Camp David. Eisenhower fished there, and one of his brook trout is on the wall
There is a main building with kitchen great room, bathroom.
3 other cabins are attached to this main hall.
[Other cabins are obviously on the property. I did not see them]
Really picturesque - you note stream dynamics-
above all these stone 'dams' (2' or 3' high?)
the silting went nearly to the top of the dam.
Below were nice pools, and you could see lots of trout.
THEN THAT would silt up before the dam, and below a pool - then silt.
- NO ONE fishes there now, and it built as an anglers' club. All Catch and release anyway.
Pretty neat spot. The owner would rent it out - could be great for a Church or Boy Scout or multi family back to nature retreat.
The part we were in is basically in a shallow gorge, so I don't know much about what to do except hike along the stream.
I only saw a tiny portion of the land, 200 yards or so, and all of that was shallow gorge.
My only beef about fishing an area like that is - "well, I see that trout, I'll cast a little above". I prefer figuring out the currents and guessing where that trout is.
At Otter Valley you can see 5, 10 trout, more in some pools.
Not really fishing.
Overall, really cool spot.
Here's the realtors' vid, I guess from 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29D2qfVXk58
sorry michaeljfox took some of the video... sheesh.
They have about a mile of stream, and it has been 'dammed' to make many pools - I saw about 12 dams / pools over 200 yards.
They did this way back in the 1920's. It's near Camp David. Eisenhower fished there, and one of his brook trout is on the wall
There is a main building with kitchen great room, bathroom.
3 other cabins are attached to this main hall.
[Other cabins are obviously on the property. I did not see them]
Really picturesque - you note stream dynamics-
above all these stone 'dams' (2' or 3' high?)
the silting went nearly to the top of the dam.
Below were nice pools, and you could see lots of trout.
THEN THAT would silt up before the dam, and below a pool - then silt.
- NO ONE fishes there now, and it built as an anglers' club. All Catch and release anyway.
Pretty neat spot. The owner would rent it out - could be great for a Church or Boy Scout or multi family back to nature retreat.
The part we were in is basically in a shallow gorge, so I don't know much about what to do except hike along the stream.
I only saw a tiny portion of the land, 200 yards or so, and all of that was shallow gorge.
My only beef about fishing an area like that is - "well, I see that trout, I'll cast a little above". I prefer figuring out the currents and guessing where that trout is.
At Otter Valley you can see 5, 10 trout, more in some pools.
Not really fishing.
Overall, really cool spot.
Here's the realtors' vid, I guess from 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29D2qfVXk58
sorry michaeljfox took some of the video... sheesh.