"Your right, exit at Meadow, then head to K-Town, that's what we call Kanosh," said Naquita a nice girl who worked at the Subway shop in Fremont. Once you’re in K-Town you just head up the canyon. Which follows right along with the Oracle's directions. What he didn't tell us was that the canyon is still gated off. So for us to get to the fabled "Second Stream" tributary, we would have to hoof it about 4 to 5 miles.
We walked for quite a while, and we got past the North Fork, and past the camp grounds, then we arrived to a tributary that looked to be what the Oracle would call a "3-beer" stream; meaning it has about as much flow as pouring 3 beers into a river bed.
We worked up one stream for a bit, but we were having a hell of a time finding areas that weren't extremely overgrown with willow branches. We went down river after about an hour, and found an area that was great, open and full of hungry fish, taking pretty much any dry you threw their way.
Working our way down river was more of the beginning of the day. We were bush-whacking at every hole and getting beat up in the process. There was little to no ability to back cast, or fore cast for that matter. (I wish the Oracle would have told us to bring a machete or chain saw). The fish were very alert, and stealth was almost impossible.
I can't throw the Oracle under the bus, because we never got to the exact area he told us to go. But I can’t imagine there would be a lot more access to the river up further. I don't care how well you can fish, when every hole is covered with brush, you can't get your fly in there.
Overall, beautiful canyon, and it looks like a great area to camp. The fish were plentiful and eager to eat. However the overgrowth was just too much to drive two and a half hours to get to. Sorry Oracle, I we don't see eye to eye on this one.
