Bill Tuthill wrote in :

Grip wrote:
Bill...now yer talkin'! Awesome pics, Creek looks reeeeeal inviting. I
gotta git myself out there. Water temp low? I noticed all are wearing
drytops.

Yes, I'd say water temp was in the low 50s F, but didn't have
thermometer. This is why the trout population is so healthy, I guess.
Water is released from the bottom of McCloud Reservoir. Side streams
are a bit warmer, but don't add much to the flow at this time of year.

That's what you call a tailwater. There's another big one here in the upper
Delaware river water shed. The west branch of the Delaware river is fed
from a release at the bottom of reservoir while the east branch get's it's
water elsewhere. During the heat of the summer the west branch of the
Delaware is still producing fish (primarily Brown Trout) while the east
branch drops off. Experiments involving tagged fish have shown that many
fish tagged in the east branch are later found in the west branch miles
away. For those that don't know, different species of mayfly hatch at
specific temperatures (starting around 50 degrees F) so a coldwater stream
is going to produce more food and thus more trout.