My family spent the last week up in the central Sierra Nevadas, and had an
awesome time on New Melones Lake. It's a large resevoir in Angels Camp (Gold
Country, Frog Jumping). We had a cabin about 20 miles from the lake at the
4000' elevation, so we did "mountainy" things, and boated.

My 8 year old can now stay up on the wakeboard about as long as he wants. He
just stays in the clean water, and occasionally rides over the wake (no
jumping). It's pretty awesome to watch... seein' a little guy out there!

Fishing was fair, but we were doing it in the middle of the day, so no
surprise there. A few blue gills, and some smaller bass... no keepers, but
we don't usually keep anyway.

The lake is currently down over 100' from it's "full" level, but my sounder
still showed depths to 350'. Still plenty of water there. That's what two
dry seasons back to back, will do.

All in all a GREAT time.

--Mike