Fine with me. I occasionally drive down river on that dusty road below the Briceberg Bridge crossing and camp at McCabe flat. After spring that section becomes hot, dry, and brown with few visitors other than a few rafters. Even during spring when things are nicely green, few bother using those areas. A snippet from the MG article:
"...That would bring the maximum lake level to about half a mile from the falls and renowned fishing hole at the North Fork of the Merced River. The current high-water mark is about three-quarters of a mile from the North Fork."
So what? The fishing near the end of reservoir where the Merced flows in at the Bagby BLM camping area is chronically poor. Generally most all such foothill bathtub ring reservoirs that dammed our beautiful natural Sierra rivers have evolved over a few decades to have poor shore fishing except for a few trolling die hard boaters. Beneficial and necessary for water supplies but utterly destructive to its ecosystems. Water under the bridge at this point. For a short period in late winter some larger holdover trout from the reservoir are likely to move up the river regardless of where the Merced inlet of the reservoir begins.
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