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Yeah as if I can tell from the 2 pics you are showing that it is the East Fork. How far up stream are you.going? Do you dig up past the end of the paved road? The Narrows is about 5 miles up, and about 2 miles up you can still see washed out bridges from the 30's.

Before the 69 flood Bedrock was close to the surface..after that the river bottom rose about 20 feet and no more Dredging was done you had to climb up on the sides to get anything. Of course up by the Narrows bedrock starts to show itself.

About a 1/2 mile above Camp Williams there is a fire road on the North side from the canyon up...the road goes through an old Hydraulic Mine...I did a lot of digging there. That is where my old friend told me I would never get one of those Aluminum sluice boxes. His name was Harold King and he and his wife were retired and living in a Mobile Home park by Camp Williams.

Also as you drive up the canyon there is a outcropping of white quartz in one of the old hydraulic mines on the South side of the road ...I used to talk to the old boy who owned and lived on that property. He had been mining there since the 30's. He knew all the hot spots and where mining had gone on. He sold his Gold to Knotts Berry farm.

The biggest nugget to come out of the East Fork in the time I was there was about the size of a mans thumbnail and about as thick as a 50 cent piece. The guys who got that piece actually tunneled into the side of the mountain in one of the old Hydraulic mines...they even shored up the tunnel with wood.. Their little spot was right past the bridge where Glendora Montain Road intersects the East fork road..on the south side there is a Hydralic mine...and it is quite a climb to get up there but I bet yu can still see their tailings and little cement pond which was fed by a spring.. they used a sluice and recycled the water.