July 22nd Fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento River remains outstanding and Becky, with husband Phil, took full advantage. Visiting for several days this delightful couple enjoyed a couple days to sample the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers and on their last day upped their game, landing several trophies including a very large fish played [...]
July 6th & 7th Richard (Dick) the President of the Shasta Trinity Fly Fishing Club in Redding was joined by the Vice President, Creighton for a couple days of fishing on the McCloud River and Lower Sacramento River with local guide Craig Nielsen. On back to back days they gained entry into Shasta Trout’s Hawg [...]
July 5th Scott traveled to the Mt Shasta area for a visit with his family and snuck away for a couple days of fishing with local guides Craig Nielsen on the McCloud River and Alan Blankenship on the Pit River. He enjoyed some spectacular fishing including a large dry fly Rainbow on his last cast [...]
June 30th The evening dry fly bite has been exceptional on the McCloud River and Galen took full advantage this week catching fish after fish as light faded over the canyon walls. Galen’s father, Dan reeled up and asked if Galen could still see his fly as local guide Craig Nielsen said, “This is the [...]
June 11 Hank, a ten year old fly fisher, landed a Klamath River Steelhead on a dry fly while on a fishing trip with his father, grandfather and uncle at the Klamathon Lodge. Not many anglers can lay claim to an adult steelhead on a dry and this fine fish allows Hank to join his [...]
Fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento River remains outstanding and Todd Gillihan, owner of Westslope Outfitters took full advantage landing several trophies including a very large fish played in heavy water. If you visit the Auburn area we recommend looking up Todd for a guide trip, he is an outstanding angler, exceptional teacher and a [...]
Trout Season opens in a big way! Three anglers enjoyed some spectacular weather during opening week and were treated to some trophy Rainbows that gained them entry into Shasta Trout’s Hawg of Fame. Ron who is new to the sport spent a couple of days on the Lower Sacramento River with his good friends Harry, [...]