April 16th, 2012 I spent the other day hiking around the Pit River. Pit 3 and 4 fished well. Sunny skies and a light breeze made for a perfect day on the water. We hooked up with a good number of healthy rainbows throughout the day. Lots of caddis coming off in the afternoon as [...]
April 2012 Flows on the Upper Sacramento River have been moving up and down with the storm surges coming through and whenever the flows are waning the fishing has been quite good. The National Weather Service is predicting another short pulse and then clearing for the weekend. We are anticipating some excellent fishing in the [...]
April 2012 The murky water conditions we have been experiencing on the Lower Sacramento River have cleared with clarity returning to the typical six to seven feet on the upper reaches. Flows out of Keswick continue to be very low and fishable @ 3610 cfs with no scheduled releases at this time. Lower tributaries continue [...]
April 2012 Fly fishing the Klamath River continued to be very good with bright fresh spring run Steelhead arriving until April 5th when flows out of Irongate Dam unexpectedly increased to nearly 4,000 cfs. We have contacted the hatchery to see if the sudden increase from 1800 cfs was due to hatchery operations as they [...]
Fly fishing guide reports from Anthony Carruesco, Gabe Duran and Craig Nielsen Since it is officially spring, winter has decided to finally arrive in the Northstate. With the recent storms we have been experiencing, most rivers are blown out and turbidity on the Lower Sacramento River has increased dramatically. It has varied between a foot [...]
This recent post by local guide Anthony Carruesco: We had a pretty substantial storm move through Nor Cal last week (FINALLY). The heavy rain did a good job of blowing out many of the local rivers but contributed some much needed water to the area. The Lower Sac through town has been pretty off color [...]
This report just posted by local guide Anthony Carruesco: I have been back and forth between the Upper and Lower Sac the past five days and both rivers continue to fish very well. The bite on the Lower Sac has been pretty insane between about 11:00 and 2:00. The best bugs for me have been [...]