Click here to read CalTrout’s North Coast manager Darren Mierau’s insightful piece on the Trinity’s recent history and (maybe) comeback. The Trinity River is enjoying a renaissance with California’s steelhead fishermen, and while steelhead populations seem to be prospering, salmon populations remain a bigger question. Cal Trout Trinity River photo of our good friend Shanan [...]
McCloud Dam Relicensing Flows Screencast from California Trout on Vimeo. Shasta Trout guide Craig Nielsen attended a meeting last Thursday, July 14th hosted by Cal Trout to discuss flow recommendations for the Pit and McCloud Rivers under relicensing with FERC. There has been a good deal of misunderstanding and misinformation regarding the flows and particularly [...]
July 14, 1991 It’s been twenty years today since the disastrous spill at Cantara Loop on the Upper Sacramento River killed every living organism downstream all thirty eight miles to Lake Shasta. We fished the run directly downstream from the Cantara trestle one evening this week and caught wild Rainbow Trout on dry flies, a [...]
We plan on attending a meeting hosted by CalTrout to discuss Pit River flows this Thursday, July 14 at 7:30 PM at the old Clearwater House in Cassel. We hope you can join us. This event will focus on the Pit River flows, but They will touch on McCloud River flows too. They’ve run a [...]
Our good friends at Cal Trout recently hired a new Director, Jeff Thompson who we’ve met, fished with and also shared some insightful dialogue over a few meals. Jeff is a catch for Cal Trout, he is an avid angler who is familiar with local rivers and issues facing California fly fishers as well as [...]
The Annual CalTrout Gala draws closer (May 6), and while tickets are still available, they’re going faster than Green Drakes on a trout stream. This gala benefits CalTrout in its work to protect and restore California’s wild trout, steelhead and salmon populations, so in a sense, you get to have fun now — and more [...]
Northern California Fly Fishing Guide Trip Reports, February 2011 The weather and river conditions have been challenging of late but visiting anglers have suffered well and been rewarded with some fine catches. Flows on the Lower Sacramento River have been clear and steady and the bite has been fair to good with caddis on clear [...]