Dry Fly fishing on the McCloud River has been outstanding as midday hatches of Pale Morning Duns and Large Drakes, including Green Drakes have big ‘bows looking up. Some Salmonflies and early Goldenstones are out and about and fish are beginning to take them on the surface as well. Local guides, Craig Nielsen, Alan Blankenship, [...]
Jason, October 16th Jason heard that the October Caddis were out and about and the fish were on ‘em, so he took a break from roof repairs as the big storm blowing through took pause. We enjoyed a damp afternoon chasing rainbows with Big Dry Flies with some success though the nymphing was admittedly better. [...]
Denis & Tench There was little surface activity to be seen on the McCloud River this day so we nymphed both with an indicator and with droppers under a dry fly. The fish enjoyed our offerings and we enjoyed the bent rods. Any time we put a good first cast and drift through a run [...]
Ron Ron came up to spend the holiday weekend sampling some dry fly fishing on area waters and enjoy the emerging fall colors at his getaway cabin in Dunsmuir. We got together for an evening to share some strategies, techniques and try them on water he fishes often as well as sample some water [...]
Adam Adam snuck away from a hectic work schedule in the city to spend a day searching for Rainbows on the beautiful Upper Sacramento River. He is a seasoned nympher so we started around mid-river running an indicator through the head of a classic run. We hooked several fish and landed a few as well. [...]
Guide’s Day Off I had my first weekend off in a while so…I went fishing. The evening bite on the McCloud has been unbelievable so when I found myself running an errand in the town of McCloud it made it an easy detour to air out a few dry flies. While the hatch took a [...]
New Year on the Upper Sac Took an afternoon off to take a peek at the Upper Sac. Was hoping for a little Blue Wing Olive hatch and some sipping of dry flies but settled for a few grabs on an October Caddis dry and a number of fish on small olive nymphs and emergers. [...]