July 11-23rd Evening dry fly fishing continues to be exceptional, particularly on the Fall River where the Hexagenia Mayfly hatch is peaking. If you have not experienced this event, with big hungry trout sucking down size six dry flies as the sun sets over Mt. Shasta, consider this your complimentary notice to get here now. [...]
Tom Peppas, Gabe Duran and George Durand hosted a few groups to some fine days on the Fall River last week. Cool temps mean midday hatches of Blue Wing Olives and Pale Morning Duns have been fair on some days, good on others with some exceptional dry fly action on the better days. One of [...]
May 18th – 25th Fall River and Hat Creek are spring creeks and as such are typically impacted little by spring runoff in high water years. They are very hatch driven however and the bugs have been coming to life and fishing is improving as a result. Midday hatches of small mayflies, PMD’s predominately have [...]
October 2010 Our first big storm of the season arrived last weekend with wind and rain that provided freshets and improved fishing for steelhead on the Klamath and Trinity and trophy trout on the Lower Sac and Fall River but dampened the bite on our local freestones, the McCloud, Upper Sac and Pit. The storm [...]
September 2010 Summertime fly fishing in Northern California finished in fine style. All of our local rivers, the McCloud, Pit, Upper and Lower Sacramento, Trinity, Klamath, Fall and Hat Creek are in superb condition and are fishing well. Some recent guests enjoyed some of the best fishing and catches of their lives and the [...]
August 2010 (Click on any photo for more pics of recent adventures in the shadow of Shasta) The Upper Sacramento, Pit and McCloud Rivers continue to fish well particularly early and late in the day when the sun is off the water. Afternoon is a great time to have a cold drink, take a nap [...]
Mount Shasta Area Fly Fishing Guide Reports for July 2010 (click on any photo for additional trip pics) July was a fabulous month, our most successful ever. Thank you! The fishing of late has been terrific, though with the warm daytime temps, the catching has slowed a bit, particularly midday. It’s the time of year [...]