February 2011 Local Lower Sacramento River fly fishing guide Gabe Duran has been finding some exceptional fish lately on the Lower Sac, including this beautiful trophy, despite what most experts consider a very tough bite. With this trophy Rainbow, he enters Shasta Trout’s Hawg of Fame. Most of his success has come on egg patterns [...]
The McCloud, Upper Sacramento, Lower Sacramento, Klamath, Pit, Fall Rivers & Hat Creek We are now a bit over a month into the regular trout season and the fishing has been surprisingly good, particularly considering the wet and wacky weather we have been experiencing. The Redbud and Dogwoods are in full glory with more wildflowers [...]
Fly Fishing the McCloud, Pit & Upper Sac: A Fly Fishing Guide’s Presentation Tri Valley Club March 4th Craig joined the Tri-Valley Fly Fishing Club in Livermore for their monthly meeting and presented a program on “Fly Fishing Freestones,” techniques, tactics and strategies for success on the McCloud, Pit and Upper Sacramento Rivers. The packed [...]
The ShastaTrout fishing report features the most recent information obtained from the very finest local guides. All of our guides are seasoned professionals who in most cases spend as much time individually on the rivers they guide as our biggest competitor’s guides spend collectively. We hope you find our report informative and useful in planning [...]
Guided Fly Fishing Trips on Northern California Rivers February 9th – 15th What a week! We started out with an epic afternoon on the Pit River which during any other time of year would have been fantastic. To experience catching fish after fish in the dead of winter was just too good to believe. On [...]
Guided Fly Fishing Trips on Northern California Rivers January 27th-31st It was great to return to Fly Fishing on the Klamath River and Upper Sac after last week’s epic storms and trip cancellations. Flows steadied and water clarity improved, water temps came up a couple degrees and conditions could not be too much better. We [...]
Guided Fly Fishing Trips on Northern California Rivers January 11-17th Fly Fishing for Steelhead on the Klamath and the Trophy Trout fishing on the Lower Sacramento continued this week with fine weather, some outstanding anglers and a few exceptional fish. We started the week with a couple new friends from Oregon. John and Ron are [...]