October 4th Fall has arrived in the shadow of Shasta, the blackberries are juicy and ripe, the colors are changing, and daytime temps have cooled as the fishing is turning hot. Salmon are showing on the Lower Sacramento, Trinity and Klamath Rivers and the egg bite for trophy Trout and Steelhead has begun. This is [...]
July 25- August 4th Fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento River has been hot, as is the catching! Several guests this past week enjoyed spectacular success and some of the best trophy trout fishing of their lives. Mark and Jeff traveled down from Oregon to sample the bounty and went home to spread the word. [...]
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 18-25th You would never guess it’s spring in the Northstate as it is snowing again this morning at Shasta Trout headquarters! Despite the cool wet spring, the fishing on the McCloud, Pit and Upper Sac is improving nearly daily. Flows have dropped significantly from a few weeks ago and while local freestones remain high [...]
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 [...]
The general trout season opens this Saturday, April 30th. The McCloud, Fall River and Hat Creek will open after closing for the winter while we’ve been fishing the remainder of our rivers year round. Here are our picks for the opener and a brief description of what is fishing best: Pick #1) The Lower Sacramento [...]
After being sick in bed all week it was nice to get up and out for a couple hours of fishing. Flows on the Upper Sac have dropped and stabilized and while the flows are a bit higher than the norm, the river is in great shape. So are the fish! I got out late [...]