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 [...]
May 18-25th While the weather has turned cool and unstable, fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento has remained hot. Midday hatches of small mayflies, mostly PMD’s and Pinks have big Rainbows on the grab. During non hatch periods Rubberlegs and egg patterns are finding fish consistently. Flows are scheduled to increase from 9500 to 10,500 [...]
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 [...]
ShastaTrout fly fishing guides donate trips that help raise $14,000 for California Trout The Cal Trout Annual Gala and fundraiser at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco on May 7th was their biggest success ever! We couldn’t be more pleased. Shasta Trout local guides Craig Nielsen, John Rickard, Gabe Duran and Jim Andras donated [...]
Northern California Fly Fishing Guide Report: April 13-19th We enjoyed another phenomenal week of guided fly fishing on Northern California rivers this week. We had trips on the Upper Sacramento River, Lower Sacramento River and Pit Rivers and shared the best spring fishing in recent memory. All of the rivers were exceptional with a couple [...]
Shasta Trinity Fly Fishers, Redding, CA April 14th Craig has been fly fishing Northern California for nearly fifty years and guiding on the McCloud River, Upper Sacramento River and Pit River for nearly two decades now. He attended the monthly meeting of the Shasta Trinity Fly Fishers were he was the featured speaker and tier, [...]