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 [...]
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 [...]
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Upper Sacramento River Fishing Conditions The river is low, clear and a bit technical but has been fishing well for those in the know. Stealth is key as is covering a lot of water to find feeding fish. Bug activity is light as is typical this time of year, a few Tricos showing each evening [...]
Upper Sacramento River Fishing Conditions Loads of bugs still about including Goldenstones, a few Flavs (Greydrakes), Yellow Sallies as well as great evening hatches of PED’s and a couple different species of Caddis. The evening dry fly fishing has been phenomenal! Nymphing midday is producing but if you prefer throwing dries they continue to find [...]
Paul, Dave and Michael Another Grand Slam! Four rivers in two days and each angler caught fish on every river again. It’s that time of year. To follow the baseball theme further we might even claim a “cycle”, 4 rivers, 3 players, 2 days, 1 guide. What a great game we had. Paul fishes with [...]