July 22nd Fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento River remains outstanding and Becky, with husband Phil, took full advantage. Visiting for several days this delightful couple enjoyed a couple days to sample the McCloud and Upper Sacramento Rivers and on their last day upped their game, landing several trophies including a very large fish played [...]
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. [...]
July 6th & 7th Richard (Dick) the President of the Shasta Trinity Fly Fishing Club in Redding was joined by the Vice President, Creighton for a couple days of fishing on the McCloud River and Lower Sacramento River with local guide Craig Nielsen. On back to back days they gained entry into Shasta Trout’s Hawg [...]
July 5th Scott traveled to the Mt Shasta area for a visit with his family and snuck away for a couple days of fishing with local guides Craig Nielsen on the McCloud River and Alan Blankenship on the Pit River. He enjoyed some spectacular fishing including a large dry fly Rainbow on his last cast [...]
June 11 Hank, a ten year old fly fisher, landed a Klamath River Steelhead on a dry fly while on a fishing trip with his father, grandfather and uncle at the Klamathon Lodge. Not many anglers can lay claim to an adult steelhead on a dry and this fine fish allows Hank to join his [...]
Dry Fly fishing on the McCloud River has been outstanding as midday hatches of Pale Morning Duns and Large Drakes, including Green Drakes have big ‘bows looking up. Some Salmonflies and early Goldenstones are out and about and fish are beginning to take them on the surface as well. Local guides, Craig Nielsen, Alan Blankenship, [...]
Lower Sacramento River fly fishing guides Chris King, Gabe Duran, Aaron Grabiel and Craig Nielsen hosted a number of fly fishers who enjoyed an outstanding bite in the past few weeks. Incredible midday hatches of Pale Morning Duns have the fish feeding in a frenzy and the grab gets silly at times. The cool temps [...]