Tag Archives: Lower Sacramento River

Fly fishing guide Anthony Carruesco reports on Lower Sacramento River

Lower Sacramento River fly fisher works a riff

This report posted by Anthony May 10th: The Lower Sac has had some ups and downs in the past week. In the past four days the flows have jumped from 7,000 cfs to 9,000 cfs. If you happen to be out on a “flow change” day the fishing can be tough. I was out on [...]

Fly fishing on the Lower Sacramento River heats up

Dave & Leighton enjoy a double below the Sundial Bridge

The weather in the Northstate has turned sunny and warm and the fishing on the Lower Sacramento River has heated up.  Spring has sprung with flowers in full bloom and ducks and geese hatching out their young.  We have seen many Osprey fishing for their young and spotted bald eagles most everyday.  A Pair of [...]

Northern California fly fishing guide Anthony Carruesco reports great fishing on the McCloud and Lower Sacramento Rivers

Anthony treats Heather to her first day fly fishing, Wow!

May 1, 2012 This report just posted  by Northern California fly fishing guide Anthony Carruesco: Good Gets Better: I had the pleasure of guiding some great folks this past weekend. Not only was the fishing good, the company was even better. Some highlights; I had a first time fly fisher make tremendous strides in her [...]

Lower Sacramento River clears, fly fishing guides report good angling

Rick lands a lunker on his first cast!

April 2012 The murky water conditions we have been experiencing on the Lower Sacramento River have cleared with clarity returning to the typical six to seven feet on the upper reaches.  Flows out of Keswick continue to be very low and fishable @ 3610 cfs with no scheduled releases at this time. Lower tributaries continue [...]

Lower Sacramento River fly fishing remains good despite cloudy water

Brian enjoys a bright Rainbow on an overcast day

Fly fishing guide reports from Anthony Carruesco, Gabe Duran and Craig Nielsen Since it is officially spring, winter has decided to finally arrive in the Northstate.  With the recent storms we have been experiencing, most rivers are blown out and turbidity on the Lower Sacramento River has increased dramatically.  It has varied between a foot [...]

Lower Sacramento River fly fishing guide Anthony Carruesco reports

Fly fishing guide Anthony Carruesco poses a trophy Lower Sacramento River Rainbow

This recent post by local guide Anthony Carruesco: We had a pretty substantial storm move through Nor Cal last week (FINALLY). The heavy rain did a good job of blowing out many of the local rivers but contributed some much needed water to the area. The Lower Sac through town has been pretty off color [...]

Lower Sacramento River: Shasta Trout fly fishing guide’s reports

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Several great local guides featured by  Shasta Trout including  Craig Nielsen, Gabe Duran, George Durand, Kevin Price, Matt Formento and Anthony Carruesco, have hosted a number of guests recently on the Lower Sacramento River and found the river to be fishing exceptionally well.  While we are still finding some steelhead on the Klamath and Trinity, [...]