One could make a case that winter is the most interesting season to fly fish the Upper Sacramento River. This season has been especially so. Flows have been exceptionally low and clear, less than half the norm, much like one might expect at the end of a very dry summer. The clear cold weather also [...]
Fall fly fishing on the Upper Sacramento River has been spectacular. The Indian summer we are experiencing has provided phenomenal conditions to enjoy this legendary river in its full glory. The blackberries are ripe, the trees are full of brightly colored leaves framing a snow covered Mt. Shasta, and there is nothing but fair weather [...]
September 21st Dave, a visiting fly fisher from Durango, Colorado landed a lunker in the first run, on his first day ever fishing on the Upper Sacramento River. The wild trophy Rainbow Trout measured over twenty inches long and took some skill and patience to land. The fish was one of the largest his local [...]
I had a few cancellations this week, which are a part of guiding but they felt a little odd. I had taken some time off from our busiest season ever to vacation with my family in Yosemite, and visit with friends in the Rockies, so found myself anxious to get back to guiding. When I [...]
July 14, 1991 It’s been twenty years today since the disastrous spill at Cantara Loop on the Upper Sacramento River killed every living organism downstream all thirty eight miles to Lake Shasta. We fished the run directly downstream from the Cantara trestle one evening this week and caught wild Rainbow Trout on dry flies, a [...]
July 5 – 10th What a week! The weather in Mt. Shasta has turned gorgeous and the fishing has been superb! Several of our guests enjoyed some of the finest fishing of their lives. Three additional anglers landed trophy Rainbows this week that gained them entry into Shasta Trout’s Hawg of Fame! Consider this your [...]
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, [...]