Guided Fly Fishing Trips on Northern California Rivers
February 9th – 15th
What a week! We started out with an epic afternoon on the Pit River which during any other time of year would have been fantastic. To experience catching fish after fish in the dead of winter was just too good to [...] Read more »
Guided Fly Fishing Trips on Northern California Rivers
January 27th-31st
It was great to return to Fly Fishing on the Klamath River and Upper Sac after last week’s epic storms and trip cancellations. Flows steadied and water clarity improved, water temps came up a couple degrees and conditions could not be too much better. [...] Read more »
Fly Fishing Guide Wayne Eng Lands a Lunker!
December 17th
Local Fly Fishing Guide Wayne Eng lives on the banks of the Sacramento River and knows nearly every nook and cranny on the river so you can imagine his surprise when he landed an enormous Brown Trout not far from his doorsteps. Tom Chandler, author of the [...] Read more »
The ShastaTrout fishing report features the most recent information obtained from the very finest local guides. All of our guides are seasoned professionals who in most cases spend as much time individually on the rivers they guide as our biggest competitor’s guides spend collectively. We hope you find our report informative and useful in [...] Read more »
Wet Weekend on the McCloud & Upper Sac, Fall River and Lower Sac Oct. 2-4
We had our first storm and snow in Mt. Shasta this weekend. Daytime highs dropped nearly 40 degrees. On Friday Rebecca who was hosting Christa and Sig from Germany joined us for an adventure on the Upper Sac. [...] Read more »
Sherry
Sherry thought she’d venture forth and learn to fly fish. We settled on the Upper Sacramento River because it provides a perfect “classroom” for the novice, with a variety of runs, riffles, pockets and pools along with easy access to over 40 miles of prime Wild Rainbow Trout habitat. She’d done a little casting on [...] Read more »
First Published as a Foraging Angler Column in:
California Fly Fisher Magazine, August 2009
I concluded my previous Foraging Angler offering “Dining in the Shadow of Shasta”with a promise to reveal some secrets regarding dining in Dunsmuir. I’ll begin this column by sharing with you the biggest secret of all. The overall quality and value provided by [...] Read more »
