Klamath River, March 2012 Local fly fishing guides Craig Nielsen, Alan Blankenship and Anthony Carruesco have been spending several days a week on the upper Klamath River recently and report continued good to great fishing for mostly wild winter run steelhead as well as a few hatchery fish. Anglers are enjoying multiple hooks ups and [...]
February Freestones from AC on Vimeo. Video by local guides Anthony Carruesco & Matt Formento A few of us have been fishing the Upper Sacramento River again this week and it continues to to fish exceptionally well with near ideal spring like conditions. Flows remain exceptionally low and clear and fish are active from Cantara [...]
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, [...]
Guide reports from Anthony Carruesco & Matt Formento We have been out on the Upper Sacramento River a few times this past week and the fishing has been VERY solid. The early spring like weather has the bugs and the fish active. Right now the larger rainbows in the Upper Sac are dominating the pools [...]
First published in the January/February 2011 Issue of California Fly Fisher Magazine by Craig Nielsen I am not a believer in silver bullets when it comes to fly patterns. I currently spend roughly 250 days a year on the water, yet seldom have I found a particular fly pattern to be the sure-bet solution to [...]
Steelhead Fly Fishing on the Trinity River has been as good as we’ve seen since the epic 2007 season. Our great local guides Gabe Duran, Kevin Price, Jim Andras and George Durand are averaging several hook ups a day with some hard work, with 6-8 adult hook ups a day about average, with some double [...]
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 [...]