Dave Neal, Reel Adventures Guide Service

Two words for Nor-Cal and Southern Oregon fly fishers… Get Outside! It’s the middle of May… do you know where your wading boots are?

Simply put… it’s an angler’s blank canvas with pretty much every fishery in northern California holding potential over the next few weeks. It’s all beginning to happen: salmonflies, golden stoneflies, caddis, drakes, pmd...

Leslie Ajari, Confluence Outfitters

Fantastic fishing on Fall River this weekend. My client Peter had a double digit day and got a Fall River grand slam. He hooked and landed fish on dries, nymphs and streamers. Early in the day, fishing a nymph rig was effective and he landed both large and small fish. The afternoon brought some wind, but it died down after and hour or so, and there was a solid...

Leslie Ajari

The fish were on the job today chowing nymphs on almost every cast in certain runs. A light, spring creek nymphing rig was the way to go. Fish were aggressively eating small pheasant tails and micro mayflies. The dry fly action was a bit slow, with occasional rises, but nothing consistent. Small baetis dries produced a few opportunities early in the day, and PMD’s were hatching around...

Jon Baiocchi, Baiocchi Troutfitters

Last week Tayler Wells of Tail Walker guide service and I did a recon mission on the Middle Fork Feather River, Jamison creek, Frazier creek, and the North Fork Yuba River – all in one day! Here are our latest reports and findings;
Middle Fork Feather River; we fished the Gray eagle area and water temps have bumped up a bit at 52, but the catching was slow. The...

Hogan Brown,Hogan Brown Fly Fishing

Lower Feather River Spring Steelhead – They are in and the recent rain moved a few fish around and up. Swinging flies and nymphing with caddis and basic attractors is still catching fish. Fishing should continue through Mid May but May slow down earlier with warmer weather as the flows are low and water temps could warm up.

Water that is open– My goal is to...

Securing the Future of Fall River

What I thought was going to be an epic opener on the MFFR turned out to be a bust. Water temperatures will always dictate whether the fishing the first weekend of April will be successful, or not here. When the thermometer barked out 45 degrees in the water, I knew it would be fruitless. I still probed the many runs and pools with a hope for a bent rod. No...

Lower Feather River Spring Steelhead- There are both half pounders and adult spring steelhead in the system up through Oroville and with nearly no water coming out of the outlets the river all the way to Gridley has good cool water temps. Many times during the spring when water is pumping out of the outlet for Agriculture the high flow warms up and congregates...

Hogan Brown, Hogan Brown Fly Fishing

Spent the Weekend guiding the Lower Feather for spring steelhead. I spend most of my time swinging for these fish as they are some of the better “swung fly eaters” in the central valley. We managed a few missed grabs and a nice 4lb wild adult hen about 24" on saturday. Swinging bait fish style flies in white and olive or caddis pupa/soft hackles is best. 

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Hat Creek

Fall River

McCloud River- From John Rickard : On a quick non-fishing visit yesterday, I was so pleased to see her beautiful and with some huge brown trout redds.