The past holiday weekend was quite busy in most local streams and
rivers, but the fish were happy and ate quite willingly. Fall river
fished well on a nymph, and also there were opportunity to catch wild
rainbows on a dry fly. The evenings produced beautiful thunderheads, but
we were spared rain. However, the clouds did make for some beautiful
sunsets.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
