Ryan Johnston Reports on 5.3.2016

The shad are showing up in good numbers in Chico. Expect the next 4-5 weeks to have good shad fishing on the Sacramento River. Expect the warm sunny days to produce the best shad results. With the shad showing up expect the striper fishing to slow down until the end of June. When there are lots of shad in the river the stripers become hard to catch as there is lots...

Hogan Brown Reports on 4.20.2016

Lower Sac

Striper fishing - Fishing lower in the river by Colusa is good. There are large schools of migratory fish around and of course there are crowds. Crowds like most of us can not imagine. I personally stay away with regards to guiding but if you want to get out and catch some fish for the cooler or can handle the chaos it can be a good day. There are a few...

Jon Baiocchi Reports on 4.20.2016

The Truckee River is fishing pretty well right now, and the flows are dropping into shape. The Glenshire stretch is at 220 cubes, and the upper canyon is running at 625 cfs, a tad higher down by Floriston. With higher flows, fish the side water first before venturing out. All of the fish last week were in deeper slower water next to the main flow/seam. Flesh Juan...

Ryan Johnston Reports on 4.20.2016

The Feather continues to fish well from Oroville down to Gridley. Fish are still evenly spread throughout the system. There are lots of half pounders this year in the 15-18" range. Finding the larger adult size fish has been challenging. There are a few around if you fish it enough and cover lots of water. The best fishing is from Sunrise till about 1PM. Once that...

Hogan Brown Reports on 4.13.2016

So, the weather is all over the place…imagine that it is spring in Nor-Cal. Brings me back to days when we actually had a spring. 80 degrees and gorgeous to 55 cold and rainy in the span of 48 hours. Makes for interesting fishing this really optimistic attitude for May through September to be honest. Last year about this time weather was gorgeous, and had been for a...

Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 4.7.2016

Northern Sierra Fishing Report ~ Lake Davis ~ Middle Fork Feather River ~ Truckee River

Lake Davis

Transition time for myself is under way, the Lower Yuba River is in the rear view mirror, and the Northern Sierra awakens. First stop, Lake Davis. The spawn is on yet many of the east side feeder creeks are drying up. Look for the creeks that...

Ryan Johnston Reports on 4.5.2016

The Feather is fishing decently for the spring run of steelhead. There are fish spread throughout the entire system from Oroville to Gridley. There are quite a few half pounders with the random adult mixed in. Most of the fish are in the 14-18" category and then a couple times a day hitting a 20-23" fish. Seems like most days you can hook 12-15 fish which is pretty...

Hogan Brown Reports on 4.7.2016

I have been on the Lower Sac trout and striper fishing this last week.

Lower Sac Trout

Fishing has been about as good as it gets. The upper stretch down to Hwy 44 bridge closed as of April 1 and most guides have been up there pretty steady so I had some of the floats below all to myself or with only a boat or two. The egg bite on sucker spawn seemed to be the best...

Ryan Johnston Reports on 3.31.16

The Feather is fishing average. We hooked 8 fish today on sucker spawns and Prince nymphs. This year so far has been lots of smaller half pounders. There are a few decent fish in the system but the big push of fish will hopefully show up in the next couple of weeks.

Sac has been good but I’m sure you have plenty of reports on that.

Jordan Romney Reports on 3.10.2016

WIth the recent signs of El Nino that finally showed up most things are on hold for a bit. It looks like there is another thumping headed for us this weekend. Despite knowing I was heading to muddy water I ran up and fished the Feather with two other guides this week. It had been a few months of hiatus from that river so I was excited to just fish it myself for a...