Hogan Brown Reports on 3.30.2016

Here is what is going on and if you are looking to book a day I still have some late spring and Summer striper/trout dates open.
June 10, 13, 17, 27, 28,

July 6, 11, 13, 14, 25, 29,

Aug 1-3, 5, 6, 9, 20, 27

Evening Shad/bass May 3, 5, 6, 16, 17, 18,

Lower Yuba River

Flows are down to about 4000-3800cfs. I imagine this is going to be the flow for a bit. Flows are more then...

Hogan Brown Reports on 3.17.2016

Well most of the water I fish is some where between blown out and flood stage or shades of a mocha with heavy cream and melted milk chocolate…I have found myself having to remember what a “normal” year or weather pattern is. The last few years, say 4-5 years, March on our valley tail waters like the Lower Sac and Lower Yuba have been some of the best fishing of the...

Hogan Brown Reports on 3.2.2016

Rain is coming! good news for sure.

Warm weather has been nice but has provided a bit of a guilty feeling… as much as I have enjoyed BBQing, fishing in flip flops, hungry stripers, and caddis hatches I know we need more water.

Lower Sac

Fishing has been good on the Lower Sac for trout and the warmer weather has gotten the caddis and a few early PMD’s on the warmer...

Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 3.3.2016

To be quite honest, the Lower Yuba River has been extremely tough the last week. I’ve thought of dozens of possible scenarios that could be affecting the river, but one fact remains; their staple diet of the usual aquatic insects has changed due to the high flows that have scraped most of them away downstream. I don’t pump the stomachs of...

Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 2.23.2016

Fishing reports from fellow guides and anglers has been like a yo-yo, up and down, which describes the moods of the Lower Yuba River quite well. One guide I talked to on Saturday had two anglers in the boat and only 2 fish were hooked from the Highway 20 Bridge to Sycamore Ranch. That’s a slow day for a lot of water covered. It’s back to...

Jon Baiocchi reports on 2.17.2016

Finally our false spring is coming to an end today with a forecast of up to 3 inches of precipitation for the foothills. We’ll have to watch the Englebright and Deer Creek gauges closely to see what transpires in the next few days. Regardless of how much of a flow is coming down the river and being blown out, the clarity is still not good; Englebright Reservoir...

Hogan Brown reports on 2.17.2016 

So our northern california typical february pseudo spring has come and hopefully gone. It seems most years that at some point in February the sun comes out and we get some 70+ degree weather but then it gets cold again and winter continues for another few weeks. Problem with the last few years is that weather came in February and never left…hence the drought. This...

Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 2.10.2016

I was on the river a few days this week, and last Saturday saw unfavorable conditions for most anglers. Today was a whole different experience. The water clarity has gained up to 3.5 feet, but still off in a poor looking color. The flows have been great right around a 1,000 cubes, though today they dropped it down to 760 after 12pm, then...

Jordan Romney reports on 2.11.2015

Based on the fact that I have been wearing flip flops all week I would say early spring is in the air. The Yuba has been good to me lately as far as the fishing goes. It isn’t quite in the shape that I want it but the higher flows look great to me. The water is still colored up with about 2 ft of visibility in most spots. The water gets a little clearer everyday....

Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 2.3.2016

If you’ve been hiding under a rock like a skwala stonefly in the last week, you’ve missed out on another major event when the surge of water from Englebright Dam and Deer Creek topped 16,000 cubes early Saturday morning on the 30^th. High snow levels with heavy rain on a decent sized snowpack equaled in heavy runoff for all forks of the...