Jon Baiocchi Reports on 10.20.2016Lower Yuba UpdateI worked the Lower Yuba River on Tuesday for a special guest who wanted a private one on one pontoon workshop. It was a glorious day with sunshine...
Hogan Brown Reports on 10.20.2016Open Guide Dates:Nov 25, 26,Dec 17, 21-23, 27-31Jan 5-7, 14, 16, 21, 28Lower Sacramento Striper fishinghas been good if you can really pick your day and time. With ...
Hogan Brown Reports on 10.6.2016Lower Yuba River -I spent a few days floating the Lower Yuba River the last week. Fishing has been fair I would say. I am sure the there is the opportunity for reall...
Brian Clemens Reports on 10.6.2106Feather River Rating: Good to Great Flow: 800cfs in Low Flow Temp: mid 50’s Clarity: Clear The Feather has really turned on in the past week, and that’s mainly...
Jordan Romney Reports on 9.8.2016Errr… So mid August the Yuba was firing for me. I was excited about the number of fish we found and size. It was a relief to find the fish fat and healthy again. Bu...
Brian Clemen’s Reports on 9/5/2016Yuba River Rating: Good to good++ Flows: 800cfs Temp: high 50’s lower 60’s Clarity: Clear Report: This is where I have spent a few trips on as of recent. Prio...
Hogan Brown Reports on 8.25.2016Lower Sac Striper fishing…fishing remains good. Weather has cooled down (relative for chico, ca in august) during the day but most importantly the evening temperatur...
8/18/2016We have been hearing some descent fishing reports from the Lower Yuba. Our buddy Tony Bellaver was up there the other day to test out his new quad spey rod he is working on and landed this...
Jon Baiocchi reports on 8.11.2016I just completed a 5 day run up on the North Fork Yuba River and my guests and I had such an awesome time as the fishing has been great. Water temperatures are stil...
Jon Baiocchi Reports on 7.28.2016The North Fork Yuba River has been fishing extremely well, so good in fact you could say it’s on fire. Water temperatures in the upper watershed are running 55 to 6...
Dave Barbiere Reports on 7.21.2016Awesome striper fishing on the Yuba this week! We are getting almost as many stripers in a day, as we did shad during the height of the shad run. No huge fish, bu...
Brian Celmens Reports on 6/2/2016Wow, where has this year gone, April was EPIC, May was here and gone with some more great fishing, now we are in June and the fishing is really good too. I know I s...
Dave Barbieri Reports on 5.18.2016Yuba Shad fishing is on fire right now! On the warmer days we are into unbelievable numbers of fish. I’m doing drift boat trips from Daguerre Dam, down about 7 mil...
Hogan Brown Reports on 4.28.2016It’s still high but there is fish around and success seems to be if you find the fish on a given day. I have heard some good reports and had a few good days but have...
Hogan Brown Reports on 4.13.2016So, 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 ...
Hogan Brown Reports on 3.30.2016Here 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, 1...
Hogan Brown Reports on 3.17.2016Well 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 hav...
Hogan Brown Reports on 3.2.2016Rain 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, h...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 3.3.2016To 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...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 2.23.2016Fishing 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...
Jon Baiocchi reports on 2.17.2016Finally 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 Dee...
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 ...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 2.10.2016I was on the river a few days this week, and last Saturday saw unfavorable conditions for most anglers. Today was a whole different experi...
Jordan Romney reports on 2.11.2015Based 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 go...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 2.3.2016If 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 wate...
Hogan Brown Reports on 2.1.2016Lower Sacramento RiverRiver is fishing well down to the cow creek area so mainly Posse to Anderson. Cow and Cotton wood should clear over the next week but it will ta...
Jordan Romney reports on 1.27.201614,000 CFS turned the peaceful river into a raging torrent of mud. Prior to the river blowing out it was fishing excellent. There was a little bit of color from a ...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 1.27.2016I’ve been on the river the last two days with my guests and have a very clear picture of the current conditions through observations. Firs...
Jon Baiocchi reports on 1.19.2016It’s the calm after the storm(s), but it finally happened, and not just on the Yuba, but on many watersheds throughout the state were affected by raging high flows....
Customer and Cal Trout Golden Trout Member made a trip to Yuba River on Monday to find she was muddy and more than swollen from rains. She’s dropping into shape and the forecast looks like the rain...
Hogan Brown Reports on 1/13/2104Lower Sacramento River: The Lower Sac hasn’t changed much sense my last post outside of the weather has been a bit warmer on average. For a few weeks it was really c...
Jordan Romney Reports on 1/14/2015The river I have been focusing my attention on this winter has been the Yuba. The fishing has been great if you are there on the right day. Probably one of the...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters ReportsIt’s been really cold in the foothills and on the Lower Yuba River the last week with temperatures hovering in the high twenties in the morning. We eve...
Hogan Brown Reports on 12/17/2015Been on the Lower Yuba River Lately…Fishing has been very inconsistent. I thought with the last 2 big pushes of water out of deer creek a little color would be adde...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s TroutfittersCurrent conditions on the Lower Yuba River remains fair to good depending on the day and the location. Resident rainbows seem to be podded up below redds, and ...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s TroutfittersIt was a beautiful out last Friday on the Lower Yuba River, air temps reached the 70’s and fishing pressure was very light. My guest for the day wanted to conc...
Hogan Brown Reports on 11/26/2015I have been spending the last week on the Lower Sac between Red Bluff and Corning running swing trips out of the jet boat. With the low flows there a lot of spots t...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters reports on 11.5.2015Since I’m unable to launch my boat at Lake Davis, trip numbers have been down. Like any creature of the wild I adjust, and I have been put...
Jordan Romney Reports on 10.22.2015Yuba Report Last week I put in one really long full day on the Yuba. We tried putting our flies in every crevice we could. Fishing was slow for the most part and ...
Hogan Brown reports on 10.22.2015:Lower Yuba River River is still low and I tend to stay away from it when it is below 700cfs…it is sitting at 686 cfs now with a water temp of 55.6 so temps are go...
NOR CAL FLY GUIDES530-354-3740Feather River:Despite what you may hear the Feather is fishing pretty good right now. Over the past 2 weeks the number of steelhead in the system has increased dramati...
Dave Barbieri Yuba Reports 8/11/15After an incredible spring trout season, and an awesome shad run, trout fishing on the Yuba River has reverted to typical Yuba. Experienced anglers can get good...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s Troutfitters Reports on 7.22.2015Lance Gray and I are running a Yuba River pontoon drift workshop, It’s about learning how to read the water, control your boat, and gain ...
Hogan Brown Reports on 6.24.2015:Lower Sac Striper Fishing– There is a TON of young stripers in the river right now. Lots of shaker size fish and 17-20” fish. The big fish seem to be slowly coming ...
Jon Baiocchi / Baiocchi’s TroutfittersJon The North Fork Yuba River is firing on all cylinders right now. Fishing is extremely good, and the evenings have been magical. Water temps are ranging from...
Dave Barbieri, Dave Barbieri Guide ServiceDry fly fishing on the Yuba has been outstanding! Aside for about 5 min last week, we haven’t fished nymphs for about a month. Very good numbers, but fish ...
Jon Baiocchi, Baiocchi TroutfittersThe Lower Yuba River is on fire right now with abundant hatchesof March Browns, and Pink Alberts! This is it, exceptional dry fly fishing but asusual on the Lower...
Taylor Wells, Tailwalker Fly FishingMarch Browns are the main item on the menu in terms of dries. The skwalas seem to be tapering off, but fish are still reacting to them. There are a ton of differ...



























