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Fishing Report

Lower Yuba & Valley Steelhead Fly Fishing Report
American RiverNov 8, 2025
Lower Yuba & Valley Steelhead Fly Fishing Report

  Captain Ben Thompson Reports on November 8th, 2025 Lower Yuba Report: Flows have been sitting pretty steady at a little over 1,100 CFS, on the Lower Yuba. With salmon still around, eggs have be...

Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverSep 20, 2025
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Ben Thompson Reports on September 19th, 2025 Lower Yuba Report: Fall is upon us and the transitioning of the seasons is happening. Salmon are moving into the river and being seen daily. I have se...

Sacramento Striper & Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report
Lower Sacramento RiverAug 16, 2025
Sacramento Striper & Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Captain Ben Thompson Reports on August 14th, 2025 River Striper Report: Flows have dropped and settled in around 5,000cfs. Stripers have been keyed up! In the last week and a half we have been cat...

Sac Striper & Lower Yuba Trout Fly Fishing Report
Lower Sacramento RiverJul 23, 2025
Sac Striper & Lower Yuba Trout Fly Fishing Report

Captain Ben Thompson Reports on July 22nd, 2025   River Striper Report: The past few weeks have been a lot of fun on the river. Clarity has been great and it feels like proper summer. We have caug...

Lower Yuba River & Striper Fly Fishing Report
Lower Sacramento RiverJun 27, 2025
Lower Yuba River & Striper Fly Fishing Report

Captain Ben Thompson Reports on June 27th, 2025 Lower Yuba River trout: Flows are pretty steady around 2500 cfs. We are getting some hopper eats every trip, but the summer hopper fishing is not qu...

Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverMay 28, 2025
Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Ben Thompson reports on May 27th, 2025 Lower Yuba River Report: I did Lower Yuba trout trips the last two days and it is fishing well. It is sitting at 3300 cfs and is gin clear. This is a g...

Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverFeb 15, 2025
Lower Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Ben Thompson reports on February 13th, 2025 Lower Yuba report: Flows almost dropped enough to become fishable again yesterday, but have spiked again with the current storm. After this stor...

Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverJan 21, 2025
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Ben Thompson Reports on Janaury 20th, 2025   Lower Yuba River  I did multiple Yuba trips this past week and fishing was good-we have been consistently raising some fish on skwala dries. Over...

Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverDec 14, 2024
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Captain Ben Thompson Reports on December 12th, 2024   Lower Yuba River:The egg bite peaked a few weeks back, but there are currently still plenty of fish eating eggs. Salmon are still on redds in ...

Feather RiverJun 14, 2024
Ben Thompson Outdoors Fishing Report 6/14: River Stripers and the Lower Yuba

Ben Thompson Outdoors River Stripers River striper season is coming into shape for my favorite time of the year to chase linesiders. Some of the resident fish are starting to hang in their regular ...

American RiverMay 30, 2024
Brian Clemens Reports 05/29/24: Northern California Fishing

Brian Clemens Reports 05/29/24: Northern California Fishing   Northern California Fishing: We are finally seeing a huge drop down in flows as well as a flattened curve in flows across the board. T...

Feather RiverMay 30, 2024
Jay Clark Reports 05/29/24: Plumas County

Jay Clark Reports 05/29/24: Plumas County   Plumas County: Fishing remains very good on the Middle Fork Feather River in Plumas County. Flows are starting to get a bit low on the upper reaches wit...

Feather RiverMay 29, 2024
Matt Heron Reports 05/29/24: Truckee River Area

Matt Heron Reports 05/29/24: Truckee River Area   Truckee River Area: Again, not a lot to report as far as changes to the river this week. We’re continuing to see a Yo-Yo pattern with snowmelt and...

American RiverMay 29, 2024
Hogan Brown Reports 05/29/24: Lower Sacramento River Striper

Hogan Brown Reports 05/29/24: Lower Sacramento River Striper Lower Sacramento River Striper Fishing – Fishing has been fair to good. Flows dropped this Sunday with the latest “pulse flow” and th...

Feather RiverMay 9, 2024
Northern California Fly Fishing Report, Yuba, Sac Stripers, Feather River

Ben Thompson Reports on 5.9.2024 River Stripers- Fish are spread throughout the rivers with the majority around Colusa. It can get crowded until the end of May when most of the conventional boats t...

Nor Cal Trout Fishing - July 2023
American RiverJul 21, 2023
Nor Cal Trout Fishing - July 2023

 Nor Cal Trout Fishing - July 2023 Truckee River:   The Truckee has been fishing consistently throughout the summer! Both water color and temperature have been stellar. Flows were a little high ear...

American RiverApr 18, 2023
Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report April 2023

Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report 4/15/23 Spring Fishing has begun! We are stoked to have the report back up and running. We are now working with additional independent guides throughout Norther...

DeltaDec 14, 2022
Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report 12/14/22

Lost Coast Outfitters Fishing Report 12/14/22 Upper Sacramento: It’s winter, who knew?! Access is tough on upper river just due to snow. If you’re sniffing around the Upper Sac, stay below Conant ...

Central Valley Fly Fishing Report
Lower Sacramento RiverJun 25, 2020
Central Valley Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Hogan Brown Reports on 6.21.20 Valley River Striper fishing has been really turning on with the stable hot weather. We have been having a great time out on the river! Lots of fish, some swimm...

Central Valley Fly Fishing Report
Lower Sacramento RiverJun 11, 2020
Central Valley Fly Fishing Report

Hogan Brown Reports On 6.8.20 Happy June! Hopefully most graduations are out of the way and school is out for the kiddos AND people are planning or getting outdoors. Aside from a few days of apoc...

10 Tips to Make you a Better Angler
Deschutes RiverMay 22, 2020
10 Tips to Make you a Better Angler

LCO's Guide To Bugs & Rigging
Eastern SierraMay 22, 2020
LCO's Guide To Bugs & Rigging

Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report
Lower Yuba RiverJan 30, 2020
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi Reports on 1.30.2020 Conditions on the Lower Yuba River remain the same as the previous weeks except the trout are fully engaged on the Skwala stonefly, and actively looking for them i...

American RiverJan 2, 2020
Northern California Fly Fishing Report

Brian Clemens Reports on Happy New Years Everyone, I am hoping that everyone had a great and safe New Year and a very Merry Christmas. Where did the 2019 season go? Cant believe 2020 is already he...

Valley Stripers Fly Fishing Report
Yuba RiverJun 20, 2019
Valley Stripers Fly Fishing Report

OPEN DATES – IF YOU WANT TO GET ON MY CANCELATION LIST SHOOT ME AN EMAIL AS THERE ARE INEVTIABLY CANCELATIONS THAT COME UP. July 10, Aug 3, 31 Striper season is off and running and conditions are ...

Russian River, Yuba, and American Shad
American RiverMay 16, 2019
Russian River, Yuba, and American Shad

Shad are in! We have reports for the following rivers: Russian River Just came into shape, but then the recent rains and upcoming rains will likely affect the clarity.   American River A good numb...

Yuba RiverApr 4, 2019
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jordan Romeny reports on 4.4.19Currently just over 6000 cfs the Yuba has been inconsistently firing. One word to sum up the spring so far “volatile.” The windows of fishing open and shut quickly ri...

Yuba RiverMar 7, 2019
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 3.7.19YubaNot much of a report as we are entering our 6th week straight of fluctuating high water levels and varying degrees of turbidity. Currently, the Yuba is flowing at ...

Yuba RiverFeb 14, 2019
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jordan Romeny reports on 2.14.19Yuba Winter Report:We are in the midst of another very good water year. The snow reports in the Sierras are reaching 150% mark. Looks like we will have plenty of wat...

Yuba RiverJan 31, 2019
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 1.31.19Fishing is not nearly as good on the Lower Yuba River after the last series of big storms rolled on through, but fish are still being caught though. Flows are running...

Yuba RiverJan 31, 2019
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Hogan Brown reports 1.31.19Lower Yuba River I have been guiding the Lower Yuba recently by far more then any other place. With new private access and good conditions, it is has been a good op...

Yuba RiverJan 22, 2019
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 1.22.19Lower Yuba River UpdateThe past week has seen some gnarly weather here in Northern California. Big wind, heavy rain, and as of Monday morning low elevations snowfall ...

Yuba RiverJan 21, 2019
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Chuck Regan reports on 1.21.19Yuba RiverThis morning the Lower Yuba is flowing at just over 2,300cfs but it was double this over this past weekend.  Our hope is that the rain will push some m...

Yuba RiverJan 4, 2019
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 1.4.19Happy New Year! After a couple of rough months, I’m back in the saddle doing what I love, instructing anglers on the finer points of fly fishing and sharing my passion...

Yuba RiverNov 29, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jordan Romney reports on 11.29.18I think anglers have been sleeping under the rocks lately because we have had the river to ourselves. Winter is here, and it is starting out with a bang. I’ve been ...

Lower Yuba RiverNov 28, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 11.16.18Poor air quality conditions exist on the Lower Yuba River but fishing still remains decent for those that put in the work. Flows are stable at 993 cubes, just a tad ...

Yuba RiverNov 1, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Chuck Ragan reports on 11.1.18The Yuba River has been in great shape and the recent pulse flows proved to have been very beneficial at pushing some more salmon and steelhead up the river. Typically...

Feather RiverOct 25, 2018
Central Valley Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Chuck Ragan reports on 10.25.18It’s a great time of year to be on the water. Steelhead fishing in the Feather and Yuba River has been productive. Dry fly fishing in the Yuba as well has been ...

Yuba RiverOct 11, 2018
North Folk Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 10.11.18ishing has been really good on the North Fork Yuba River. It’s that time of year where nearly every body of water is on fire, fall ball is the best and an angler has...

Feather RiverOct 11, 2018
Yuba Striper Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Chuck Regan reports on 10.11.18Fall Fishing for resident Striper in some of our Northern California rivers (Sacramento, Feather, and Yuba Rivers) continues to prove it’s worth and has been le...

Yuba RiverSep 27, 2018
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 9.27.18Lower Yuba River ReportIt sure is nice to be working close to home again, in another month I will be making another transition to guiding the Lower Yuba River full ti...

Yuba RiverSep 6, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 9.6.18The canyon was buzzing with people over the holiday weekend and the river was fished over well in the more popular access areas. Change is in the air, and the seasons ...

Lower Yuba RiverAug 29, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jordan Romney reports on 8.29.18Yuba Fall ExpectationsThere has not been much buzz running around about the Yuba this past summer. I’ve been out there a handful of times lately with very positive r...

North Fork Yuba RiverAug 9, 2018
Northern Sierra Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 8.9.18Water levels in the upper watershed of the North Fork Yuba River are at their summer lows. The wild rainbows and occasional brown trout are now concentrated in the dee...

Yuba RiverJul 12, 2018
North Folk Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi reports on 7.12.18YubaSummertime mode is in full swing on the North Fork Yuba River, and the fishing is very good. The flows have dropped dramatically in the last two weeks making for ...

Feather RiverJun 21, 2018
Valley Striper Fly Fishing Report

Capt. Chuck Regan reports on 6.21.17Striper on the fly is heating up and there’s still plenty of shad to go around in our Nor Cal rivers.  The American, Feather, Yuba and Sac have all be producing ...

Lower Yuba RiverMar 9, 2018
Lower Yuba Fly Fishing Report

Hogan Brown Reports on 3.9.2018Been guiding the Lower Yuba River lately…river came up from 850cfs to 2500ish cfs this last weekend but has sense dropped down to 850cfs again. Fishing was fair at th...

Lower Yuba RiverMar 9, 2018
Yuba River Fly Fishing Report

Jon Baiocchi Reports on 3.7.2018In the last week the flows came up dramatically on the Lower Yuba River during and after our biggest storm of the winter season. The river topped out at 3,188 cubes ...