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Okay Spent the day with John and Doug on the Yuba today. Fishing was a little on and off. We had a good number of grabs in the morning and netted two really nice rainbows, but by 11 am, the fish took the rest of the day off. Beautiful weather and great company more than made up for it. |
Good The Lower Sac fished pretty good for us today. We landed a few big 18-20 rainbows and decent numbers of small and medium-sized fish. The fish are moving back into normal trout water now that the salmon spawn and egg bite is tapering off. We picked up fish on a variety of trout nymphs and egg patterns today. The river has dropped to 4500cfs and will drop down to 4250cfs by Monday. |
Great The Trinity fished very well for us today. Mike and Alex landed several adult steelhead each. Alex, who is new to fly fishing for steelhead, is probably ruined for it after his experience today. He learned the casting and dead-drifting techniques quickly and was rewarded with 3 adults and 2 half-pounders in the net. Mike did very well also. Nice job guys!This past weekend was the busiest yet this season with tons of fisherman on the river. Today was surprisingly uncrowded.  Mike's last fish of the day  Mike with the first fish of the day  Alex with one of many |
Andrew Harris will be at the Chico Area Flyfishers club on Wednesday Nov 11th. His presentation will be about the Pit River. The meeting starts at 7:30pm at the California Park Pavilion, 2365 California Park Dr, Chico. Andrew has hundreds of Pit River guide trips under his belt - come to the meeting and learn about this great California trout stream! |
Randy Hamann just had a cancellation for a Trinity River trip this coming Tuesday/Wednesday, Nov 10-11. Get in touch ASAP if you would like to book these prime dates! |
Great Fishing is back to great again on the Lower Sac. We boated really good numbers of rainbow trout the last two days. Fishing pressure has dropped dramatically now that the salmon spawn has slowed down and a lot of guides have moved on to the Trinity and other destinations. We only saw one other drift boat all day yesterday and just a handful today. There are still good numbers of salmon on redds and the trout are mostly focused on eggs. We actually caught a trout on a nymph today, believe it or not. The rainbows have been big fat and healthy with fish up to 18 landed every day. We landed a nice 20 trout today that was about 3 pounds.  Mark with the big fish of the day  Birthday Boy Pete with a nice one |
Great The last week on the Trinity has been great. I spent a few days on the lower section of the river swinging flies and working with clients on spey casting technique. While there didn't seem to be as many fish in this section of the river, it was nice to get out of the crowds and mayhem of the upper river. We even hooked into a few nice fish. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the upper/middle river the nymph grab was on. The small amount of rain we got on Saturday has brought in a fresh pulse of grabby fish. There were a quality amount of adult steelhead caught this weekend. The only downside was the crowds. As November progresses we should see the fish spreading out more along with the hordes of anglers.  Mark with a large wild buck. A nice job handling the fish!  Stephen bombing a cast out there.  Did some filming for an upcoming project with Trout Unlimited, check out that drone!  Nice wild buck Kevin  Carrie with some speed on his spey cast.  My favorite fall colors  Father and son duo Ted and Zach with Zach's first steelhead. It was a wild one!  A birds eye view |
Great I had a Great day yesterday with husband and wife Hayden and Sara from Woodland. Fishing started a little slow but quickly picked up when we encountered a fresh push of 6-8 lb hatchery steelhead, all bucks ! I think the little bit of rain we have had recently is getting fish to move and currently there are good numbers from Lewiston to Pigeon Point.  a beauty  Great clients, Great fish Great Day ! |
Great I spent the last 3 days on Lewiston lake with Al & Emil, the fishing was stellar, most of the Rainbow's were in the 12 - 14 range with a few up to 16. Lewiston should continue to fish well this Fall and even into the Winter depending on water temps. If you don't have time this Fall, book a trip for this coming Spring, April can be OUTSTANDING !  Great Scenery  Doubles were not uncommon  Fish On ! |
We just had two cancellations for some prime November Trinity River dates. Randy Hamann is now available on Nov 10-11 and Gino Bernero is suddenly available for Nov 16-17. These are some of the most highly-requested dates for the Trinity River steelhead season. Call Andrew Harris at 888-481-1650 if you would like to pick up some of these dates. |
Good Fishing is good on the Lower Sac right now. The egg grab is good but the fish are a lot smarter and the grabs much quicker than earlier in the month. My clients Mark and son Matt from Reno both landed quality fish today in the 18-20 range.  Mark knows how to hold a fish  Matt is a fishing machine |
Okay Despite extremely low water fresh steelhead continue to trickle in to the Trinity, seems to be about a 50/50 mix of hatchery and wild. The flows have been UNDER 300 cfs in the Junction City, the lowest I think in more then a decade or more ! We've been boating a fair amount of adults considering the conditions.  bad photo of a nice one ! |
Great We had a great day of wade fishing today on the Lower Sac. My clients Curt and Chris caught rainbows up to 18 on a variety of techniques. We spent most of the day swinging flies with light spey rods. That was the most productive technique, but we also landed fish on dry flies, hopper/dropper, and dead-drifted glo bugs. We landed a lot of fat, healthy 16 rainbows today. |
Good Here is a photo of Brian Kohlman and client Julia with her first ever Lower Sac rainbow. Great fish! |
Good Gino just forwarded this photo from the Rogue river - 2nd fish of the day.  Advanced spey pose |
Great I spent the last two days guiding Danny and son Miles, 13 from the Napa area. This was Miles' first fishing trip and he learned the ropes very quickly. We fished up in Redding the first day and landed some really nice fish in the 17-19 range. Today we fished closer to Red Bluff. We caught a LOT of fish today, but they were more medium-sized. It was a really fun day with tons of action and very few other anglers around.  Miles with a great wild rainbow trout  Miles' first fish of the trip  Danny with a good firm grip on a nice rainbow |
Good I guided Rob and Topher from Sacramento today. We started the day with a drift from Bonnyview to Anderson and then finished the day with an afternoon fishing around the Sundial Bridge. Fishing was mixed but when we found fish, they came in numbers. We had most of our encounters in three different spots. Rob had multiple hook-ups on the day getting two really nice 16+ inch rainbows to net. Topher hooked up on multiple fish and had an epic battle in the last minutes of the drift with a dandy that broke our hearts. |
Great The Trinity River fished very well for us today. My client Bill put 5 adult steelhead in the net and had a fantastic time. We hooked fish in several different spots and saw good numbers of fish in the various runs that we fished. These fish ate lots of different fly patterns, too. Stay tuned for more Trinity River reports in the next few weeks.  Nice hat Bill!  Bill let me pose with this one |
Red Hot The fishing pressure has been very heavy recently, so we've had to work very hard for our fish - but that is starting to change. I've started to see more salmon in the past 5-6 days, so it looks like the egg bite will run a little later than normal. The fish are really starting to key on egg patterns and we've been hooking a lot of big fish the past week. I'm thinking this will last into early-mid November. It's not too late to book your Lower Sac trip for early November! |
Great Today I had the pleasure of drifting the Lower-Sac with John & Jimmy from Sacramento and St. Louis. 35 mph winds made fishing challenging today, however the boys brought several beautiful rainbows to the net. The egg bite is definitely on. This is a great time of year to fish this river! |
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