It’s rained pretty much non-stop the last three days, and as the low-altitude snow disappears, the Upper Sac keeps growing bigger and meaner.
This happens every time a warm storm rolls into town during the winter, and while temperatures could drop enough to generate a little snow later in the week, it’s clear there isn’t any Upper Sacramento fly fishing in my immediate future.
Chris Raine called with news of a four-foot hydraulic “pillow” replacing a favorite bankside fishing spot on the river, and we’re hoping to lay our hands on his photo of a helgrammite attempting to flee the carnage with an ill-advised crossing of Dunsmuir’s River Road.
In true outdoor writer fashion, I could pretend at outrage, cursing the elements for violating my inalienable right to fly fish (I’m pretty sure it’s guaranteed by the UN), but in truth, we need the precip, and if it’s gotta happen, it might as well happen while I’m hard at work developing and teaching an Online Marketing Boot Camp for a local economic development organization.
Like many of you, I remain amazed at how often work responsibilities cut into my valuable spare time.
Barring a few billion bailout dollars coming my way, it looks as if that ugly trend will continue. Damn.
See you anywhere but the river, Tom Chandler.
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Hey man, could be worst. My favorite Rivers have been frozen for almost 3 months, and when they unfreeze there is an 85% chance my town gets swallowed before the waters retreat. Benjamin Rioux(Quote)
Well there is a bright side…local news reported Lake Shasta has risen 36′ since February 15th….guess water does run down hill after all. Oh buy the way, they also stated more (much more) to come so don’t make plans for the weekend. samistopdog(Quote)
Hey Thomas……I always fish on my birthday hell or high water, a tradition. Yesterday Andrew and I went down to one of my high water spots . We found our river looking like a big brown speedway with trees ,basketballs, lawn chairs and other debris racing down towards Shasta lake goin fast too! We found a secondary channel where the fish had to be. After fishing from from trees and blackberry bushes and getting nuttin we decided to go home for hot coffee and Chocolate Cake. Come over for some cake……..wayne wayne eng(Quote)
Hey Wayne, I gave you some props on the FOR blog. Hope you are doing well.
http://calrivers.blogspot.com/ Bjorn(Quote)
Raining a ton in the Pacific Northwest too…luckily the fishing is not that great during this time of the year anyway.
-Brad at ROW ROW Adventures(Quote)