In one of the alltime great puffball interviews, The Helium Report (yes, the interview and listing was simply bought and paid for) interviewed the Spring Ridge Club CEO and Founder, Donny Beaver.
Beaver graciously takes the credit for “conserving” pretty much every trout on the Eastern Seaboard, yet fails to mention he also unlawfully prevented access […]

With cabin fever settling in for the duration and the Upper Sacramento fishing slower than in previous winters, it’s not hard to look ahead to warmer days.
I don’t know about you, but bouncing around inside my head are detailed (and mostly unrealistic) plans for 2007’s fishing trips, and while some of them might actually come […]

After working the last three weekends, I’m taking Monday off and fly fishing the Rogue with Dave Roberts.

Flows are good, but it’s been damned cold. Neither of us has a clue what’s happening. Flavs? BWO’s? Nothing?
In truth, it doesn’t matter. We’re going to fish some nice bamboo fly rods - maybe even catch a steelhead.
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Several years ago - when Chris Raine led the fight to open the Upper Sacramento River to catch & release fishing in the winter - there was a surprising amount of resistance.
Most of it was due to fears about damage to the resource (e.g. anglers trampling the spawing beds), some fish and game promised to […]

While I’m happy to catch a trout with almost any color spots on it, Dave of the Fly Fishing for Native Trout blog wants one of each.
To that end, he’s been chasing California’s native trout for years, and chronicled the completion of his quest in this California Heritage Trout post.
It’s definitely worth a read.
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The Wayward blog might be the fly fishing blogosphere’s answer to Andy Rooney.
His latest post chronicles his descent into madness when brown trout attack his indicator instead of his carefully chosen nymph.
Here’s the Money Quote:
Or maybe I should gang my flies: a BWO under a woolly bugger, which is under a floating muddler, which is […]

The first thing Chris said when I called him was “Last year on this day I had one of the best BWO hatches I’ve ever seen on this river.”
Talk about front-loading the conversation.
In truth, it didn’t matter - it was Thursday and I was going fishing, good omens or not. And frankly, things looked pretty […]

Undergrounders! It’s dark, and I just got back from an afternoon on the river. The L&T Nancy and I are going out to dinner before she leaves on a business trip, so I’ll post a story and pictures tomorrow.
I will say it was beautiful out there, and throwing an October Caddis dry worked well enough, […]

Another rainy day, and after yesterday’s #22 BWO shock therapy, I’d love to report that I showed up back at the river wholly prepared to catch the “hound” out of ‘em, but the truth is a little less pretty.
But first, a rainy moment of zen:

The Upper Sacramento River. What a dump.
With the rain coming […]

With the days sunny and warm and the nights right around freezing, the fall colors just keep hanging in there. Soon we’ll get a cold snap and the hard frosts that follow, dropping the leaves and killing off the October Caddis in droves.
That’s when the spent-wing October Caddis patterns really work, but everybody’s gone […]

If it didn’t end up in the grips of a cold, get-out-the-snow-shovel winter, fall would be my favorite time of the year. The fall colors induce vacant stares, the fishing can be spectacular, the flows are reliable (unlike spring), and the falling temperatures give the air a cool, hard-edged feel.
Of course, fall has its darker […]

Hugh Koontz writes fishing columns for the Shelbyville Star newspaper, and in the past he’s been panned for including horrifically overblown metaphors into his columns. I published them, and much hilarity ensued.
Just recently I checked back with our metaphorically hyper-charged friend and it looks like Hugh has cleaned up his act. Minus the hyperbole, his […]