The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Alright.......it has been a while since my last post. I have been on the water everyday for the last two weeks and below you can find what I have seen and saw. There are lots of people fishing out there but this is an honest and straight forward fishing report. Enjoy!

Here is the current fishing report:

Feather: The BIG news is that there are tons of salmon in the Feather. It looks like it did 8-10 years ago. Right now there are too many salmon in the way! So get pumped because it is setting up like a huge year over there. I have already guided it twice and there is fish in the system. One day hooked 14 fish and the other 10. A mix of adults and half pounders between 24-18". I am excited to see what November is going to hold. Hot flies are eggs!!

Lower Sac: The Sac has had an interesting month thus far. The salmon are really late. Fish are still moving into the system daily. It is setting up like the egg bite is going to happen the last week of October. Currently we are still fishing nymphs. I had a 30+ fish day today and never tied an egg on. Don't these salmon know that it is October? Wait maybe the 93 degree weather has them confused. The egg bite is going to happen it is just going to be later in the month. Hot flies have been tan pupahs, micro mays, birds nest, red copper johns, etc.

Lower Lower Sac: I have spent four days this week fishing below Red Bluff. The trout fishing has been solid with all days resulting in 20+ rainbows. Every day we are hooking steelhead. Once again it has been a mix of half pounders and adults. This week I had clients hook 2 big 8lb fish on this lower drift. One big buck just kicked our butt and the other hen we had right to the boat before we lost her. I was seriously heart broken. The numbers of steelhead has been good. Expect the numbers to keep increasing over the next month. The later you get into November the better this drift becomes. Hot flies have been rubberlegs, red copper johns, micro mays, etc.

Yuba: The Yuba is back to its normal self. For those of you that were lucky enough to fish this river from the middle of September to the first of October it was truly impressive. The Yuba had a big early push of salmon and it got all of those trout fired up. We were averaging 30+ hookups for three weeks. But now it is back to normal with my last three days out there giving up about 20 hookups. The hot bugs have been eggs and small mayfly nymphs.


Well that is what I have seen.....hope this helps you guys out.

Tight Lines!

Thanks, Ryan. Monterey Fly Flingers will be up there in a week for a few days. Sounds like they will hit it just about right.

Hi Ed

when and where does the club meet? My financial guy lives over there and might be interested in joining.

Hope things are going well for you. How was yours and Charlie's trip back east to Colorado?

John

John,

Club meets the first Tuesday of the month, 7 PM, usually at the Carmel Waste Water Management District conference Room, 3945 Rio Road, Carmel.

Speaker this month is Bob Laskodi [NorCal Bob] on "Alaska on the Fly, on the Cheap"

http://www...ulaFlycasters/Index.html

Come on over!!