The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Thanks for the replies. I had read on another forum about the mouth of the Russian being closing. I didn't realize the County of Sonoma was manually breaching the sandbar. Is there any way to find out when the County opens the sandbar? Its been tough reading the positive reports of the shad action in the valley rivers and yet nothing really happening on the Russian...not to mention I have been really pumped to chase shad after reading Phil's article. In any case, I may take a crack at the Russian this evening.