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I fished the Lower Sacramento River yesterday for 2 hours and landed 2 nice fish.

Caddis pupa – olive ice dub #16 worked for me.

Thanks for the visit!

Between Duck Hunting (a 30 year tradition) with my 2 new labs “Pesto” & “Pasta”  and Steelhead Fishing (I’m a newbie) this winter has been filled with outdoor fun.  When it rains you can rest assured I’m smiling and in a state of total confusion.  Should I grab the rod or the shotgun… oh boy!

A Limit of Mallard and Sprig at Lower Klamath with “Shasta” and “Pasta” (black lab)

A limit of ducks with “Pesto” and “Shasta”.  Pesto is on the left.  Uncle Joe & Dad on a day where the wind blew 55 mph for 3 hours.  3 boats were lost in LK Refuge that day.

A couple of my fishing buddies are having a good season on the Trinty.

Had a fun outing yesterday with my Dad on the Trinity.

Landed 1 wild fish on a red copper john #14.

Also had another grab on the Red Copper John and ended up with 1 fish scale.

Best part of the day was the accumulation of “thigamabobbers” that ended up in a back eddy.  I ended up with 5

new “ma bobbers”

I recently fished the Trinity River with a friend and had the fortunate opportunity to cast to rising steelhead.

Steelhead on the Trinity River

The Trinity is incredibly peaceful this time of year.  Property along this river is a great value for the avid Fly Fisher.

We had success on really light gear and very natural looking bugs.

I created this fly fishing video of our trip just outside of the town of Lewiston.

Enjoy: http://www.vimeo.com/7998743

I fished the Sun Dial Riffle yesterday afternoon and ran into a newly transplanted visitor to the Redding California Area from Australia.  The fishing was slow and the number of Salmon in the river are limited.  I had success on  a Tungsten Bead Copper John Rubber Leg size #14 2457 hook.  Everything else (I changed flies 15 times in the hour and half I fished) was not successful in generating any takes.

The fishing has picked up in and around Dunsmuir all the way down to La Moine.

Possie Buggers #12 and micro may flies have worked well for my clients.

This was a getaway day for me on the Upper Sac… take a look:

Upper Sacramento River Fly Fishing

The flows are low and the rainbows are hungry.

19" rainbow from the Lower Sacramento River

This fish was taken on a dry fly: spotlight emerging caddis

I spent time with Muriel, Robert & Charles Angle on the Upper Sacramento River Fly Fishing for beautiful rainbow trout. This was their 2nd fly fishing experience and everyone “hooked-up” with some the Upper Sac local residents

Charles and I worked this stretch and managed to land several fish on an assortment of flies: #12 Possie Bugger, #14 Prince Nymph & #20 glass bead micro may fly. I’m more convinced the right presentation is more important than the correct fly. Additionally, the harmony between to the right fly (guide) and right presentation (angler/client) is what I call MoJoBella.

Fished Sun Dial Bridge to Aqua Golf last night.  Fish were rising for Caddis.  Amber princes and tan poopah were the ticket.  Flows dropped below 6k CFS today.  Landed 6 fish with about 10 hook ups for 2 hours.  Rainbows were up to 19 inches.  No boats… nice change