Redding Fly Fishing Guide

Springtime Caddis Hatch on the Lower Sac

Rainbow — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:18:37 +0000

Had a good outing with my client on the Lower Sac on Saturday. The Caddis Hatch was thick from 11-3pm. The water color was very green about 3 ft. of visibility. We landed 5 fish. And had 1 broken oar

The hybrid oar fix made the fish pic for the day. The fishing should pick up as the water clears. We had most of our success on the Springtime Poopah size #16.

River Front Property For Sale

Rainbow — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:30:20 +0000

I recently passed my real estate test and I’m going to begin helping people buy and sell real estate. I’ll specialize in River Front Property and market properties with the use of Video.

Take a look at 3 properties I recently produced videos for (these can also be found at www.riverpropertytours.com:

Feels Like Spring

Rainbow — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:49:07 +0000

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!

Winter BLISS or Total Confusion

Rainbow — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:10 +0000

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.

Steelhead on The Trinity

Rainbow — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:24:54 +0000

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

Trinity Steelhead

Rainbow — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:16:53 +0000

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”

Trinity River 2009

Rainbow — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:56:37 +0000

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

Golden Stone

Rainbow — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:56:06 +0000

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.

October Caddis Hatch Upper Sacramento River

Rainbow — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000

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

Sun Dial to Bechelli Lane Drift

Rainbow — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:30:09 +0000

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