LOWER YUBA
River flows are 920cfs, water is clear with temperatures in the low fifties.  A few minor hatches of stoneflies, BWO’s and caddis are sporadically occurring.  I would rate the fishing as fair.
Surprisingly, the dry fly action is good.  What few hatches there are, have the fish looking up.  We have been using #14 olive E/C Caddis, #8 3x [...]

To paraphrase Thomas Wolfe “you can never go home again”.  Pat and I recently traveled back to New England to visit my old home town of Alstead, New Hampshire and do a little fishing in the storied waters of the Catskills “the birthplace of American fly fishing”.
The town of Alstead is still as quiet [...]

On the first of October, the Gold Country Fly Fishers had an outing on the North Yuba led by yours truly.  There was a total of seven of us; a nice sized group that didn’t require trying to spread everybody over miles of river.  Due to the higher than normal flows, we decided to [...]

Flows on the North Yuba have held fairly consistently at a little over 200 cfs for the past few weeks.  That flow is approximately the normal flow at the beginning of August during the last few years.  The water is cool, in the mid-fifties, and clear.  Fly fishing has been good for fish in the [...]

Pat and I recently returned from a combination family and fishing trip in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  Sure took care of the problem of California’s high water!  We fished a few of the streams in the “Driftless Country” again as we did two years ago.  Returned to a couple of favorites like Trout Run in Minnesota [...]

The last couple of weeks have been busy what with fishing and photography.  Last weekend, I took a three day photography workshop, sponsored by Blue Fountain Farms, given by Gregg Albracht from Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Gregg is known for his horse photography.  We visited several horse farms around Nevada County and got to photograph horses [...]

It has been awhile since I updated the blog but with the snow, rain and cold, the fishing has been poor to say the least.  Right now, the Lower Yuba is flowing over 8000cfs and the North Yuba is over 2700cfs.  Neither one is conducive to fly fishing.  At this point, I can’t even [...]

As I sit here tonight (2/17/11), the temperature is 31 degrees, there is two inches of snow on the ground and the Lower Yuba has gone from 2000cfs to over 4000cfs, which includes a huge amount from Deer Creek.  Not a whole lot of fishing going on right now!
I spent the afternoon tying red, [...]

During the first week in June this year, Pat and I ventured to Bailey Creek Lodge in Manton, California.  We had seen their brochure several times and both of us had decided that it looked like a nice place for a cozy weekend.
The lodge has two freestone streams available (Bailey Creek and Rock Creek) [...]

Well, it has been a while since I have added to this blog due to fishing trips including trips to Bailey Creek Lodge(more on this trip later) and Alaska.  Hopefully, I will be more attentive from now on!
Pat and I have just arrived back from a two week trip to Alaska; a [...]