Upper Sac Salmon Season Starts With a Bang

Rods were bending, reels were screaming, nets were flying, and people were whooping it up! It was an exciting opening day for the upper Sacramento River above Red Bluff. At one point, I saw 8 fish on at once among the boats fishing that morning. Our clients did quite...

Upper Sac Salmon Opens August 1… and AK Update

The California Sacramento River salmon fishing season is off to a good start, but first, let me tell you about Alaska.   I’ve just returned from 40 days of king salmon guiding at the remote fly-in Togiak River Lodge.The fishing was great, and everyone had a...

Six days left, and salmon are still going crazy

“It’s Crazy How Many Fish There Are”  We’re getting close to the end of the Feather River salmon season on October 31… but the fishing is still excellent. It’s been a late run this year, and the salmon just keep on coming....

Exciting Salmon Fishing, With Bonus Steelhead

Nice salmon! Salmon, salmon, and more salmon! That’s what we’re catching every day now.The big numbers of ocean salmon we talked about earlier this year are finally coming up the rivers, and providing consistent action. The main body of the run showed up a...

It’s Salmon Time!

That’s a nice fish!/ It took a while this year, but king salmon (and some big ones!) are pouring into the local rivers. Bright fish, big fish, and even double hookups are on tap right now. We’re catching limits consistently, and there are a lot of salmon...

2019 King Salmon Season Begins

2019 salmon season is off to a great start The 2019 king salmon river season is finally here! It looks like it’s going to be a great season, with one of the biggest returns since 2002. Starting with opening day this week, lots of fish have been caught by anglers on...

The OTHER Salmon are Biting!

Hot Bite Fish Report 6-27-19 With the weekend coming up, it’s time for a quick hot bite report! Nice catch! While we wait for the widely anticipated river salmon season opener in July, the landlocked salmon in Lake Oroville are still biting well. The weather is still...
Lake Oroville Salmon are Biting!

Lake Oroville Salmon are Biting!

If you’ve thought about catching some of those feisty Lake Oroville landlocked salmon, now is a good time to be fishing for them. This year the Lake Oroville salmon are pretty good-sized. Not only that, but they are delicious too! These silver torpedoes normally...

Fishing Update and a Rare Sturgeon Opportunity

Local Fishing Update It’s almost June, and do you know what that means? Well, here in the North Valley, it means fishing is excellent all over! Acrobatic shad are running, landlocked Lake Oroville king salmon and bass are biting, and the world-class wild rainbow catch...

Spring Fishing Bonanza

So many fish, not enough time. That’s because the month of May is such a crazy time of year. Fish are biting everywhere, waking from their winter doldrums. We’ve got biting shad, trout, lake salmon and bass, stripers, the list goes on. Whatever kind of fishing you...