Making a Reservation for your guided day on the Fall River

Fall River requires both specialized equipment and experience to be successful, and our guide team has both. Equally critical is the fact that our clientele gain access to the river at one of the finest, most private, and exclusive points on the river, our own Riverside.

Our guide staff is among the best in the industry, and our guide and Private Waters management team will work hard to make sure that you’re placed with the right guide for your specific needs. We've been putting together guided fishing trips for three decades, and have the experience to coordinate a memorable day on the water for just about any group. Over the years, we’ve developed a few guidelines to help ensure that your trip is as successful as possible.

We can work with you to select a guide that's matched to your skills, interests, their specialty or, perhaps, the equipment involved. Some of our guides are more instruction-oriented than others and are better suited for the novice wanting to combine a day of guided fishing with a learning experience, while others just plain know how to catch fish.

If you have a specific request or have been with us before, we can help reserve guide dates with one of your favorite guides based on that guide’s specific availability. If not, we’re happy to hook you up with one of several of our guides who specialize on our Northern California freestone streams.

Full Day Trips

We only offer full day trips on the Fall River. The resident rainbow trout on Fall River have a tendency to feed sporadically at times, resulting in periods of very productive fishing and patches of down time in between hatches. Full-day trips include eight to nine hours of fishing time, and the start times can be adjusted whenever possible to have you on the water during the most productive times of the day.

Guides are a very effective way to learn the nuances and specialized techniques necessary to accelerate the learning curve and to be successful on the Fall River. Combine that with the lack of public access and specialized equipment required to fish the river, and hiring a guide is almost always the best option – and sometimes the only option – for fly fishing on the Fall Fiver.

Multi-Day Trips

It’s easy to schedule a multi-day guided trip combining several different fly fishing destinations. One of the truly remarkable aspects to our northern California region is the incredible diversity in angling opportunities. Within a comfortable drive from our home base here in Redding, we have access to seven phenomenal trout streams and rivers, four steelhead destinations, and countless lakes, small streams, and bass ponds.

Fall River is within easy striking distance of the Upper Sacramento, McCloud, Pit River, and Hat Creek, and it’s a simple matter to schedule a multi-day guided trip combining two or more of these fine trout streams. There are several wonderful lakes in the region, and a guided trip on the Fall can be easily married on the front or back end of a visit to one of our nearby Private Waters destinations, especially Antelope Creek Lodge and Hat Creek Ranch.

Finally, our most popular guided destination, The Lower Sacramento River is approximately an hour and a half from the Fall River, and a popular choice for many anglers from May through October is to begin or end a trip to Fall River with a float trip on the Lower Sacramento.

Our guides can fish just about anywhere, and we often arrange a flexible schedule, determining the final itinerary just prior to the trip based on up-to-the-minute stream and fishing conditions, further guaranteeing that you’ll end up in the right place at the right time.

Group Trips or Fall River Orientation

Fall River can be tough, even for the experienced angler. Guests staying at Riverside, Circle 7, or Spinnerfall Lodge often use one or more of our guides to orient themselves and familiarize the individual angler or the entire group with the geography, techniques, and choices of terminal tackle necessary for success on this spectacular spring creek system.

Guided Fishing Days Include:

• Lunch is provided on full day trips. Please give us a call if you have special dietary needs. Guides always carry a full cooler with plenty of water and soft drinks.
  
• Guides do not typically provide the tippet and flies for your trip. If you are just getting started in the sport, or will be traveling and don’t want to hassle with dragging along all of your gear, you may want to consider our guide trip “Package Deal.” This inclusive option is only an additional $50 per day, and with it the guides will provide the necessary rods, reels, flies, tackle and equipment to ensure that you have the right gear and flies for the day. If you're an experienced angler and/or fly tier, call ahead and we'll let you know exactly what flies are producing so you can be sure to tie them beforehand or bring them along.
  
• Waders are not needed for guided trips on Fall River. Fishing on the Fall is done entirely from boats, and there is no shore access.
  
• Car Shuttles are not necessary on Fall River. You will begin and end each day at our exclusive Riverside launch site.
  

Making a reservation

To make a reservation, please give us a call at 800-669-3474 during business hours any day of the week. We can give you the answers you need or the detailed explanations to questions you might have, or check on guide availability and confirm your guide reservation in minutes.

If you prefer to correspond on-line simply e-mail Michael Caranci and he will respond promptly.

• Season... Last Saturday in April through November 15.
  
• Species... Rainbow Trout
  
• Fee... $400 for 2 anglers, or $450 for the inclusive “Package Deal” (described above).
  
• Occupancy... 2 Anglers maximum per guide.
  The small, specialized shallow draft prams required for fishing Fall River can only accommodate a maximum of 2 anglers plus the guide.
  
• Includes... 8-10 hours of guided wade fishing with lunch provided.