Making a Reservation

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. A few of our guides also have the specialized equipment, such as jet boats, necessary to successfully target shad in the summer months and sometimes steelhead in the fall.

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.

Half Day Float Trips

We offer both full day and half day float trips on the Lower Sacramento River. While full day trips are certainly the most popular option to maximize the time on the water, half day trips can be a great option for getting an introduction to our area, starting to learn the basics of fly fishing, getting a few hours of fishing in when a full day just isn’t in the schedule, or simply taking advantage of the great evening fishing opportunities during the long days of summer. In fact, the half-day evening drifts are quickly becoming one of our favorite ways to target the Lower Sac’s rainbows during the summer months.

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.

The Lower Sacramento River is, by far, our most popular guided destination, and there are half a dozen very different float trip options along the nearly 30 mile-long stretch of river below Shasta dam. Many of our guests simply enjoy floating and fly fishing the many different sections of the river, while other anglers may choose to combine a day or two prospecting the Lower Sac followed by a trip to either the Trinity, Klamath, Fall River, Hat Creek, Upper Sacramento, McCloud, or Pit River.

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.

Another popular multi-day option is combining a guided trip on either end of a stay at one of our many excellent private waters. Finally, guides can also be provided for any of our Private Waters destinations. Often they can be used to accelerate the learning curve at places like Riverside on Fall River or at Antelope Creek Ranch, familiarizing you and/or your group with the terrain, techniques, and choices of terminal tackle.

Group Trips

The best option in northern California for groups of 4 (to up to two dozen) anglers or more is a drift trip on the Lower Sacramento. Multi-boat trips with friends, family, or even business associates can be a great way to introduce others to the sport with guaranteed success. The Lower Sacramento is a big river, enabling several boats to float the same section without being on top of each other, but still rendezvous on the river for lunch with time to share a few photos or fish stories throughout the course of the day.

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.

Car shuttles are not included in the price of the trip. Guides will most likely ask you to help them run a shuttle on the morning of the trip, using your vehicle to shuttle their trucks/trailers to the takeout point, and they will give you a ride back to your vehicle at the end of the day. If you won’t have a vehicle, or if you’d prefer to not help with the shuttle, you are welcome to pay for a shuttle on the morning of the trip.

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. Almost all of our guided trips on the Lower Sacramento begin by meeting your guide here at The Fly Shop, so guides can always recommend exactly the flies that are working for them on the morning of the trip, too.

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 us at info@adventuresinflyfishing.com and we will respond promptly.

• Season... Year 'Round
• Species... Rainbow Trout & Steelhead (seasonal)
• Fee... $360 for 2 anglers, or $410 for the inclusive “Package Deal” (described above).
  (Jetboats have an additional $50 fuel surcharge)
  $260 for Half-Day Trips (includes 4-5 hours on the water; lunch is not included on half-day trips)
• Occupancy... 2 Anglers maximum per guide.
  We do have several guides with drift boats large enough to accommodate 3 anglers. There is an additional $75 fee for a 3rd angler.
• Includes... 8-10 hours of guided drift boat fishing with lunch provided for one or two anglers.