The Yuba River

The Yuba River is one of the closest blue ribbon trout fisheries to the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. A year round fishery, the Yuba offers opportunities to fly fish for rainbow trout throughout the year. It is known for its incredible hatches and hard fighting wild rainbow trout.

Although the Yuba River has healthy numbers of resident Trout and Steelhead throughout the year, the often inconsistent flows and conditions make spring the best time of the year to target fish on dry flies. This is when our fly fishing guides focus their attention on the Yuba, from mid-February through April. Dry fly fishing is at its finest, and anglers enjoy opportunities throughout the day of sight casting to rising fish.

Seasons

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Fly Fishing on the Yuba

Starting around the middle of February, Skwala Stoneflies start their annual migration towards the Yuba River's gravel-lined shores, driving the Trout crazy for the huge food source. As the Skwalas slowly start to wind down in early March, they are replaced by another large and scrumptious aquatic insect: the March Brown Mayfly provides great top-water action from March through April. Amongst these two main hatches, minor hatches of PMD's, Baetis, and Caddis hatch throughout the spring, often affording sporadic feeding flurries from hungry trout.

In addition to the fantastic dry fly fishing, the Yuba is famed for its strong, hard-fighting fish. Many of these wild Rainbow Trout exhibit frequent reel-burning runs and red-sided aerial displays. Each and every one of these fish, especially when taken on a dry fly, will erase all memories of "the one that got away."

Our guide staff loves to be drift boating on the Yuba during it's peak dry fly activity and would love to share this experience with you. They are trained experts that we will help you to have the ultimate fly fishing experience.

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.

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