It's not surprising that quite a bit of water is set aside as fly fishing only, catch-and-release, with special closures and regulations designed to help ensure that the fishing around here will stay good for generations. The Fly Shop staff will custom-tailor the day and guide to your ability and interests, putting you on the best local water.

Current River Conditions: No big reports this week. Some anglers are doing pretty decent while others are struggling. Most of the fish still corralled up stream of Island road. Seems like stripping leeches and buggers on sinking lines is the most productive method. There's a PMD hatch around 11:00 AM that lasts 30 minutes one day, then more than an hour the next. Best approach is go looking to find a couple on dry flies and a couple on nymphs. Look for better reports in June!

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When you come, stay at Circle 7 Guest Ranch or Spinner Fall Lodge and have unfettered access to waters swimming with rainbows!

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Swinging #16 Pheasant Tail nymphs trailing #18-20 black Zebra midges or WD-40s is a basic fly rig and a perfect combo to start with any day on Fall River.

Look for mayfly hatches after 9:00 AM through 2:00 PM.

Fish the "swing" with fast sinking Poly Leaders. Sometimes, Normans Wiggle Tail PT swung on a long 40' swing will get you hooked up! Don't forget to fish olive and/or black leeches.

The "Fall River Twitch" has been a popular and effective technique on Fall River for decades. How to: Anchor your pram upstream of rising fish. Cast downstream and across, then feed line out to extend your drift a long ways downstream. The "Fall River Twitch" results in a presentation that lets the fish see your fly first, while you are positions upstream and out of the fished field of view. The Fall River Twitch is equally effective whether fishing dries, swinging nymphs or indicator nymphing. If you're casting to a pod of rising trout, work from the outside in and you can often pick them off one by one. 5-6wt rods are what we recommend for Fall River, with some anglers using 6wt. rods for casting heavier sinking lines. The Fly Shop® recommended fly lines; RIO Gold floating line and an extra spool loaded with RIO CamoLux.

Current River Conditions: Salmon fly time! Bring Salmon fly dries and fish'em under the over hanging branches, next to logs, by the cut bank. Look for the big fish below Highway 299. Wait for the winds to come up. The winds blow the Salmon Flies into the water. Fishing has been fun. Hey, there's even a good PMD hatch around 11:00 AM that gets some of the rainbows up on the surface. This is a great time of the year to walk the edges of Hat Creek mid day, searching for rising rainbows in the glassy flats.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Look for hatches of BWOs, PMDs and possibly a few Green Drakes. Best hatches occur late morning through early afternoon. Be on the look-out for rainbows and brown trout rising near the edges of the river for best chance at a hook-up.

A great option that often produces some of the very best Hat Creek "fish stories" is to fish #6-8 leeches, like Zack's Swimming Leech and buggers like Fox's Peacock Buggers near sunset.

Look for rising fish along the flats below the Power House #2 riffle in the early AM and very last light. For the best presentation, drift your D&D Cripple down and across to rising fish. For a fun challenge, try catching Hat Creek trout on as many tactics as you can: small indicators with nymphs, swinging wet flies and/or streamers, and, of course, with a well-presented dry fly. The Powerhouse #2 Riffle is one of the best spots on the creek, but also one of the most popular. Anglers seeking a real challenge should sight-cast to trout in the fabled "carbon flats" section, and those looking for solace can hike into the freestone section just above Lake Britton. 5wt rods are perfect. Have an extra spool loaded with a Scientific Anglers Wet Tip Clear Fly Line.

River Fact: It is true, the fact is Hat Creek acquired it's name because a surveyor lost his expensive hat there back in 1852. Folk lore supports the rumor that his friends laughed it up after listening to him cuss up a storm. In an impromptu witty ceremony, the creek was aptly named.

Current River Conditions: River flows are at 1200 cfs and the fishing has been fair. Expect to find a few rainbows on Prince Nymphs, Rubber Legs and maybe a Salmon Fly Dry. The Salmon flies should come off any day if they aren't already! We think a better report will happen next week. Maybe. Just wait. It will happen and hopefully you will be there for it! Not too many steelhead around. Some anglers are getting into a few fat 18" rainbows though!

River conditions are great along the entire stretch. Good time to go on a raft trip or get the kayak out on the river. Go enjoy!

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: It's late spring, almost summer and what is the best approach to fishing this river right now? Well, bring your 5wt or 6wt rod. 9' is fine. Fish Salmon Fly dry patterns with a #16-14 Prince Nymph dropping of of it. Or a Red Copper John in #18. Or a Zebra Midge. Nymphs suspended under indicators almost always produce hook-ups in the deeper slots and pools.

Fly rods from 6wt to 7wt are perfect in lengths of 9' to 9'.5. Switch rods are popular and make casting very easy. Spey rods fit in well on the Klamath river.

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Current River Conditions: River is in great conditions at 11,800 CFS. Fishing can be great one day, then tough the next. Talked with a couple anglers today that didn't get a single fish until they arrived just a few oar strokes from the boat ramp. And yet, the river fished great yesterday. Local knowledge will produce the results you are looking for.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: The hot flies have remained small dark #16 flies. Examples would be Dark Lords, Silvey's Beaded Poopah, Zack's Zaddis. #6 Pat's Rubber Legs has been a really good fly over the past couple months. We are seeing more and more PMDs and Pink Alberts (yes, it's called a "Pink Albert". I denied it for a long time, but after some research, that's what it's called. Can we have a better name?) coming off through the month of April and into May. Look for rising fish along the edges of long riffles, in the shallow water.

When it comes to trout fishing on the Lower Sacramento around Redding, CA., nymphing is by far the most productive fly fishing method. We fish deep on this river. Although a tapered leader will work when nymphing this river, we recommend constructing your leader out of 2X, 3X and 4X tippet or level fluorocarbon. Basically, tie in your 2X tippet at the indicator and pull off about 7.5-8.5 feet. Now grab your 3X and tie it in using a double surgeon knot to a length of 18"-24". Go ahead and tie in your first fly. The second fly drops off of the hook bend of the first fly. Use your 4X tippet to tie in the second, smaller fly. We like

Current River Conditions: Fishing great folks. Good insect hatches in the AM hours produce hook ups using a dry dropper rig. Expect Stone Fly hatches by June. The Salmon Flies have been active and a few reports of anglers having success on Salmon Fly Dries have come in. The McCloud is happening right now.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Fishing techniques vary during the spring on the McCloud. Fishing dry flies in the shallow tail-outs and lips of runs should tease up numbers of rainbows and brown trout. Fishing a big Stimulator dropping a Micro-May is a favorite approach. Suspending nymphs under indicators in the deeper slots, pockets and pools can keep a fly rod bent. Have split shot in sizes AB, AAA and SSG.

Wading boots with studs and a wading staff are a must on the McCloud, which is full of irregularly shaped rocks that can be very slick. The best results are produced by anglers who move from run to run. The more water you can cover, the more fish have a chance to see your fly, ultimately improving upon your existing good fortune of being out on the river, fishing! Be on the look-out for rattle snakes. Use a technique called High-stick-nymphing in the pocket water and deeper chutes. Re-fish all your way back to camp or the car throwing streamers into pocket water, next to downed trees/logs.

River Fact: The McCloud River rainbows (Salmo Shasta) may be the most famous strain of trout on the planet Earth. At the turn of the 19th century, these were the fish used to first stock most of New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and other potential trout fisheries all across the western hemisphere. So, that means we could trace Madison river (a river in Montana) rainbows back to the McCloud River!

Current River Conditions: The Pit River is fishing fair to good. The best action is late AM through early afternoon. Expect perfect conditions. The rainbows are there and we know that unless you are suspending your flies under an indicator with a dead drift presentation or high sticking the pockets, you won't do very well. The best fly on the Pit is split shot. Lot's of it!.

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Bring the wading staff! We highly recommend wearing a PFD (Personal Flotation Device) too. The Pit River is a demanding river to wade thanks to slippery, bowling-ball like boulders and rocks. Keeps the crowds down!

The Fly Shop's® Tips: When fishing indicators suspending #14-16 nymphs, don't put the flies so deep that your hitting bottom every drift. Put the flies up where the fish can see them. Show the rainbows a fly enough times and they will come to it. A #14-16 Pheasant Tail Nymph is a very consistent fly on the Pit. Under a medium sized indicator, fish a #6-8 Pat's rubber Legs and a #14 pheasant tail nymph or #14-16 prince nymph. Mercer's #16 black Micro-Mayfly is another great fly. High-stick and short line angling techniques are very, very effective on this stream.

Be ready for supremely tough wading conditions when fishing the Pit. Flat ground DOES NOT exist here! A wading staff really makes a difference for every angler who fishes here. Pack some dry clothes, snake kit and don't forget to dry out your fly-box at the end of the day! The Pit River rainbows will eat all day most of the time. These feisty fish can be found holding in fast bubbly water and in slower, smooth flowing water as well. High-stick and short line nymphing techniques are the key to finding the biggest rainbows on this river. Have plenty of BB, AAA and SSG split shot in your vest pocket. Feed lots of line and go for long drag free drifts, using an indicator and suspending flies 3 - 6 feet deep, in the long smooth glides between boulders and broken riffles. An there is no shortage of boulders, riffles, runs and pockets.

Current River Conditions: No big changes this week. We are sort of in between seasons on the Trinity. By mid summer the salmon fishing will kick off and then the steelhead will captivate us by Fall. For now, river flows are very high, near 2,000 cfs. Look for better reports by mid summer. Fishing is no so good unless you really know where to look. Stripping streamers will produce brown trout, sometimes, amazing brown trout! You could produce a great fishing report. Be the one! go get one of those hog browns and I'll post it here. Send photo here!

Flows will top out at 4,500 CFS by May 2nd. We won't see releases below 2,000 cfs until late May. What this means is the river will be difficult and dangerous to wade. We don't think the fishing will be any good for at least a few weeks although don't be surprised to read a good report or two from anglers searching for big browns that can be targeted with streamers and sinking lines during high water periods.

So, if you want to find great fishing near Lewiston, Ca. we recommend Lewiston Lake!

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: A variety of techniques, using your 8-9wt rod for Salmon (in July-August), or a more adaptable 5-6wt fly rod for small steelhead and aggressive browns will tie you into fish. Suspending nymphs under an indicator, stripping buggers and leeches, swinging muddlers or PT nymphs will produce hook-ups! Even dry flies should be in the plan. Bring a parachute Adams! Hey! In July-August, the King Salmon will eat nymphs suspended under indicators. What a blast!

River Fact: Sad to say, but Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia's father drowned in the Trinity River. While on vacation with his family near Arcata in Northern California in 1947, his father went fly-fishing in the Trinity River. Upon entering he slipped on a rock, plummeting into the deep rapids of the river. By the time he was pulled from the water, he had already drowned.

Current River Conditions: The Upper Sacramento is fishing fair to good as of this week. Seems like the best reports come out of the waters up near Dunsmuir. Reports along the lower river are improving. Insect hatches are best early in the morning through late morning. Fish #18-20 dark midge patterns for most consistent results.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Fish small #16-18 dark colored nymphs in addition to copper johns for best results. Have a few #16 Parachute Adams handy. Pat's rubber legs is another good fly to have in your fly box. The rainbows of the Upper Sacramento river eat flies that are served up deep, in the rocks. Sometimes the indicator gets in the way of detecting strikes. These fish are really good at sampling a pattern, then spitting it out. Try fishing using the "high-stick" and "short line" technique.

Fish woolly buggers!

When nymphing on the Upper Sacramento River, always use double the amount of shot in order to get the flies down to the fish in the faster, bubbly water. If a run calls for one SSG, put on two. If you're not ticking the bottom from time to time (yes, this means losing a few flies), you're probably not getting down to where the fish are feeding. Use stronger tippet like 2X-3X for bigger flies in the #6-10 range, 4X for smaller #16-18. Keep your first fly within 6-8 inches of your split shot. Stronger tippet means fewer flies will be left on the bottom of the river. Sink tip lines with streamers attached are a good plan when there is room to cast.

Current Lake Conditions: Fishing continues to be best in the AM hours. The afternoon lull lets you go explore Hat Creek or the Pit River.

Best flies are going to be #20 Zebra Midges, Mercer's Gidget or WD-40's. It's all about midge hatches right now. If you find fish rising, throw Harrop's Emerging Midge.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Fish midges all day! Look for occasional hatches of BWOs and PMDs that produce surface feeding and dry fly opportunities. Stripping and retrieving Leeches on intermediate sinking lines is a great tactic as is suspending #22 black Zebra Midges or Mercer's Gidget under a small indicator. Try a black A.P. on a slow retrieve. There are a lot of scuds in Baum Lake, making various scud patterns an obvious choice. Suggested leader selection consists of 9' 5x and a spool of 6X tippet for dry flies and the smallest nymphs.

Baum Lake is an ideal fishing destination for pontoon boats, float tubes and small prams.

Fishing an Intermediate sinking line with a small PT nymph can produce a bent fly rod. The key is SLOW strips! Nothing in Baum Lake is moving fast. Use lighter, longer leaders. Delicate dry-fly presentations will produce more strikes.

Lake Fact: Baum Lake is named after world renowned hydro electric pioneer Frank Baum. 1870-1932. Click here to read more.

Current Lake Conditions: Fishing has been okay. The trouble is the lake has come way up! So all those killer spots are now deeper and the fish have moved on. Look for the best results in the early AM hours before the sun is drilling the water. Fishing deep with sinking lines, Clouser Minnows or Woolly Buggers produces the best results.

When you go, bring Clouser Minnows, Crystal Buggers in an assortment of colors and a sinking line. Don't forget to bring a float tube and enjoy some solitary fly fishing. The nearby Pit River, offers excellent fishing for rainbows!!

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: The rainbows and browns will clobber nymphs stripped on floating lines or suspended under indicators. Bring a motorized boat, and fish near the inflow at the NE end of the lake. Try stripping buggers on a Type 7 full sinking line. Retrieving or stripping buggers and leech patterns seems to be the best, most productive method of fly fishing Iron Canyon at this time. Look for rainbows and browns along the edges of the lake.

You can fish this lake either one of two ways, indicator and nymphs or sinking lines and streamers. The midge hatches are usually strong in the AM hours, fishing a Blood Midge with a Black Midge Pupa dropper is deadly. For those who want to cast and retrieve flies, Leeches and Bugger style flies work great. Clouser Minnows are a fantastic fly on Iron Canyon, fished on a RIO Deep 7 sinking line, plan on finding the aggressive fish that hang in the depths! Use an intermediate sinking line along the shallower edges of the lake when fishing streamers. Fishing a #16 BH PT Nymph on the end of a tapered leader attached to a floating line is an all time best way to find fish here or any still water. Once flies are cast, use a very slow retrieve, just move the line enough to stay tight to the fly and feel the thuds of the take!

Current Reservoir Conditions: Springtime can produce tough fishing on Keswick! Fishing has been rough this week due to fluctuating releases from Shasta Dam (feeds directly into Keswick). Expect better fishing by June.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Suspending Bird's Nests, midge patterns and Pseudo Mays under indicators will work well. For the springtime caddis, try a #14-16 Amber Wing Prince or Sylvie's Pupa in black. Suspended your nymphs under an indicator. Use BB shot to sink your nymphs when fishing the edges of the swirly water found in the upper reservoir. Look for the fish in the slower swirls along the edges above Crystal Creek. The key is moving up into the moving water section of Keswick. Fishing the eddies next to the banks, between boulders, where it's shallow can be productive. Stay low Fishing a Deep-7 on a 7-weight fly rod, stripping buggers has been productive..

A motorized boat is a must for gaining access to the part of this reservoir that holds concentrated numbers of rainbow trout. Motor up towards Shasta Dam, look for slow water and big eddies near boulders. Swing, suspend, strip nymphs, leeches. Dry fly fishing happens late in the summer, near sunset. There are big brown trout here....waiting.

Reservoir Fact: Iron Mountain Mine is located just to the west of Keswick Reservoir. The site was mined for copper, zinc, iron, silver, gold, pyrite from the 1860s to 1963. Today, the mine is a source of extremely acidic drainage that runs into several creeks, all

Current Lake Conditions: Sunny skies and perfect daytime temperatures this week have coincided with fair to good reports. The Callibaetis are coming off and some anglers are experiencing pretty decent dry fly fishing. Stripping #16 Black A.P.s or #14 Pheasant Tail Nymphs will trick'em too!

Lake McCumber is surrounded with tall conifers, enveloped in clean crisp air and watched over by soaring eagles with sharp talons. A medium sized impoundment, the lake is considered "just right" for tubers, prams and Goldilocks.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Fish the deep water! Finding the right water temperature is easy with a thermometer! Suspend your thermometer with an old fly line. Check depths from 5 ft to 20 ft. Avoid fishing depths colder than 55°. Stripping a #14 Pheasant Tail Nymph on a floating line connected to a 9' 5X tapered leader in the mornings has been working great! A variation of this technique calls for a Damsel fly nymph, like one of Zack's leech patterns found in the Streamers/Leeches section on the right.

Using a float tube or a pontoon boat, paddle out into the lake and look along the edges for cruising rainbows and browns. RIOs Aqualux Intermediate Sink Tip is a perfect line for retrieving and stripping leeches, damsel nymphs and streamers. Use a floating line and leader tapered to 4x with a bead head PT with a very, very, very slow retrieve. Fish will find your nymph and take it, but don't set the hook! Just lift and let line out until you can bend the rod without first breaking the fish off.

Current Lake Conditions: Fishing great! We have been getting them on #20 midges and a leech patterns. Some rainbows over 20". Very fun!

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: A productive technique is suspending #22 red zebra midges or Gidgets under a treated piece of poly yarn. A single BB shot will get the flies down deep. About 7-8 feet. When using indicators, the takes can be difficult to see and detect. Successful indicator anglers keep the flies in the water, sometimes letting the drift extend all the way to the backing, then low and slow retrieve. Sink tip fly lines allow anglers to retrieve leeches, buggers and small nymphs fast or slow. This lake is best fished from a motorized boat, pram or pontoon boat. Float tubes are fine if you are okay with walking back up to the parking lot after the slow current of Lewiston pushes you south of the boat ramp.

Lake Fact: Created by Lewiston Dam, Lewiston Lake is used as a diversion storage area, connected to the Lower Sacramento river via underground tunnels. Lewiston's water is used for hydro electric generation and flood control.

Current Lake Conditions: We are in the middle of the best time to fish Manzanita. Water temps are warming up and the rainbows and browns are definitely more aggressive this week. The Callibaetis have not started to come off yet. So, expect to fish small Midge or Frostbite patterns for the very best results!

Pay attention to the special regulations here, especially where you can and can't fish. Barbless hooks, artificial lures, catch and release. Make sure you inquire at the park entrance.

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The Fly Shop's® Tips: Try a #14 non-beaded Pheasant Tail Nymph slowly retrieved on a floating line, or RIO's Aqualux Intermediate Sink Line.

Taper your leaders to 5x or 6x. Using a float tube or a pontoon boat, paddle out into the lake and look along the edges for cruising rainbows and browns. RIOs Aqualux Intermediate Sink Tip is a perfect line for retrieving and stripping Pheasant tail nymphs and Callibeeotis. Use a floating line and leader tapered to 6x with a bead head PT with a very, very, very slow retrieve. Fish will find your nymph and take it, but don't set the hook! Just lift and let line out until you can bend the rod without first breaking the fish off. Use a thermometer to find that 55-65°.

Current Conditions: No news here other than the fishing is great and is going to be great! So many fish and so little time. That pretty much sums up fly fishing at Antelope Creek Lodge. The time flies (no pun intended) as you enjoy fooling big 20" and better rainbows on streamers, beetles, hoppers, Royal Trude... so many flies, so many fish. It's gonna be a fun season this year! Conditions are excellent, fishing great!!

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The two lakes are full of 20" rainbow trout. The dry fly fishing might be tough early in the season, but the streamer and nymph fishing is always productive.

The creek is always a "sleeper" in the spring. Sometimes, all the rainbows are off spawning and the brown trout are found nearby, eating eggs. Also, spring run-off can make the the creek fishing tough on Antelope Creek. We can always expect the better fishing reports on the creek by mid June. Since this has been a dry winter and spring, it's possible the creek fishing could be epic by the middle of May.

Figure out how to get here, and you will have no shortage of great fishing!

At 5,000 ft. elevation, the waters here normally stay cold year 'round! The stream sits 20 ft.. from the lodge, and almost every bend has rainbow or brown trout lurking in the undercut banks! And the two scenic lakes on the ranch are full of trophy rainbow and brown trout. Two lakes and around a mile of stream provide anglers with wade fishing, bank fishing or float tubing. Opportunities for small trout and large trout, rainbows or browns on dries, nymphs, or streamers!! What more could you want? How about a comfortable lodge with a wet bar, huge fireplace, Direct TV, and gourmet food? No problem, it's all here!

Current Lake Conditions: BAILEY IS FISHING GREAT! Fishing great this week folks! Good trout fishing on the lower lake and good bass fishing on the upper lake. Fishing is on! Rainbows big and bigger! You can spot rising rainbows in the AM hours. In the afternoon, fish leeches and buggers on a sinking line. You will want to have various callibaetis patterns, a beetle or two and a couple streamers or leeches. Bass fishing on the upper lake is at it's best right now. It's top water action for bass in the early to mid day hours.

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Current Creek Conditions: The creek is in great shape! Golden stones are almost ready to hatch! We are seeing a few Green Drakes and Salmon flies. More on the way through May.

Bailey Creek Lodge is the perfect angling vacation spot for families, couples and small groups. The upstairs spacious lodge room has a warm, welcome feeling, enhanced by the open fireplace. It is the perfect spot to end each day and share stories over a glass of wine and fine food. This great room is topped off with a deck that looks down onto the creek. Each of the four downstairs bedrooms has a private bath, and they are all in close proximity to the pool area and Jacuzzi, both of which sit right by a huge lawn area and look down over the creek. This wonderful ranch is just the spot to enjoy easy access fishing for some remarkable trout, with great amenities for after fishing relaxing. Only 45 minutes from Redding, Bailey Creek Lodge is the perfect get-away for the family or a small group of anglers.

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Bring a couple Salmon Fly and Golden Stone adult dries for the evening session. Basic Elk Hair Caddis and Parachute Adams fly patterns are currently tricking these fish into feeding off the surface on the creek. At times, the most productive technique on the creek is suspending a small Zebra Midge or a Hogan's S&M under a brushy dry like a Stimulator. Make sure you cover the water and move from spot to to spot.

For the lake; Bring a pontoon boat or float tube. Stripping stillwater nymphs using a slow retrieve works great as does suspending PT nymphs under an indicator. The upper lake Bass have a soft-spot for frog patterns and crystal buggers. Check out out your list of hot flies below.

Current River Conditions: This report remains in the great category! PMDs and Hydropsyche Caddis are coming off! Salmon Flies! Fish Stimulators early, then again near sunset. Dry dropper set-ups are working well! Great fishing happening on Battle Creek! I would recommend brining a few hopper patterns too. Yes!

It's rugged, but the fishing is worth the effort! Bring water to drink and portable shade. Did I say, fishing is good! Water level is high! You could wait until the end of the month for improved wading conditions. The rainbows are here and you will get into numbers of them. Definitely fun!!

Fishing Battle Creek is true wildness fishing just like you always wanted. Just like Grizzly Adams would have wanted. Go fish battle creek so you can explain away that beard you're going to grow afterwards. A wading staff is a good idea. Bring lots of water and a big hat. An umbrella to shade yourself from the sun when taking a break isn't a bad idea.

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This is a beautifully rugged stream! Expect to find patches of brush, blackberry bushes and steep inclines to scramble down or up between you and the river. A tight squeeze here and there should be expected, but a fair trade for the chance to cast a fly to wild rainbows that are known to clobber stone fly nymphs and big dry flies. Watch out for rattle snakes!!

The Fly Shop's® Tips: The pocket-water nymphing on this stream can be fantastic. It's definitely the most productive method here. Sometimes we'll carry a sink-tip line and swing streamers in the deeper slots and hook into some large meat-eating fish. An October Caddis Dry and dropper can be deadly at

Current Conditions: Water conditions are great! Dry fly fishing has been great! It's all rainbows and a few brown trout. Yes, there's Salmon Flies coming off and few few Goldens are starting to flutter off. Make sure you are on the water early and then again late in the afternoon. Seems like the bite dies off a little mid day. Perfect timing for lunch, a nap.

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The Bollibokka Fishing Club, established in 1904, sits on seven private miles of the majestic McCloud River and is available to Club Members. If you would like to learn how to become a member of Bollibokka click here. With limited private access and very little angling pressure the fishing is great!

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Best tactic is going deep with small dark #16-18 nymphs. Up top, try a Thing From Uranus (sorry, that's the name of the fly) while suspending Zack's TB Pseudo May underneath. Brushy dry flies like Elk Hair Caddis, Adams, Stimulators always produce at this time of year.

Besides a floating line, bring your sink tip fly line, either a type 4 or 6 DC line for stripping and swinging buggers, sculpins and leeches for the big browns that swim here. Indicator nymphing will be the most productive method through this summer. Drop your leader from your indicator about 5 ft. or more to the split shot. Use an SSG sized shot. Suspend two flies below the shot, the bigger of the two flies above the smaller. Use a "high-stick" or "short-line presentation".

River Fact: Green's Creek Fish Hatchery, a federally run trout hatchery was once located only a few miles downstream of the existing Bollibokka Club House. Around 1872, this hatchery shipped the eggs of McCloud rainbows all over the United States and to many foreign countries including New Zealand and Argentina where McCloud rainbows (Salmo Shasta) roam the streams of those far away waters to this day.

Current River Conditions: Fishing going great at Clear Creek! Water conditions are ideal. Insect hatches are comprised of Golden Stones, Salmon Flies, Caddis and Baetis. Midges too! Expect to catch rainbows on dry flies like Parachute Adams, Stimulators. #18 Red Copper John too! You can work the deeper waters with a Woolly Bugger if you want. All good!

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In the center of the ranch, less than an hour from The Fly Shop®, there are 3 cabins for guest use. They're isolated from one another and when you rent one of the cabins it comes with the exclusive use of two miles of the stream. Read more here..

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Bring a fly box containing beetles and ants. Crystal Buggers are always a solid choice! Fish along the ferns and Indian rhubarb (those elephant ears looking plants). Fish a stimulator suspending a Zack's Pseudo May in #16 or #18. Suspending small #18-20 nymphs like WD-40s should work great!

For fly rods, an 8' 4wt. is perfect, (really liked the Hardy Zenith 804-4) but your 9' 5wt. will be good too. There isn't any need for any special lines other than a floating line. 7.5' leaders tapered to 4x are ideal. Bring 5x-6x tippet.

Current Lake Conditions: Update! The lake is loaded with fish! And, of course the fishing is great! Big rainbows 20"-25" is common. You can get them on Crystal Buggers, Leeches.

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Current Creek Conditions: Update! Just had a great report come across the desk yesterday, so here's the scoop: Crystal Buggers are working in the creek! Additionally, a #12-14 Parachute Adams suspending a #18 Red Copper John will bring the fly rod "tight". Okay? Good fishing happening at one of our premiere fly fishing properties.

With two idyllic cabins right on the banks of upper Hat Creek, private access to your own stretch of the creek as well as three trout-filled ponds, all within minutes of Burney and all of the great public accesses nearby, you're bound to fall in love with the Hermsmeyer Hat Creek Ranch!

The Fly Shop's® Tips: On the creek; The bigger fish in the creek are holding under the structure, riffles, and undercut banks. Look in the shadows along the edges of the creek. Drifting and swinging dark buggers will bring them out. Sometimes ants or beetles will work too. Use stealth when approaching these fish. Sometimes it's best to spot them and come back later, at sundown or early AM to get the job done.

Look for daily hatches of PMDs, PEDs and caddis. Simulators in #12-14 are a good fly for suspending #20 midges on 6x.

Cast your dry flies on 7.5 leaders tapered to 5x, or even 6x. Extend your leaders to 6x using fluorocarbon tippet when throwing flies smaller than #14. Bigger stone fly patterns can be best presented using a tippets between 3X-4X. Extend the leaders by about 18".

Current Lake Conditions: No news is good news this week! Fishing great! Callibaetis, Callibaetis and more Callibaetis. Rainbows cruising the shallows, eating off the surface as you ready your float tube, nervously rigging your fly rod in sweet anticipation. Every second is an eternity. Lake Christine is fishing well! Catching fish! Catching them on top, under the water. We are catching them! Callibaetis, callibaetis, callibaetis. You should fish callibaetis nymphs and dries. With a fly rod and a float tube!

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The lake offers 6 acres of solitude, large, photographic rainbow trout and some brown trout, all nestled in the mountains near Lassen National Park. Perfect for small groups. We offer Lake Christine as a stay-and-play-for-the-day destination. If you decide to stay overnight, a cabin can be rented, located only minutes away.

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Some of the best producing patterns include #14 prince nymphs, #14 black A. P.s and leeches. Suspending your nymphs under an indicator has been working best. Leeches are typically stripped, but who's in charge? It is especially important to have a float tube or pram to access the lake. You might like to know this lake is known for it's wondrous dry fly fishing!. Casting to cruising, rising rainbow trout happens everyday. When fishing midges suspended under an indicator, the depth should be no more than 4 feet to the split shot. Use a BB split shot about 16-20" from the fly.

Current Lake Conditions: It's slow. Keep driving north. Stop at the Lower Sacramento! The fishing has been very very good here.

Contact us about Luk Lake or call 800-669-3474.

Luk Lake is a 65+ acre lake conveniently located just minutes off Interstate 5 in Corning. Its location in the Central Valley makes it an outstanding winter stillwater destination, full of trophy rainbow trout. It makes for a great destination, complete with a cozy cabin that can accommodate up to 12 guests. It's easy access also makes for a great place to pop in a fish for a partial day when heading up to the Lower Sac, Trinity, or Klamath (or a way to catch a few fish after a tough steelhead trip!).

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Fish to rising rainbows and bass along the edges of the lake during AM hours. In the afternoon, the best tactics are fishing deeper with sinking lines and leeches or buggers. Nymphs suspended under indicators produce many hook-ups. There are boats available for angler to use so access to the middle of the lake is possible. Look for rising rainbows on transitional edges from shallow to deep. One of the best dry flies is the plain old Parachute Adams in #14-18.

Current Lake Conditions: Fishing great! Expect the best dry fly fishing mid day as the Callibaetis come off! Yes! You can be very successful retrieving Pheasant Tail Nymphs or Black A.P.s. Best fished out of a float tube! The waters of Rock Creek are dark and cold. The big rainbows that are known to roam these waters are eating pheasant tails retrieved on floating lines and 10' leaders tapered to 5x. Look for Callibaetis to be the bug of choice driving the surface feeding. Go!

Contact us about Rock Creek Lake! Or call 800-669-3474.

In the same neighborhood as Lake Christine and Bailey Creek, Rock Creek Lake will deliver excellent fishing on par if not better than the neighbors. So far this season, rock Creek has not disappointed anyone. The fishing rocks at Rock Creek!

This is our most popular private water destination, with limited availability through out the season. There is a cabin here where anglers can put your feet up and dry the waders off after a fun day of tubing the lake or fishing from a pram or pontoon boat. The setting is classic mountain fly fishing! Perfect for a fly fishing family get-a-way.

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Right now, it's fishing Callibaetis patterns that get the fish to eat! Fish Callibaetis nymphs either stripped on the end of a tapered leader and floating line, or go deep with an intermediate sinking line and a leech pattern. Sinking lines as well as floating lines useful here, as the fish will suspend at varying levels depending on water temperatures and available food sources. There are some really huge trout here! A few recent sightings by clients and staff have confirmed the existence of rainbows over 12 pounds! Suspending midges under small 1/2" indicators works really well!Bring a few

Current Lake Conditions: Still fishing in the AM hours. Bass will eat frog patterns and poppers along the edges of the lake during morning hours, then mid day they swim to the deeper waters, middle lake or hide in the weeds, out of the sun. If the afternoon bite is slow, you can just hop over to the Lower Sacramento and experience great trout fishing!

Contact us about Steiner Lake or call 800-669-3474.

The Fly Shop's® Tips: Located along the edges of Steiner Lake are casting platforms or docks that stretch out away from the bank allowing easier casting toward the middle of the lake or back along the banks were you can retrieve or strip frog patterns, leeches, woolly buggers and mouse patterns! A 6 or 7wt rod, 7.5 2X-3X tapered leader and tippet is the basic top water set up. A Type-3 sink tip fly line will get your flies down fast, so you can start stripping as soon as that bugger hits the water!