Fishing Report

Lower Sacramento River 10/6/2022

Getting out early in the morning pays off with an average of 30 to 40 hookups or more a day. The flows from Keswick Dam are at 4150 cfs and staying consistent for weeks now, with some Salmon and Steelhead showing up they are holding in the deep runs/holes and riffles with the trout right behind them wanting their eggs.

We are hooking up under our custom made Invisible Strike Indicators. With dead drifting and swinging in the riffles and tail-outs it’s a very productive way of catching fish, especially when you run an egg pattern on top of your other flies as an attractor. The fish zero in on the egg, and either take the egg or one of the dropper flies to save the egg; it doesn’t matter if it is something as big as a leech down to the smallest fly. It works!

Flies Used:

#16, #18 Gold Bead & Non Beaded Black or Brown Expoxyback Pheasant Tail Nymph.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Bead & Non Beaded, Crackback-Green or Orange.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Bead Steelblue Caddis Nymph.

#18 Gold Bead Peaches & Cream.

#16, #18 Black or Brown Birds Nest w/Black Bead & Non Beaded.

#16, #18 Bubble Back Caddis

#16, #18, Gold Bead head CDC Dun.

#12, Black Bead head Epoxy Back Golden Stone.

#8, Brown & Black Rubber Legs.

#14 San Juan Worms Tan & Red.

#10, #8 Black Leechs.

#10, #8 White Streamers.

#10 #8 Muddler Minnow.

Eggs Used:

#10, Pettis Unreal Egg, Peach and Salmon Egg Colors.

#10, Glow Bugs, Peach and Salmon Egg Colors.

#10 TLC’s 4 color globug Salmon, Steelhead Orange, White and Flame.

Lower Sacramento River 7/20/2022

Getting out at day break pays off for beating the heat and catching more fish. We have been picking up fish from early morning-on.The flows from Keswick Dam are at 4120 cfs and staying consistent.This means more hook ups, with an average of 25 to 35 fish a day per boat.

Now that the days are hotter, the fish are holding in the deep runs/holes and riffles.

We are hooking up under our custom made Invisible Strike Indicators. With dead drifting and swinging in the riffles and tail-outs it’s a very productive way of catching fish!

Flies Used:

#16, #18 Gold Bead & Non Beaded Black or Brown Expoxyback Pheasant Tail Nymph.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Bead & Non Beaded, Crackback-Green or Orange.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Bead Steelblue Caddis Nymph.

#18 Gold Bead Peaches & Cream.

#16, #18 Black or Brown Birds Nest w/Black Bead & Non Beaded.

#16, #18 Bubble Back Caddis

#16, #18, Gold Bead head CDC Dun.

#12, Black Bead head Epoxy Back Golden Stone.

#8, Brown & Black Rubber Legs.

#14 San Juan Worms Tan & Red.

Eggs Used:

#10, Pettis Unreal Egg, Peach and Salmon Egg Colors.

#10, Glow Bugs, Peach and Salmon Egg Colors.

Lower Sacramento River 6/12/2022

We have been picking up fish from mid-morning-on. The flows from Keswick Dam are at 4080 cfs and staying consistent now. This means more hook ups, with an average of 25 to 30 fish a day. Now that the days are hotter, the fish are holding in the deep runs/holes and riffles. We are hooking up under our custom-made Invisible Strike Indicators. With dead drifting and swinging in the riffles and tail-outs it’s a really productive way of hooking fish!

Flies Used:

#16, #18 Gold Beaded Black or Brown Expoxyback Pheasant Tail Nymph.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Beaded & Nonbeaded, Crackback-Green or Orange.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Beaded Steelblue Caddis Nymph.

#18 Gold Beaded Peaches & Cream.

#16, #18 Black or Brown Birds Nest w/Black Bead & Non beaded.

#16, #18 Bubble Back Caddis

#16, #18, Beaded head CDC Dun.

#12, Black Beaded head Golden Stone.

#8, Brown Rubber Legs.

Eggs Used:

#10, Pettis Unreal Egg, Peach, and Salmon Egg Colors.

#10, Glow Bugs, Peach, and Salmon Egg Colors.

Lower Sacramento River 5/26/2022

The past few weeks have been great picking up fish from sun up to sun down. Now that the flows being released from Keswick Dam are around 3800 cfs, from 3200 cfs, the dynamics of the river has changed a bit. The fish are now in transition to new holding spots/places, with flows being consistent for a few days now the bite is picking back up from 10 to 20 fish a day, to 30 to 40 fish a day per boat, with an average of 18” to 23” and a few that were quite a bit more impressive.

Most of the fish are picked up in the riffles at the head of the runs and in the deeper tailouts, with a few in the seams. Now that we are moving into the hotter months, fish will be holding in the deep holes, runs and heavily oxygenated riffles. Along with the banks that are heavily shaded to escape the heat and the birds of prey.

Flies Used:

#16, #18 Gold Beaded Black or Brown Expoxyback Pheasant Tail Nymph.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Beaded & Nonbeaded, Crackback-Green or Orange.

#16, #18 TLC’s Gold Beaded Steelblue Caddis Nymph.

#18 Gold Beaded Peaches & Cream.

#16, #18 Black or Brown Birds Nest w/Black Bead & Non beaded.

#16, #18 Bubble Back Caddis.

Eggs Used

#10 Pettis Unreal Egg, Oregon Cheese, Peach, Salmon Egg, Cream Delite and light Roe Colors.