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steelies on the feather
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drifted the feather down to palms today with my friend ryan...got in the water around 7:30...on ryans first drift he wacked an adult steelhead..while he was busy bossing his trophy around I punched out my first cast and wack! 8" steelhead...Safe to say his was way bigger...we had a few spectato...
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Silver Fork American
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Hit the Silver Fork yesterday for some quality small stream action.? I had a blast!? I caught a ton of fish and despite the small size (8" average) they were exceptionally beautiful? The rainbows there have an irridescent purple sheen on the sides instead of the usual silver/pink coloration.?...
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ChucktheDuck
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deschutes,below maupin
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Just returned from my second annual october fishing trip on the deschutes river. This year we saw a lot of steelhead. I think together we hooked 15 in three days. Trout and mountian white fish always are plentiful, but the steelhead are great. We float the river between beavertail and macks canyon, wi...
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sac steelie's
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? Drug seven of my buddy's up to redding this weekend to get in on some of the egg bite action...I fished friday from posse grounds down to sac rv..Got rained on for half the day..First run of salmon is small this year...A lot of the trout have not moved up on the reds yet..their still hanging back in the dee...
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Upper Sac 10/12-14
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I missed my weekly Friday morning at Putah to get an early start toward Dunsmuir.? We hit some rain south of Redding and it continued until around noon, when it fortunately stopped for the rest of the weekend.? My friend and I hit our favorite spot on the Upper Sac for the afternoon and evening and had exc...
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FEATHER, YUBA, SOUTH FORK AMERICAN
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myself captain and lilwhippersnapper are looking to all go fishing on friday, me and shaun are tryin to figure out where we are gonna go. does anyone know how the current rivers are fishing for trout either bows or browns and also steelies where applicable the feather river low flow the yuba 3-10 mile o...
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Bonefish on Oahu
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Just got back from a week on Oahu. Before I left I debated whether or not to attempt some salt water fishing....thought maybe I might be pushing it a little...but then figured I was going to be surrounded by salt water and you only live once, so decided to check out some bone fishing.
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flygirl1
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Lower Sac
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Fished the lower Sac yesterday on a nice float with a guide in training. He was great and the fishing was too. Hooked around 15 and landed 11 or 12...beautiful rainbows all 14 to 17 inches, one 17 inch steelhead and a real nice small mouth bass on one of the little creeks that feed into the river. Fox pupa, s...
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flygirl1
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Mokulumne River
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Does anybody ever fish the mokulumne. Is it any good?
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Upper Sac & McCloud Issue
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http://www.ncffb.org/joomla_1.0.12/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=0&func=view&catid=9&id=&id=1852&catid=9
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upper sac
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This weekend is my annual three day float trip on the deschutes, and we are saving a day to fish the upper sac on the return trip. I thought about fishing around pollard flats, but I have never fished on the sac, lower or upper. Can anyone help directe me in a direction that would allow two people to fish for...
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bkerbs
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truckee river 9/28-30
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I fished the Truckee for three days over my birthday weekend.? It was an awesome time.? I caught a ton of fish although I didn't land any really big ones.? My best was about 16" rainbow that absolutely mauled a big #4 bunny leech as I stripped it behind a rock in about 10" of water.? That was fun!...
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upper sac. & McCloud report
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Just back from an awesome trip to the upper sac. and mccloud rivers. Got there last wendsday about 10 a.m started fishing about noon at the cantara loop access area and only caught 2 rainbows in about 3 hours of fishing, had a few other missed hits I think. Then it happened, I finnally fell in the river . No...
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Lagunitas Lake in Marin
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I might be up at Mt. Tam this weekend and was wondering if any of you guys have fished Lagunitas or the surrounding lakes recently. I know it's managed by the DFG as a wild trout fishery but reports I've read here and elsewhere seem to indicate that the quality of fishing doesn't really correlate with its...
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Burney Creek and Upper McCloud River
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I went camping this week with my wife.? We started out at Burmey Falls, and headed over to Fowler's Camp on the Upper McCloud River.? Tuesday morning I fished Burney Creek for a?couple of?hours and only managed to land two fish, both rainbows.? That evening I also fished the creek, landing seven, incl...
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High Sierra Trip
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Fished the high Sierras from Rock Creek to Walker this last week, on my way back to Davis this fall. Best way to go to school in my opinion. Weather was good at Rock Creek Lake until a week ago, then it went south quick, with lots of wind and a dusting of snow. At the lake we managed some browns (biggest was 17,...
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101fish
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East Walker and Hot Creek
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Fished the East Walker and Hot Creek with my Mom this weekend for the first time and was totally humbled. The East Walker flows out of the Bridgeport Reservoir. It reminded me a lot of Putah...only a little narrower in spots, shallower (flow was 66), with incredibly slippery rocks and lots of snags. To...
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flygirl1
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Truckee
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Just fished the Truckee for 3 days.?Best fishing was am hours.? Decent?hatches going off throughout the morning. Getting cold up there at night, feels good in the morning to fish in temps in the 30's.? Fished alot of water, fished alot of hours, caught alot of hard fight energetic wild trout.?landed...
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Weekend suggestions
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Hi all, I'm thinking about heading up above chico or thereabouts (pretty flexible) for some fishing.? I'll be heading up?with my wife and am looking for a fun place to wade with some beautiful scenery and hopefully a few trout.? Any suggestions? thanks, Vincent
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Lakes in Berkeley Area
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Anyone with fishing suggestions for Lakes... I am a graduate student and I got to be honest I cannot afford to drive to Putah... I read damn near 1000 pages a week... anyone have a suggestion for a lake I might be able to wet some line in?? I am going crazy
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Washington State Fishing
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So I recently went fishing in Washington state and thought I would share it with you all.? These photo's are from the Rocky Ford, a spring creek on the East side of the state.? I was able to fish for six days and got tons of fish, using big hopper patterns, scuds, and leeches.? If anyone find themselves in e...
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carson river
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just wondering if anyone has gone to the carson river lately, east carson where silver creek which is off wolf road meet, normally start at that lil bridge, and work down to the bridge on the east carson. so again any one been up there and how was the fishing. does anyone want to go, and fish it with some com...
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lower stan
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??? I had to coach a soccer game in turlock on sunday so I decided to bring my rod and fish for a few hours on the lower stan after the game.? I fished a couple of miles below the dam from 5:30 to dark.? Caught a bunch of wild bows between 8-12 inches.? Got them on either a 16 red copper john or my dropper #18Pt? mo...
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Sierras on Dries
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I decided to leave the nymphing to you guys today and headed up to the Sierras and my favorite stream.? It was a beautiful day and I never saw another fisherman.? I seemed to have trouble landing fish today for some reason.? I landed 20, but probably lost twice that.? Before you get too jealous, my larges...
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chemdoc
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Petaluma River...say what?
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-- Edited by SCM at 19:22, 2008-02-11
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Eve of Sept 1
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Got up to the creek about 5:30 and fished til dark. Pulled a few dinkers up on nymphs - but the usual spots weren't producing like normal - I think there must have been quite a few fisherman around early... Anyway, killer baetis hatch around 6:30 - 8:00 but no real top water action. Did manage to raise a few...
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Farm raised Trout?
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I am planning on fishing a lake that is stocked with monster trout. Everyone on the lake uses spin gear and power bait. Do farm raised?tout still eat flies? Should i use a Wooly Bugger? or bigger flies??
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bonefish1
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Mosquito lakes and pics.
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Planned on heading to lake alpine to float tube this past weekend for a few days but that lake is bigger then I remembered and the wind was howling, Had to change plans. Headed up hwy?4 a few more miles and stayed at a place called mosquito lakes, Its more like two large ponds, Its near ebbets pass at 8,000 f...
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Lake Alpine ?
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Anyone ever float tube lake alpine ? I'm heading up there this weekend for a few days, planned to fish the moklumne but it may be to low, also stresses the fish quit a bit to catch em in low warm water. Last report i heard was the moklumne is basically puddles now. So I figured that float tubing lake alpine ma...
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Stanislaus below Tulloch
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Fished the Stanislaus below Tulloch last weekend on the way back from racing the gang in the long barn area.? The flows are at a reasonable flow now.? The fishing was good.??The fish were slamming the olive poohpahs.? If you know this area you can hook several fish in the evening on various dry flies.? M...
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