From Colorado, and am planning a trip to the bay area in a few months, would like to take a day to fish some local waters, any suggestions on where to go? never been to the area before....
-- Edited by ColoradoAngler on Friday 17th of April 2009 12:42:57 PM
Pretty much all of the decent waters will require a 2-3 hour drive from the Bay Area, especially the "name" waters. A few to look at: Truckee, Little Truckee, North Fork Yuba River, Lower Yuba River, Lower Sacramento River, Stanialaus River, Caron River forks
give us some more info , so we can help narrow done your search.way to many good waters in nor cal....
What do you like or want to try.Small mountain streams,big rivers, rainbows , browns,on foot, out of a drift boat with a guide,do you want to camp.....
Trip got delayed til the fall, but will still be looking to get out there. Looking for good public wade access areas. Would love to try to get a few of those pretty native goldens I've seen photos of, rainbows, browns, cutts, whatever. I'd like to find a relatively unpressured area, but I realize that might be tough, and looking for short day trips, if possible. Thanks for the input.
Hard to beat the upper sac. in the fall. Goldens may be a little tough to get to for a day trip. The rock creek drainage has them and is probably the "easiest" place to get to them that I know of But that is about a 6 hour drive from bay area, The trailhead starts at a whopping 10,000 feet so a day of acclimating would be recomended in my opinion. I beleive you do not have goldens in Colorado due to the fact the rocky mountain waters are to alkaline and they never took hold there. They did in Wyoming but the water is different there from what I have read. Most of our rivers have unpressured areas because people are lazy and aren't willing to walk a few miles from easy access area's.
If your making a fall trip I would give the lower sac a hard look...Not the best river to wade, but wicked good out of a drift boat...Oct is the hot month to fish it...A lot of good guides to choose from if you want to go that route...also the Feather, American and Trinity rivers for steelhead.You could wade those river..Yuba for trout and mabe if your super duper lucky a random steelhead... a lot of lakes and smaller mt streams higher up in the elevation, but access, snow and regs might limit you ....
