Shad At ‘The Minnow Hole’

It’s been a good thirty years since I took a dedicated American Shad fishing trip from a boat. Year after ...
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Big Trees Region Offers Big Trout Opportunities

The town of Arnold, California is nestled right next to Calaveras Big Trees, the State Park created in 1931 to ...
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Stripers, Trout, Rattlesnakes And A Helicopter Rescue!

When I made it back to the trucks my heart was racing like a freight train. This wasn’t from the ...
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Gearing Up For The Sierra Stream Trout Opener!

I started chasing stream trout in the ‘70’s. Back then the April Sierra stream trout opener was a big deal ...
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Feather River Striped Bass Action Sizzles

(Yuba City) The Feather River continues to produce great numbers of striped bass for anglers fishing an array of offerings ...
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Anglers Hammer Striped Bass

(Tisdale) “Striper fishing is wide-open on the Sacramento above and below Tisdale,” reported James Stone of Elite Sportsmen Guide Service ...
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Big Trout Reward Sac River Anglers

(Redding) The weather is great, the flows are stable and the trout bite on the upper reaches of the lower ...
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Shad Run Begins Early, Stripers Sizzle

(Rancho Cordova) Shad began showing in the Sacramento River at Freeport in mid-March this year, largely a result of the ...
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Anglers Battle Stripers In Lower River

(Yuba City) The spring run of stripers has arrived on the lower Feather River from Yuba City to Verona. Don’t ...
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Incredible Wild Rainbow Fishing On The Upper Reaches Of The Lower Sacramento

“Okay, cast up into that area of broken water,” instructed Kirk Portocarrero, and I fired my bead and slinky rig ...
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Russian River Steelhead Run Rebounds This Year  

The Russian River in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties is one of the most legendary fishing streams in California. For over ...
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When Disaster Strikes

(Orangevale) At first glance the American River appears to most as a slow, lazy river that winds through the heart of ...
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