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It is that time of summer where people take breaks for
vacations, family trips, and such, maybe putting the fly rods away in exchange
for family size tents, ski boats, and amusement parks. Many are wrapping up
their celebration of the independence of our nation from the crooks the British
by drinking, eating meat, and blowing up fireworks, but the fishing goes on…
Lower Sacramento River Trout – I have not been on the Lower
Sac sense my last stint during the cold rainy to apocalyptic heat of a few
weeks ago. Flows remain around 15000cfs out of Keswick and high down through
the river. Talking to a few of my buddies that have been out there fishing
remains good in the lower stretches and July is one of my favorite months to
fish down from Balls Ferry to Red Bluff.
Lower Sacramento Stripers – IT is striper time in our neck
of the woods. The heat wave seemed to put the bite off a bit and focus the fish
on eating during the morning and evening but with more normal summer weather
forecasted for the next week fishing should stabilize a bit. We have had a few
good fish and a few good numbers days. Nothing earth shattering in size has
been caught yet but I’ll take good numbers and schoolies any day.
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| Nice Striper |
Lower Yuba River – I have not been out here in a week or so
either. Flows have come up to around 1600cfs, which is a great flow! Hoppers
should be moving around if they didn’t get cooked during the last heat wave,
and with more normal summer temps forecasted over the next week the hoppers and
caddis should get a bit more active. Not a bad place to go spend an evening
this time of year.
Clearwater Lodge – I have spent most of my time up at the
lodge lately and Michelle Titus the new owner has the place humming. It is
great to see such a loving, hospitable, and dedicated person purchase and take
over the lodge. Good to see Clearwater back to what it can be.
Fall River – The hex hatch has been
great one night poor the next. Mainly depending on the wind. If the wind comes
up in the evening the hatch is no good. I had clients out fishing it a few
nights and each night we hooked good sized fish, one taking us into the backing
a few times. We were averaging about 3 fish to the boat each night and many
more blow ups and misses. The PMD hatch has been good during the day with windows
to throw dries to rising fish and on most days good nymph bites.
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| New Fox's Mother Superior ... Far Superior |
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| no better setting |
Baum Lake – This is a great place
to take beginner or advanced anglers as you can target the schools of truck
trout or hunt out the bigger native fish. I had some experienced clients this
last week hook into some of the bigger native fish and get schooled on 6x and
midges and then I took my two boys out and they beat up on the truck trout…a
bit of everything for all ages and skill levels.
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| Oliver Getting it done...all on his own I might add |
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| Beckett getting it done...with some help |
Booze News – I have been sticking with pretty standard stuff
for the last week the highlight of the last few weeks was when I came home and
my sister in law who works at Sierra Nevada had left me a bottle of the ne
Ovila Belgian Style Golden Beer from Sierra Nevada. I have yet to try it but I
have heard from various beer sources aka my brother in law that it is amazing…I
am saving it for the first 20lb striper of the year.
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| just waiting for a 20lber...or the end of the season |
Garden News – I am totally addicted to growing my own
vegitables. My tomatoes, potatos, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers are tearing it up
this year. A little bummed on my bell pepers and jalapenos as they are not
getting it done like they usually do. My boys have been eating cherry tomatoes,
cucumber slices, and home made salsa for pretty much every meal.
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| The Brown family will survive the apocalypse on fish and salsa and a side of cucumbers and lemon pepper |
Sports News other wise known as the reason I drink – The
giants are killing me. I haven’t made it passed the 5th inning for a
few weeks as I can’t stand to watch such atrocious situational hitting and no
good news on the horizon. Angel on the 60 day disabled list is not good news. I
don’t think I realized how much of
a leader and emotional force
Angle was on the team. The pitching staff is excruitiating to watch as
well. Kickham has been toughest to
watch…our big young lefty hanging sliders and off speed pitches that literally
get destroyed. Kid needs to learn to barry those balls in the dirt. Watching
Cain get crushed and knocked out after 2.1 innings last night agains the
dodgers was rough…Gonna be a long July I think.
Cast Hope - Pledge Drive is wrapping up but we still have a few of these really cool custom Galvan Reels...
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| Custom Bling |
New Tunes - We were Promised Jet Packs...just bought a few of these guys CD's...Love them so far. Great Swedish Indie Rock...little moody, little rock, little math rock, just enough catchy.