Hello all music and river lovers! My good friends Rob and Regina at Mountain Sage Nursery in Groveland, California are hosting a benefit concert this Friday May 15th @ 5:00 pm. The benefit is for the Tuolumne River Trust and is the beginning of their Paddle to the Sea event I posted on May 8th. [...]
I met this guy flyfishing on the lower Stan. He was in the flat section below the dam and didn’t have too much luck. He said he used to catch numerous fish here for many years and there was always a caddis hatch going on. Made me wonder how much pressure this section of water [...]
First of all I just want to confess that I have not always been a catch and release fisherman and occasionally under the right circumstances I will keep a couple trout for dinner. Those are never ever in waters that prohibit keeping any fish. Even in some of the rivers I fish that allow you [...]
Goodwin Dam started flowing over the top again this week. Another sign of Spring. The flows had been coming around the far left side. When I went down to take a closer look I was reminded of how slippery and dangerous this spot is. I removed some garbage when I descended the steep embankment and could [...]
Today on the lower Stanislaus I caught about 8 nice trout and released them all safely. The regs call for barbless hooks, no bait! (I saw your worm container by the flat water!) and zero bag. That means catch the trout and let them go so we can preserve this nice stretch of water for [...]