A guest of mine last week asked me a question. "What does fly fishing need to reach the next level, what’s missing?" My take - “I would say it’s more about what fly fishing doesn’t need. Fly fishing is just fine. I have no problems with it. It’s an amazing lifestyle with historic values, but there are a lot of...
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Valerie Aubrey from Eagle Lake Fishing checked in with some intel on how the last big El Nino looked in Susanville, CA. In a Facebook post Valerie said, "The last good El Niño 1993. This is the kind of flow we need to see the lake come back. 2016 hasn't cut the mustard yet. Wishing for the good old...
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Starting this week we will receive two trout plants weekly!! It could be a double trophy plant or it could be a Fish & Game plant combined with a net pen release. Either way that goes the action will be fantastic from here on out until the lake gets too warm to plant fish anymore. That usually occurs...
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Whenever the southern Oregon and northern California coast gets hammered by relentless storms and buckets of rain day after day, a person starts to wonder if it will ever end.  But as I sit here writing this column, I am looking at a trout schedule for Garrison Lake and remembering the fun I had on this particular waterbody last year,...
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