I spent the last week of 2010 fishing with my son Conner and my Dad. The weather has been downright frigid making the fishing conditions pretty tough. Wind, rain, snow and temperatures below 32, have the Klamath River running pretty cold, as in 40 degree cold. We did all our fishing between the hours of 11:30am and 4pm, while trying...
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There are some nice Christmas Steelies waiting to be caught. My client Bill landed a pair of nice Steelies in the 3 and 4 pound range while swinging a zonker fly today. The river is really cold so working the water as slow as possible is vital to getting bit. The river is seeing very little pressure and we only...
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The last few trips have been quite the mix of weather; of course it has all been on the cold side. It has definitely been Winter Steelhead on the Klamath River with temperatures ranging from 20 to 40 degrees as well as rain and 3 inches of snow mixed in. Despite the tough weather, my clients and friends and I managed to...
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Today was one of those days it would have been very easy to just stay home on the warm couch and enjoy pre-Turkey day, but it was a good thing we chose not to. Conner, Dad and I bundled up and got on the water at 1pm. We waited thinking it would warm up a bit this afternoon, wrong, it was still...
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You have to love when a teaching lesson is rewarded. My client Tom Stephenson (Costa Mesa and Hornbrook CA) hired me to teach him how to fish and row the Klamath River in his new Willie Drift boat, today. Tom is a fairly new resident of Hornbrook and has a great house right on the river, Tom also fished with me over 8...
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It was a frosty morning on the upper Klamath River yesterday. My clients Jeff Howard and Russ Hickley of the California Fly Fishers Association drifted and swung some frozen flies in the early part of the morning but by lunch time the sun was out for a while and warmed everything up. The guys landed some nice Steelhead before and after lunch,...
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