Definitely been shoulder season over the last few weeks. Started off snow and now it’s blazing hot. Both the McCloud and Upper Sac are running lower and here’s it’s still May. Best get your fishing jollies in sooner than later. Both rivers are showing strong hatches of Salmonflies and Golden Stones. From now till late June flinging big Chubbies and Stimmies is the theme. I suggest running a dropper off either of these, certainly a killa way to hook up. Fish the pockets and heavy oxygenated water during the day and then late evenings just before dark thirty the runs should light up. Not a bad idea either to get twitchy when running them on your drift, this gives them a little life and can make a big fish just say hell with it and smack your fly.

This week I took advantage of the famous Salmonfly hatch on the Rogue River and drifted from near the dam down to Shady Cove with my partner Capt. Buster. It didn’t disappoint, we had continuous action on top all day into the evening. Little fart knockers up to large fish were on my stim … now my poor arm is toast but the happy meter is maxed.. Suggest y’all think about putting this big river and the Salmonfly hatch on your bucket list.

See my last post for recommended bugs.

Cheers

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