{RPT} Sac River - Redding Area

Haven't been posting to much because I am busy fishing but with low flows in river and lack of rain fishing has been pretty good for trout, steelhead, salmon, smallmouth and various junk fish. Salmon return to the Coleman fish hatchery was terrible, but steelhead was the best it has been in 30-40 years. My longest salmon was 34", most the steelhead are in the 18-22" range, trout can be anywhere from 6" to 20" and I had a couple days where I couldn't catch anything other then 6" salmon smolt because there were so many of them for a few days.

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Nice variety of gamefish plus a few Squahfish

So cool never knowing what you are going to pull up. Just plugging?

Nice fish! Ty for report

Looks like you had an awesome day on the water. Nice looking fish.

Very nice bro...catching all those smolts is a good sign..there releasing those smolts where they should.

Nice. Thanks for the report.

Excellent pics & fish!!

That squaw is perfect bait size!

Very nice bro...catching all those smolts is a good sign..there releasing those smolts where they should.

For three or four days there were a ton of these, even saw a couple boils something chasing them, I understand last year because of heavy rain/flows at the hatchery and in Sac they dumped way down river or in the Delta somewhere. Be interesting to see how many of those fish find there way back north.

Very nice!! I'd love to have time to explore that area someday.

Add a catfish, you would have a grand slam.

Add a catfish, you would have a grand slam.

I caught all the fish on same 1/2 mile stretch of Sacramento River, I have caught catfish, bluegill (on a fly rod) and crappie also, the locals who have lived here a long time were skeptical about the crappie but I had taken a picture. After the heavy rains and flooding last year I am sure a few ponds and or creeks flooded and fish ended up everywhere.

It is really fun to fish this time of year, not a lot of guides on river, salmon season is closed, flows are down to 3400 cfs, rest the year or when heavy rain flows can be well above 10,000 cfs and muddy.