For those fishing the Russian...(more photos!)

I used to summer at Camp Royaneh, up on a creek off the Russian, I think it was called Cazadero Creek.

My older brothers would point out the big fish below the jumping boulder.  "Those are steelhead"

Anyone ever fish that creek, or remember that camp?


Allen

Allen, that's Austin Creek.  Closed to fishing I believe.  Too bad as we have a cabin on that creek.  Gonna have to have you and the family up there this summer.  It's just over the hill from Fort Ross.  We can sneak off for a morning of fishing ...

Or we can do it some time t his winter and do a steelhead drift on the Russian while we're up there.

-Allen

Cool.  Austin Creek, that's why it twanged my string when you mentioned it.

dude Im there, can't wait.  Good memories form long ago, and new ones to come.

thanks Allen

Allen

Mike, If you haven't seen this place before, maybe its time for a field trip when the fish come home.

Joe I think I know the spot when I was a teen and started fishing for Steelies there used to be a big party and guys would sit around there and drink eat and watch the fish jump the falls. Had a family friend who had a nice spread just before you get to Wallace Ck Rd he had cabins and the whole clan would vacation there, he was an avid trout fisherman and back in those days those creeks would open up on the first day of trout season we would drive his truck up and fish our way back to his property a steelie or 2 would get hooked 10/12 lb fish on a 4wt fly rod and the creek was so low they couldn't leave the pool that was exciting. Every year I couldn't wait for that truck ride when I was 13 we got in his truck but he headed down hill and I thought what the heck, we didn't turn around and we drove all day and half the night ending up at Railroad Ranch on Henry's Fork where we fished  Box Canyon and last Chance he was a regular there and knew everybody and I had the run of the place it was unbelievable. On the way out we stopped at Mesa Falls and he had to pick me up to get me back in the truck I could have stayed there forever.

Anytime Joe I would love to go it brings back great memories.

Good stuff Mike.

Allen & Allen - love Austin Creek!  An old friend has a family cabin that they have had for probably 50 years or so with a back door that opens onto the creek just downstream of the Cazadero. We've been going there in summer and winter for years. I just love that area - creek, nearby river and ocean. Let me know if you plan to go fishing and I would enjoy meeting up with you all.

Take care - John     

Allen:  "Cazadero Cr." is Austin Cr.

Wow, how cool....that was the 1st place I ever heard the word "steelhead."  I remember the day specificaly, mnainly because the fish were so HUGE.  I learned to catch trout on that creek as a real little kid.

My dad was the "waterfront man" for the Boy Scout camp every summer.  Canoes and swimming  lessons behind the gravel dam at Royeneh.  We lived in the family camp next to the creek downstream from the dam.

Got my 1st trout there, my 1st beesting there, and my 1st redwood splinter.  I remember the goldback ferns  we could imprint the fern pattern on our skin with the 'gold' dust on the back of the leaves.

It will be good thing to go back.

Allen

The gravel dams are all gone from Austin Creek.  Something about killing some native shrimp.  The girlfriend's family has had homes up there since her father was a kid.  They tell stories of the "pools" behind the dams holding some huge trout.  Now there are no pools except naturally occurring ones.  In fact behind the boy scout camp is a great one that we call Roman's Plunge.

-Allen

I think it was Royal Plunge wasn't it?  Where they did the Order of the Arrow Ceremony?

Allen

I think it was Royal Plunge wasn't it?  Where they did the Order of the Arrow Ceremony?

Allen

All the gfriend's brothers went to that camp too.  And they all call it Roman's Plunge.

-Allen

Very cool.  another thing we have in common now, besides our name, our avocation, and our good looks!

Allen