Glad someone out there representing what northern California is about. Anyone not from California thinks it's all about crowded beaches, palm trees,snobby celebrities,hippies and high cost of living. While those things do exist in the state especially socal,people don't realize or forget that there's alot more to california than LA and the kardashians. Up north most of are just everyday respectable people who love to hunt and fish,bbq and drink beer, and love the simple things in life. We have beautiful remote mountains and wilderness with clear cold trout streams,alpine lakes with brookies, salmon,steelhead and stripers. If the politics and cost of living wasn't such a mess I would move back in a heartbeat. Everybody be moving to texas but the prettiest thing in texas is the hill country and even that don't come close to what any of the western states has to offer.
Nor cal was a blast and definitely slept on. Previously I had only fished the Owens valley. Can’t wait to get back and experience more of NorCals rivers.
@@AboutTrout glad you enjoyed it up there! There are countless trout streams in the sierras, cascades, siskiyous and coastal ranges. Some are more productive than others. In some streams like the yuba the fish are usually pretty small while in others(which I won't mention the names of on youtube)have wild trout up to 6 or 7 pounds. And of course there's plenty of stocked trout options as well. There's also plenty of bass. As for salmon which is California's most prized fish, fishing for those can be tricky depending on the year and I have much concern for their future but if you do hook a 15-20lb salmon there's nothing like it and the fresh ones are restaurant quality! A hatchery steelhead also makes a great fish for the grill
Loved this one ! Fished a lot in Nor Cal just need to get over to the Trinity. Lower Sac is world class and always pumps out some pigs. Glad you stuck some Steelies 👍🏼👍🏼. Luke seems like a good dude, thanks for his info !
Hey James, I had to laugh as I've been in your boat and been barked at a few times. But it's a positive bark. All in the process of learning. Had a great trip and hope to be back early next year. Thanks again
had to chuckle a bit when Luke was saying that even in Summer when the temperatures are in the 90's the water temperature in the Lower Sac is 56°. That is very true it is. Lake Shasta is fed by the Upper Sacramento River (another 40-miles of river above the Dam), the McCloud River, and the Pit River. Those three rivers drains a huge amount of Northern California and all the water they release comes from that bottom of the dam, so it's always cold water. The reason the dam is there is to gather it up and send it downstream for irrigation of the San Joaquin valley and down into Los Angeles through the canal system. In order to do that, during the summer, the Lower Sac no longer runs at 3,000 to 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) but rather in excess of 40,000 cfs. It's extremely difficult to fish the lower Sac from a boat above about 8,500 cfs. You actually have wading access in a number of spots along the Lower Sac when flows are below 4,000 cfs and it fishes well during the winter through early spring when they are not feeding irrigation systems in the San Joaquin. There's a tremendous caddis hatch there in March. But by August, you could almost navigate an aircraft carrier down the Lower Sac. So, yeah, the water is an optimum temperature, but you can't really get to the fish in July, and August, or as long as they are releasing those massive quantities of water out the bottom of the dam. Even at lower flows like you see here, fishing from a boat is by far and away the most effective way to fish it. Besides Steelhead, it also has a good population of native rainbows that don't go out to sea to become steelhead and it gets a good run of King Salmon too. The Upper Sac (above the dam), has another 40-miles of great trout water. About the only place you won't find good populations of native trout above the dam is in the area right around the town of Dunsmuir, which is the next real town above Redding. They plant fish there and fishing is only OK in that area when they plant. Everything else is native fish with artificials only and catch and release fishing throughout. So from the Scarlett Way Bridge on the north of town and on upriver, fishing for native trout is good. From a few miles south of town down to Lake Shasta, native trout abound. They don't however have either Salmon or Steelhead runs up there because of Lake Shasta Dam. There is no fish ladder and when they finished building the dam in 1945 that cut off all of the Steelhead and Salmon access for the upper 40 miles of the Sac. Nonetheless, the water is much smaller; trout fishing is primarily wade fishing; and there are good populations of trout along almost all of that upper 40-miles of the Sacramento River. It's not however, as easy as fishing out of a boat like you do in this video.
Hey James, Glad to see you out on my local water. As a fellow euro dorker nice to see you getting some steelies on your euro rig. Probably will hit the Trinity in the next week or so. I guess the rain we just had moved a bunch more in.
It was awesome. We made sure to beef up the tippet. We got both those fish in pretty quickly. Can’t wait to make it back out there. Thanks for checking out the video.
@@AboutTrout James, can you share your leader/tippet rigging for euro dork'ing up some chrome? i assume you're using thicker leader/sighter in addition to tippet, yeah?
@@patches152absolutely, We ran 02x bicolor to 1x flouro. Depth to a jig October caddis 4.6mm bead and 24” to point, unweighted egg. The first fish ate the caddis the others were on the egg.
Hey James, Great video and so good to see you as a student. Especially after being your's on the Juan. Thanks again for the good time and anyone wanting to catch some fish on the San Juan? James is your guide... Stay safe out there and I'll look for ya on the water.
As someone who fishes the Trinity River for a living I’m sorry to say but you missed the peak you got to come back in January and February that’s when we get the really big steelhead
30ft if straight 1x bicolor to a tippet ring. Depth to dropper (caddis), 2ft to the egg we had on the point. Egg was unweighted the caddis had a 4.6mm bead. I fished my buddy Luke’s reddington strike with a tilt reel.
You looked like a cold winter's day and the other guy looked like a nice fall day. You must be skinny. Nice seeing a pretty Trinity river. The one here in DFW Texas is not
Glad someone out there representing what northern California is about. Anyone not from California thinks it's all about crowded beaches, palm trees,snobby celebrities,hippies and high cost of living. While those things do exist in the state especially socal,people don't realize or forget that there's alot more to california than LA and the kardashians. Up north most of are just everyday respectable people who love to hunt and fish,bbq and drink beer, and love the simple things in life. We have beautiful remote mountains and wilderness with clear cold trout streams,alpine lakes with brookies, salmon,steelhead and stripers. If the politics and cost of living wasn't such a mess I would move back in a heartbeat. Everybody be moving to texas but the prettiest thing in texas is the hill country and even that don't come close to what any of the western states has to offer.
Nor cal was a blast and definitely slept on. Previously I had only fished the Owens valley. Can’t wait to get back and experience more of NorCals rivers.
@@AboutTrout glad you enjoyed it up there! There are countless trout streams in the sierras, cascades, siskiyous and coastal ranges. Some are more productive than others. In some streams like the yuba the fish are usually pretty small while in others(which I won't mention the names of on youtube)have wild trout up to 6 or 7 pounds. And of course there's plenty of stocked trout options as well. There's also plenty of bass. As for salmon which is California's most prized fish, fishing for those can be tricky depending on the year and I have much concern for their future but if you do hook a 15-20lb salmon there's nothing like it and the fresh ones are restaurant quality! A hatchery steelhead also makes a great fish for the grill
Agreed. SoCal is a different state than Norcal. Hella!
Beautiful water and fish.
Nor Cal is slept on.
Why don’t you two come back and let’s catch more fish and make some bomb rap songs.
Great stuff, James.
Thank you!
Love the Trinity, glad to see you enjoying Northern California!!
Northern California was a truly amazing experience. I can’t wait to go back, I barely scratched the surface. Thanks for checking out the video!
Good stuff…thx!!!
Loved this one ! Fished a lot in Nor Cal just need to get over to the Trinity. Lower Sac is world class and always pumps out some pigs. Glad you stuck some Steelies 👍🏼👍🏼. Luke seems like a good dude, thanks for his info !
Blown away with the quality of the fisheries and caliber of all the guides I met up there.
Hey James, I had to laugh as I've been in your boat and been barked at a few times. But it's a positive bark. All in the process of learning. Had a great trip and hope to be back early next year. Thanks again
Can’t wait to get you back out here!
had to chuckle a bit when Luke was saying that even in Summer when the temperatures are in the 90's the water temperature in the Lower Sac is 56°. That is very true it is. Lake Shasta is fed by the Upper Sacramento River (another 40-miles of river above the Dam), the McCloud River, and the Pit River. Those three rivers drains a huge amount of Northern California and all the water they release comes from that bottom of the dam, so it's always cold water. The reason the dam is there is to gather it up and send it downstream for irrigation of the San Joaquin valley and down into Los Angeles through the canal system. In order to do that, during the summer, the Lower Sac no longer runs at 3,000 to 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) but rather in excess of 40,000 cfs. It's extremely difficult to fish the lower Sac from a boat above about 8,500 cfs.
You actually have wading access in a number of spots along the Lower Sac when flows are below 4,000 cfs and it fishes well during the winter through early spring when they are not feeding irrigation systems in the San Joaquin. There's a tremendous caddis hatch there in March. But by August, you could almost navigate an aircraft carrier down the Lower Sac. So, yeah, the water is an optimum temperature, but you can't really get to the fish in July, and August, or as long as they are releasing those massive quantities of water out the bottom of the dam. Even at lower flows like you see here, fishing from a boat is by far and away the most effective way to fish it. Besides Steelhead, it also has a good population of native rainbows that don't go out to sea to become steelhead and it gets a good run of King Salmon too.
The Upper Sac (above the dam), has another 40-miles of great trout water. About the only place you won't find good populations of native trout above the dam is in the area right around the town of Dunsmuir, which is the next real town above Redding. They plant fish there and fishing is only OK in that area when they plant. Everything else is native fish with artificials only and catch and release fishing throughout. So from the Scarlett Way Bridge on the north of town and on upriver, fishing for native trout is good. From a few miles south of town down to Lake Shasta, native trout abound. They don't however have either Salmon or Steelhead runs up there because of Lake Shasta Dam. There is no fish ladder and when they finished building the dam in 1945 that cut off all of the Steelhead and Salmon access for the upper 40 miles of the Sac. Nonetheless, the water is much smaller; trout fishing is primarily wade fishing; and there are good populations of trout along almost all of that upper 40-miles of the Sacramento River. It's not however, as easy as fishing out of a boat like you do in this video.
Thanks for sharing your feelings and your inner weaknesses and desires James! Looking forward to fishing. With you soon. Mon Ami
James, ugh... Another river for my bucket list.
So much water
So many trout
So little time
Be well 🐟🐟🐟
Appreciate it. I would definitely not miss an opportunity to fish Northern California. I was pretty blown away by the quality of fishing.
Hey James, Glad to see you out on my local water. As a fellow euro dorker nice to see you getting some steelies on your euro rig. Probably will hit the Trinity in the next week or so. I guess the rain we just had moved a bunch more in.
It was awesome. We made sure to beef up the tippet. We got both those fish in pretty quickly. Can’t wait to make it back out there. Thanks for checking out the video.
@@AboutTrout James, can you share your leader/tippet rigging for euro dork'ing up some chrome? i assume you're using thicker leader/sighter in addition to tippet, yeah?
@@patches152absolutely, We ran 02x bicolor to 1x flouro. Depth to a jig October caddis 4.6mm bead and 24” to point, unweighted egg. The first fish ate the caddis the others were on the egg.
@@AboutTrout i smell what you're cooking.
cheers
Looks like y'all had so much fun!
Twas a swell time
Hey James, Great video and so good to see you as a student. Especially after being your's on the Juan. Thanks again for the good time and anyone wanting to catch some fish on the San Juan? James is your guide... Stay safe out there and I'll look for ya on the water.
Absolutely Mackie! Great time with you and Mike. I’ll see you out there.
@@AboutTrout Hey James, did you ever get the pictures I sent you?
@@AboutTrout Hey James, did the pictures I sent you ever arrive. ?
Like I always say, "no salt, no steel"
💯 even though they’re fun sized they hath been in the salt.
Patrick is a gangsta.
Welcome to the hood and looks like Luke got you schooled up. Great video and good times!
It was awesome!
We was g’d up from feet up.
I was gona reach out to you....make sure your still alive, looks like fun out there.
Very much alive! Record season for about trout
As someone who fishes the Trinity River for a living I’m sorry to say but you missed the peak you got to come back in January and February that’s when we get the really big steelhead
Hope to make it back out! These fun sized ones were still a blast.
I’m trying to get him to come back and get some of those ones. Haha
the goggle tan means he's legit
YOURE SO ABOUT TROUT 😂😂
😂
looks like douglas city.
Hey James, what set up did you use with the euro rig for the Trinity?
30ft if straight 1x bicolor to a tippet ring. Depth to dropper (caddis), 2ft to the egg we had on the point. Egg was unweighted the caddis had a 4.6mm bead. I fished my buddy Luke’s reddington strike with a tilt reel.
@@AboutTrout thanks. Going there the end of the month! See what happens 😉
You looked like a cold winter's day and the other guy looked like a nice fall day. You must be skinny. Nice seeing a pretty Trinity river. The one here in DFW Texas is not
😂
I’ve never been called a nice fall day, but I’ll take it!!! Haha
canelo alvarez
I mean I am Mexican 🇲🇽 on my moms side
Dang... you fish like you are a guide or something.
"Stop mending so much, geez."
"Don't set so hard, geez."
ha ha ha ha
Where abouts on the east coast you from
Northern Virginia aka the 703
titlesays fly fishing you are bobber fishing
I’m fly fishing with bobbers
@@AboutTrout i can bobber fish with a gear rod but cant fly fish with gear
@@donstriepeke8724 I’m proud of you