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About Our Service....

We are proud to introduce you to the leading guide on the West Slope Of the Sierra. Our service offers the most diverse guided adventures to be found anywhere. From casting a #22 dry fly to a sipping rainbow, to throwing a shooting head ninety feet at an awaiting striper, or hooking into a huge smallmouth bass on a popper, we have something for every anglers taste.

We guide over 800 miles of moving waters full of Native trout, steelhead and salmon, as well as striped, smallmouth, largemouth, and Spotted bass, for our clients to explore. We also offer over 20 still water fisheries, that produce trophy fishing unmatched anywhere. Our service also works with many private land owners, to assure that our clients receive the most "untouched" waters available in this area.

We also host many international fishing adventures to such amazing destinations as Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Baja, Canada and South America just to name a few. With so much area available to us, we make it a point to rarely encounter other anglers while guiding our clients.

With all of the Year Round opportunities that we offer, only 2 hours from the S.F. Bay and Sacramento areas, we have only one Question...

Isn't it time you discover the secrets the West Slope of the Sierra Holds?

 

What's new...

West Slope Sierra Report Spring/Early Summer Report...

 

The 2009 winter steelhead season came in strong and finished even stronger. As Spring has arrived, the fishing has become even better. The rivers have now risen as a part of the simulated spring run off we provide the fish every year. When this occurs, the fish remaining in the Delta begin to migrate up the rivers in a big hurry! We have not had a single trip hook less than 15 fish during the past month and many trips have seen between 25-30 hook up's for half pounders that are in the 14-19 inch range. These same trips have seen an average of 3-5 hits per day from fish in the 21-28 inch range. We have been hooking many of these fish on emergers and dries, as the big may fly and caddis hatches are coming off strong! On top of that, the stripers are here!!! This is one of the biggest pushes of early stripers we have seen in years. On a trip two days ago ,we hooked and landed 11 fish with the biggest at around ten pounds! This is a very good sign of things to come and is an excellent addition to the already awesome steelhead action. If you fish it right, you should have no problem hooking your share of steelies and stripers on the same float. If you have been waiting for the bite to get hot, now is the time. The Spring steelhead fishing will stay hot until late June, or until the river temperature rises too high. Due to some cancellations, we do have a select few dates open over the next few weeks. If you would like to get a piece of this awesome steelhead and striper action, drop us a line and we can discuss availability.

Our river smallmouth and striper fishing is just starting to happen and will be very good as the West Slope tailwaters recede and the water warms up a bit. The first week of June through October is the time we hit our river bass and the striper fishing (which has already started) will last until mid August. You can expect excellent sight fishing for trophy bass, as well as stripers that will range 3-10 pounds on the average and the possibility of trophy fish in the 15-30 pound range will be there on every trip. River bass fishing is my personal favorite on the West Slope. The sure numbers and of fish, top water action, sight fishing experience, and shot at big stripers, all done in a smaller river situation where in most cases, you see the hit and watch the entire fight unfold before your eyes is what keeps me in California during most of the Summer.

Our reservoir smallmouth fishing has been excellent on many of the West Slope Lakes and will just keep getting better over the next few weeks. If you had not had the chance to explore these very under utilized fly rod fisheries, you have really missed out. 30-50 fish days are very common for fish that average 1.5 to three pounds and more trophy specimens, in the 4-8 pound range are hooked daily. These trips can produce hits from small, spotted and largemouth bass as well as trophy trout, crappie, catfish, carp and blue gil. The reservoir fishing will stay strong through the month of June. After that, we will be doing early morning top water trips on the reservoirs until the fall. These trips can be really fun as we will launch the boat at first light and hit it hard until the bite slows. Then, many of our clients choose to do our species sampler trips as we will have some lunch then head to the Sierra rivers for some awesome dry fly fishing for sierra trout. Tremendous top water bass fishing, big bows and browns on the surface, what more could you ask for?

The sierra trout season has begun and a few small sierra rivers are starting to give up some action. Expect fishing to greatly improve as we get into June and July as runoff recedes and the dry fly fishing gets hot and heavy. With the economy being what it is, this might be the right time to let us provide you let a sierra sampler trip. These trips are designed to show visiting anglers as many spots as we can over a two or three day trip so that they may come back on their own and have miles of water to explore in the future. We will fish as many as 4 different section of one of West Slope Sierra rivers in a day. These trips are client favorites and run from June through August. Finding rivers that you can come back to on your own will provide years of great angling opportunities without having to spend money on guided outings every time you go out.

Northern California Southern Oregon Report...

The 2008-2009 steelhead fishing on the Rogue river provided some of the biggest fish I have ever seen on the Rogue. We hooked hundreds of fish in the 28-34 inch range with the 35 inch 16 pound pig of Tom Jansen's from Oakland, being the biggest fish to the boat this year! Now, as the steelhead fishing begins to slow, the chinook salmon fishing is just starting to heat up. We are currently booking for the 2009 fall steelhead season and still have a select few slots left. We are expecting a big year on the Rogue as we will be seeing the return of the 2005/2006 offspring, some of the biggest runs the rogue has ever had.

We have seen the first 1,500 chinook salmon come over the Dam already and have been hooking fish from 15-30 pounds already. These fish are as hot as they come once they are hooked. Even fishing with a ten weight, these fish are a handful. The Spring Salmon fishing will peak over the next 6 weeks and we are expecting a much more prolific run of fish this season. The trout fishing on the Upper Rogue will begin very soon and the huge salmon fly hatch with be the target time to catch dozens of hungry rainbows and cutthroat on the dry flies. With the occasional steelhead slamming a dry fly using a 4 wt. as well, these trips provide some really fun action and a nice change from slinging tons of weight on heavy rods for salmon and steelhead.

We will also be offering trout trips on the Klamath river for it's legendary red band trout. These fish are big and hard fighting. Pound for pound, I will put the right up there with their distant cousins, the Klamath steelhead that inhabit the lower river. We will also be offering trout trips on the Smith, Upper Rogue, Chetco and many other less know, but just as prolific trout fisheries of Southern Oregon and Northern Ca. So many people come to this area for the amazing steelhead fishing, that's what originally brought me here. However, the mountain trout fishing in the area is something that few have experienced. We would love to show you the area this season and introduce you to what may be the best kept trophy trout destination on the West Coast

I wish to thank all of you who made it up this year to experience the West Slope Steelhead rivers as well as the Southern Oregon area. I know times are tough for many and your continued business is so greatly appreciated. There have been so many guides and flyshops that had to close their operations this year, it has been a little scary. I know that If it wasn't for the very close friendships I have formed with so many of you over the years, our guide service probably wouldn't have survived this economic downturn.

We will be on the water daily to try and bring you the best experience possible and can't wait to fish with all of you "REEL" soon

Until next time... see you out there!

Steve Walser and Everyone at Sierra West Adventures...

Please enjoy your tour of our site.

We hope to get fishing with you "REEL" soon.... If we can answer any questions please don't hesitate to call (209) 588-1306 or you can E-mail us at....

steve@mlode.com

*Note: SWA requires a 50% deposit on any trip booked. SWA Does Not Issue Cash Refunds On Any Deposit. In the event of cancellation By SWA, the full amount of your deposit will be issued in a gift certificate. This may be used at any time in the future to deposit another outing. You must cancel any booked trip before one full month of the original date booked, or SWA will retain your deposit, with no type of refund issued. If canceled before that time, you will be issued a gift certificate for the full price of your deposit. Any trip canceled with less than one week notice will be charged the full price of the outing, including any lodging balances owed.

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