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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 Summer Report...

The Hot Summer days are here and so is the fishing on the West Slope Sierra Rivers! We are having great mid Summer trout fishing in some of our upper elevation trout streams, with many fish really starting to key into the dry fly action. Good hatches of PMD and Caddis are showing up daily and the mid day terrestrial action has picked up and is producing a good number of larger fish to the surface as well. The fish in these streams average 10-14 inches and fish in the 15-17 inch range are very common. Fish that get into that more trophy size range (18-22) inches are seen and hooked daily as well. These are small to mid size streams that we typically fish with a 3-5 wt rod on rods With dry dry-dropper methods being used the vast majority of the time. These native fish put quite a bend in the rod and the scenery is unmatched anywhere. The sight fishing aspect of these trips is what our clients really love. At times it is more like hunting than fishing as you stalk a nice fish, cast and watch it come to and take your fly. If you have not had the chance to experience the West Slope Sierra trout streams, or you are an old Sierra veteran who is looking to find some new water to explore, now is the time to get up there and do it!

The Summer smallmouth fishing is as good as it has been over the past few seasons. We are seeing an average 40 fish day with fish up to 4 pound fish being landed daily. A good number of larger fish are being caught now as well and the early and late day top water bite is awesome! Our guide Nick Anderson and I just returned from taking our son's Logan and Kameron, to the Umpqua river on a little smallmouth adventure. While we hooked many fish and the scenery was awesome I have to say, " There is no river on the West coast that provides better fishing and solitude than our West Slope smallmouth fisheries"! The more I travel ,the more I realize how special these fisheries really are. The West Slope smallie bite is on and now is the time to hit it hard!

Rogue River Summer Report...

The 2009 Summer steelhead run on the Rogue is off to an amazing start. As I write this, we already have 3,500 plus nickel bright steelhead in the Upper Rogue. Those are the best numbers we have seen in 4 years for the early part of the run and more fish than we had by October 15th of last year. Looking back at historical data, we are on track to have a big year on the Rogue this season. The numbers so far are very similar to a few years ago when the river saw 20,000 plus fish! We have been out daily hooking into numbers of steelhead that range 25-27 inches on the average, with a good number of fish in the 28-32 inch range being hooked as well. These fish are red hot! I hooked a fish Yesterday about 20 feet from the boat that took a near backing run up a rapid and jumped five times before it finally came to net. This type of action will just get better and better as the season progress's. If you are an old Rogue River dog looking to get into action "like it use to be", this just might be the season to get back up. If you have never had the chance to experience the Rogue River, I can't think of a better time over the past few seasons than right now. I feel so fortunate to finally have a home in the Rogue Valley and the ability to show so many of you why I love this river so much. I have spent the last 15 years of my life visiting the Rogue and I learn more and more every day I'm on the water. The methods and techniques used to hook these fish, the size and the power of the fish hooked, the unmatched beauty of the river and the Rogue valley, and the amazing group of guides I work with here, has made the Rogue a favorite of so many of our clients.

The Rogue River can be reached in no more than a six hour drive from the Bay Area and it gets even closer, the further north or west you live. Flights from the Bay area and Sacramento take just an hour in some cases and very reasonable round trip rates can be found for the late Summer/Fall season. If you choose to fly, there is typically no need to rent a car as we can (in most cases) provide transportation to and from the Airport (a 15 minute drive) for our clients (a 15 minute drive). Once you are here and settled into your room, many dinning choices are only a short walk from the hotel and some delivery options are available. We will pick you up from and bring you back to the hotel as well, so unless there is a special situation, most of our clients let us do all the driving! Many of our clients who have time restrictions, choose to book their flights do they can fish the day they arrive and/or fish the day they fly out. It is very easy to get a full day of fishing in, on either side of your journey to the Rogue if you desire.

With the economy being what it is, the Rogue is a great option. It is a little more than couple of hour drive past Redding, or a quick economic flight from wherever you may live. The fishing at times can rival steelhead destinations anywhere and for those of you who where unable to make a trip to Canada, Alaska, Chile etc. this is a great alternative. You can get that grab only a big ocean run fish can give you, much closer to home and at a fraction of the cost. Most of our Clients do anywhere from a 2-4 day trip to the Rogue. Longer excursions are available and there are few better places to run a group or corporate trip than the Rogue. We do still have some limited availability from now until the late fall, but are bookings will become much tighter as the days go by.

I look forward to fishing with many of you this Summer/Fall season. If we can be of any assistance in planning a trip to either the West Slope or the Rogue this season, please don't hesitate to call.

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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