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you enjoy the tour of fishthesierra.com. We hope you take the
time to look at each page as there is great information and photos
on each one. We look forward to fishing with you this season.
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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 Late Winter/Early Spring Report...
It has been a very
interesting (and wet) winter steelhead season here on the West
Slope of the Sierra. The fishing started out a little slow as
the first of the year came around and with some much needed water
injected into the rivers. With all of that water the fish have
begun to show up in big numbers. We have had some very good days
on the water with many half pounders in the 14-18 inch range landed
daily on our trips. We have also hooked and landed some very nice
adult fish in the 20-26 inch range as well.
With the current big
Winter storms hitting the region, we will be seeing many more
new fish entering the system. As the water clears over the next
few days, the fishing will really heat up. We are expecting some
good early spring caddis hatches which will entice the hungry
fish in system to start looking up, providing some very exciting
dry fly action.
For those of you who
haven't made it out much or at all this season, now is a great
time to escape the cabin fever blues and hook up with line ripping
West Slope Steelhead action!
Rogue
River Spring Report...
The
fishing and the weather on the Upper Rogue and South Umpqua rivers
can be summed up in just one word... Awesome! This has been the
most mild Winter I can remember in my 16 years of fishing the
Rogue. The days have been perfect! With warm temperatures and
small rain events here and there to keep the fishing moving up,
the fish are responding to these great conditions. The Rogue
river is experiencing the best winter run we have had in nearly
7 years. There are already 3700 fish over Gold Ray Damn and more
are coming up every day. The average size of the fish have been
in the 26-29 inches and there have been so many fish in the 30-35
inch range we have stopped counting! Last week, I had my son Kameron
up for his birthday. We hooked 27 adults over three days with
the best catch being a 33 inch buck that he caught on 3x tippet
on a size 16 hook! The fish was landed on his 10th birthday and
you have never seen a kid (or his dad) so happy over a fish hitting
the net. It was his personal best fish at only ten years old!
The bar has been raised pretty high after that awesome catch.
Since
then, the fishing has done nothing but get better. The Rogue's
bite is still on fire hooking an average of 8 to 10 adults per
day. With only a 45 minute drive over the hill, the silver beasts
that inhabit the South Umpqua river are slamming our flies harder
than ever. For those of you who have not fished the "South"
it is a small canyon drainage that is one of the most beautiful
rivers I have ever had the pleasure to fish. The short drive over
from Shady Cove in the morning, takes you over a small mountain
range that is just breathtaking. The river is rugged and untamed
by dams and its fish are legendary. Hooking a winter steelhead
in the 20 pound plus range is a common occurrence and the average
fish we are catching this season has been in the 32-35 inch (12-16)
pound range. The river is putting out some impressive numbers
so far and the main part of the run is just starting to hit. Yesterday
we hooked 8 nickel bright fish that took runs that made you question
the backing capacity of your reel. The biggest was a 37 inch 17
pound hen that took almost 40 minutes to land. That fish had us
nearly wrapped around every rock in the river and made some huge
jumps during the fight before she was finally brought to net.
I cant
tell you how many big adults have been hooked so far on the Rogue/Umpqua
rivers so far this year but I can say that everyone who has come
up to fish, has been very sorry to go home at the end of their
trip. With late March through April being the peak of the winter
run it is just going to keep getting better from here on out.
If
you haven't had the chance to fish the Rogue and Umpqua rivers
this would be an awesome time to come up. Only 2.5 hours past
Redding, the beautiful weather and big fish on the Rogue and Umpqua
rivers are closer than you think. We have some availability through
late march and April still open and I would love the chance to
show you why I moved to Southern Oregon this past year.
If
you have any questions or would like assistance in planing a trip,
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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