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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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