I think I need to back-peddal a bit from my disclosure about the Somes Bar Liars Club as a start to today's entry. No matter how much editorializing, literary aggrandizing, fish talking, tall tale building and opinion sharing I present for…
This week there were several groups making their annual return trek to Marble Mountain Ranch in pursuit of Steelhead. These particular groups tend to be more self sufficient and do their own meals in the cabins and bank fish rather…
I keep hearing about the horrific crowding on the Trinity. When I drive by the access points near Junction city or Douglas City and see trucks and trailers in over-flow parking up on the highway, it gives me that "disconnected-lost-in-the-crowd"…
The problem with a phenomenal day fishing is, from a guides perspective, often manifested in the call to repeat the day on the next year's booking. Bruce Sr. and Bruce Jr. have been fishing with me for many years, and…
The last two days brought the Mid Klamath some strong winds that lasted to the last hours of the day. The winds made it all but impossible to hold any advantageous boat positions or to effectively cast from bank locations. …
Tonight's Klamath River flows are at 3400cfs in Orleans and the river is scoured clean from the 30,000cfs (at Orleans) pulse of water the last storm put through the canyon. The Algae seems all but gone, the leaf liter is…
I am going to start by posting a graph of Klamath River flows at Orleans: As you can see, the storm pattern we are exiting pushed the flow at Orleans to 30,000 cubic feet per second. Last week we were…
Thursday the 17th of October was a day of elemental force. Gail winds were blowing my boat upstream at times, making down-river travel a difficult venture. Rain was often driven into our faces rather than falling on our backs. The…
I only have time for a quick thought, since I have a trip to get out. Some of our guests have left the ranch early in the face of the rain. The river is now at 2700 cfs in Orleans…
We have had rain over the last two days, but the river has held constant at 2200 cfs in Orleans and about 58 degrees. Yes, there are fish. Yes there are adult fish. And yes, there are lots of half…