Feather River Fishing Report 01/09/20

Happy new year, and hope everyone got that new fly rod and reel you asked Santa for! Now it’s time to hit the water. 

Feather River: as of 01/02/20

I’ve had the chance to be on the lower feather River a decent amount over the past weeks and it’s consistently still producing fish. The steelhead are lingering through the low flow section, and the opportunity still exists. Fish have moved from chowing on salmon eggs and are getting more big focused, eating caddis and beatis flies. We can expect to work a little harder in the sections from highway 70 to outlet over the next month before we see consistent (springers) in the system. But with the fish not on eggs mean it’s almost time to start fishing Alven patterns! Swinging these imitations on a light weight two handed rod or a single hand rod can be very fun and exciting change from nymph fishing. I anticipate a good January over all on the feather river. Majority of the fish are up top above highway 70 stacked in there, though the concentration of fish is strong up top near the hatchery so is the pressure of anglers above highway 70 so if your looking to get away from the crowds floating the lower sections would be your best bet to maximize your numbers. 

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Tight lines.

Colin C.