The Post Season
Living in Dunsmuir, the only opportunity for winter fishing used to mean traveling to the north part of the county and beyond. But since the DFG has seen fit to open the Upper Sacramento River to fishing year-’round (granted, it’s catch and release only this time of year), Dunsmuir makes a great central location for “home games” in the post season, while you can still travel a short distance to anadromous waters for the “away games”. And unlike the Yankees, Dunsmuir is now guaranteed a spot in the post season.
Although I’ve only played in a few “games” this winter, they’ve been pretty productive - if quality rather than quantity is what you’re after. I landed my first sizeable steelhead (24″) fishing the Scott River the day after Thanksgiving. And this past Sunday, I hooked and landed a beautiful, fat Rainbow right here on the Upper Sac. This one’s immortalized in photos on my friend Tom’s site at : www.troutunderground.com In both cases, those fish were the only ones I caught each day. But in my book, I’d give up ten average sized fish for the chance to have caught each of these specimens.
One of the best aspects of this post season fishing is that almost no matter where you go on the river, you’re nearly guaranteed being the only one fishing. Oh yeah, you hear all about how someone “lives to fish”. But most of those folks really mean they’ll only fish when the weather’s nice. Good for us then.
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