Truly an unbelievable opening day of the late fall salmon season. We set out with pretty low expectations with all the low salmon numbers at the hatcheries this year.  But by 9:45am we had full boat limits of nice big king salmon.  There were 6 of us in the boat today, and with a one fish limit it was like the good old days, ( a hand full of years ago ) drop in and get one.  Fish ranged from 12-34 lbs and all but one was dime bright.  We were on the phone all moring with other boat’s getting report’s up and down the river that had all got fish. I look for this kind of fishing to last for some time considering the span of river that seem to loaded with fish.

It’s been a very busy 25 days.  Duck season has been truly unbelievable so far in Dingville, where I have been working as their hunting guide.  Dingville had their best opening weekend in 15 years; we killed over 160 ducks, of which 30 were mallards. There are a whole bunch of birds in the North Valley.  This is in part because we had a better wet spring and all the new wetland projects throughout the Valley raised a lot of local mallards and teal.

Water goes on at my blind next to Dingville this week and it should be shooting good by Thanksgiving week. I have lots of dates still open in December.

On the fishing front, I ran a few steel head trips up the Yuba River with good results; landing between 2 and 4 real steel head and about 12-15 trout per trip. On October 29, I fished the upper Sacramento from Los Molinos to Salt Creek; there are very few salmon beds to target for steel head, but there are a few and we found them.  We landed 7 real nice steel head between 1and 3 pounds, with one being a triple hook-up. About 10-15 trout mixed in made for a great day of fishing.