Feather River in August?

[speyfool]

Since I was just at the Yuba a few days ago, I thought I'd possibly try the Feather if it was worth the trouble.

What is the trout fishing like on the Feather in mid August around Oroville? Is it worth the trip? Or should I just go back to the Yuba? I've never gone this time of year and I'm not sure what to expect.

Thanks.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

There are some resident rainbow trout/half-pounders in there but I would go real early or really late and fish as high up in the lower river as it is legal.

We had a steelhead and salmon report recently from the lower Feather River.

[Hoser41]

I have a duck blind never the feather. Just outside of Nicolas, off 99. We drive over the feather about 5 minutes before our blind. Is there any fish in that area..

[Mike R]

There are steelhead and salmon that swim by but don't hold too much. You don't find too many of them until you're up above Gridley. That is good striper country though. And not too bad for the ducks either.

Mike

[Darrin.Deel]

You are going to work REALLY hard for the possibility of one fish.

[speyfool]

Thanks for the responses guys. Sounds like I should wait until later in the year when more fish have moved into the system. I wasn't sure if it was the same deal as the Yuba, with enough resident fish to make it worthwhile.

Thanks.

[Ralph]

Next Monday (Aug 24) the Yuba below Englebrite will start to ramp downward through the first week of September. Per the Yuba Accord we're going from 2,000 cfs to around 800. This tends to be a tough few weeks as fish move around a lot, and one day has no bearing on the next when searching for pods.

[windwalker]

hmmm...lowering the flows at this time of the year, that makes a whole lot of since as the salmon are just now coming up to spawn...... Well, at least they aren't dropping the flows in November after all the salmon made their reds like they did last year, couldn't begin to tell you how many reds were left high and dry last year, a real shame in deed. Not really sure what they were doing at engelbright this year, i don't recall ever seeing the river run at 2000 cfs for nearly an entire year straight, they didn't even divert more than 500 cfs below diguere for irrigating during the rice planting season. Ok, enough complaining.

As for fishing the Y, the evening caddis/pmd hatches are pretty much over, stick to fishing the riffles during late morning and early afternoon until the salmon show up. Swinging bright and early isn't a bad bet either.

[Darrin.Deel]

As for fishing the Y, the evening caddis/pmd hatches are pretty much over, stick to fishing the riffles during late morning and early afternoon until the salmon show up. Swinging bright and early isn't a bad bet either.

I boated 22 fish up to 21" with a clipped fin on sunday. If you could find fish, you could convince them to eat. Pretty much forget about throwing the dry fly.

[Scott V]

I boated 22 fish up to 21" with a clipped fin on sunday. If you could find fish, you could convince them to eat. Pretty much forget about throwing the dry fly.

I am confused, you caught 22 fish, but 8 hours prior to that you said "You are going to work REALLY hard for the possibility of one fish". So were you speaking of different water?

I'm not trying to be a jerk, just trying to figure out how you went from hard to catch one fish to catching 22 fish.

[CODY]

He's talking about the lower yuba. Not the Feather.

[Darrin.Deel]

He's talking about the lower yuba. Not the Feather.

Thanks for the clarifacation. Let's all go fish.

[Scott V]

I understand now, thanks.