North Fork of the Feather River, bellow Belden.

[Adam Grace]

The flows on the North Fork are great right now. It's not an easy place to fish considering the large rocks and boulders. The wading can be a little difficult but at least the trout are strong and challenging. My buddy Gregg and I fished it for a little while a couple days ago. My best fish of the day was this guy:



She took me down 2 runs and put one helluva bend in my 4wt ARC.

Here'a another fish that I caught earlier:




Gregg caught a few, unfortunately this was the only picture that I got of his fish:



We had a fun trip. If you live near the NF Feather then go and give it a try but I wouldn't necessarily take a long trip trip to fish this dam-riddled plunge-pool river.

Does anyone else have any comments about the NF feather south of Belden?

[EricO]

Nice pictures Adam.

Ya, the wading is tough- the boulders can be massive. My favorite is stepping on a rock
only to find out it's 5 ft long and go sliding to the other end. Lol. Splash.

Strong fish too. What flies worked for you? Seems like pt's have always been a go-to
there for me...golden stones when the time is right.

Seems like they've been screwing with the flows alot there. Prolly for the rafters and kayakers I'm guessing.

Eric

[Adam Grace]

Eric, PTs are producing for me as well. I fish them under a dry dropper instead of casting all of that nymphing junk. I haven't seen a flow fluctuation but I don't watch the flow charts either.

[Barnett]

The flows in the Rock Creek section went way down recently. Fishing was good in this area over the weekend. I caught about 15 from 12-18" ...beautiful, healthy, wild fish! Pat's rubberlegs were getting the largest fish, while midge and caddis pupa were taking fish at times.

[Sammy]

the smile says it all. nice report

[Scott V]

That is some nice looking water.

[EricO]

Hit the NF Feather yesterday for 10+ hours. Feel like I was hit by a semi. No matter what the flows, that river beats the crap out of you. Did the splits numerous times yesterday sliding over rocks...feel like a dang gymnast.

Water felt awesome. Took a few unplanned dunkings...up to my neck! Lol. Woke my butt up fast!

Some pics and a few vid's from yesterday.

http://youtu.be/LmQQmk4TA20

http://youtu.be/oYAO9tzZXO4

EO