While on the way to work, coming in from Davis, CA to our fly shop in Sacramento, every morning we see tons of boats around the mouth of the American River fishing for salmon.
I hear there are lots of anglers and lots of salmon up in the Lower American River all the way to the Nimbus Hatchery and Nimbus Dam.
This is a great time to take the family to the Nimbus Hatchery at Hazel Avenue and the river to see the salmon jumping up the fish ladder to spawn.
When I was a kid in Sacramento in the 1960s we had huge runs of all anadromous fish, especially King Salmon. In the fall you could almost walk across the mouth of the american River on the boats that were trolling there.
Looks like we are having a really big run this fall too.
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Some years back (5-10 years ago ?) when we had some big runs of salmon in the river here many actually caught salmon while wading with single hand fly rods and fast sinking lines.
Joe Shirshac, Chuck Campana and Andy Guibord were catching lots of nice salmon back then below the Goethe Park Bridge (called River Bend Park now?) on the park side.
Now some might be after them this fall with Spey rods.
Andy will be working Friday, Saturday and Sunday most weeks so come in if you want to get ideas on how to land a big King Salmon on a fly.
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