Middle Fork American River Aerial View

[Jeff Putnam]

A video we recently produced for Horseshoe Bar Preserve on the Middle Fork American River. What an incredibly beautiful fishery!
-JP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejt...ature=youtu.be

[Larry S]

Jeff,
Beautiful video. Is that normal flow?
Best,
Larry S

[Jeff Putnam]

The river flows normally about 200-1000 cfs, increase for rafting. During the video they were approximately 450 cfs and slightly off color. -JP

[ZWhit]

I could watch stuff like that all day. How cool is that!

[Mark Kranhold]

Could you imagine fishing for salmon and steelhead on that water! Talked to a old timer who has a ranch on the south fork around Coloma area and he remembered catching salmon as a kid before the dam went up. Epic!!

[O.mykiss Hunter]

I was thinking the same thing Mark, how cool would it be to catch adult steelhead in that kind of scenery! A lot different than the lower A.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Could you imagine fishing for salmon and steelhead on that water! Talked to a old timer who has a ranch on the south fork around Coloma area and he remembered catching salmon as a kid before the dam went up. Epic!!

Sadly we dammed up over 90% of the salmon and steelhead streams in California. Years ago I heard stories of salmon being up in many of our larger trout streams spawning.