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.

[John Sv]

I thought the same thing!!!
I wonder how many of the posters here did the same. Ohh if we could just get them over just a couple of dams...

[Scott V]

Nice drone work.

Is that "private" water at the preserve?

[Frank Alessio]

Nice drone work.

Is that "private" water at the preserve?

It is Scott...But you can join...Call Tom Bartos...He seems like a pretty nice person....May be a waiting list....

[hwchubb]

Pretty water, but disappointing to see more private water. Not something I can get excited about.

Some beautiful public water upstream of Horseshoe Bar as well, but have never fished it.