Originally Posted by
Bill Kiene semi-retired
Great info guys......thanks for sharing.
We use to drive there maybe 40 years ago, drive, walk and wade the lower flow section mostly.
I once ran into Mike Mercer from The Fly Shop there. He is a master angler and one of the good guys.
He was using a 10' Scott #5 weight 2 pc graphite rod, floating line, pre-indicator time, big black weighted rubber legs with a globug
dropper. I think that Mike grew up in Chico or Oroville?
Chris Pasley, top angler, worked for us at Kiene's and back then he guides on foot on the lower Feather river.
Chris connected many of our customers to that river with his amazing skills.
Oroville dam and hatchery is slightly newer than our Nimbus dam and hatchery plus it is further north so it is a better fishery.
In Nor Cal, close to us, we have the Sacramento, Feather, Yuba and American rivers........pretty lucky.
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