Good stuff PV

30 years ago before Andy Guibord got a boat and started fly fishing for Stripers he was a very serious lower Yuba river "Rat".

Andy knows all the bugs well there and the timings.

Mid-summer I heard Andy recommend small Dave's hoppers fished along the edges on windy afternoons.

Andy Guibord and Mark Kranhold kind of pioneered the Sculpin pattern and fishing technique on the American river, maybe 20 years ago.


My friend Rich Plath fished the Yuba for a long time and I think he said he mostly swings an Olive Woolley Bugger on a sink-tip.

Another old friend who did lots of raft trips down our West slope rivers always used a black Woolley Bugger on a sink-tip.