FF close to SF in April?

Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.


Am I wrong? Is there someplace good I might get to with a reasonable
drive (and/or hike) from SF in april?

Thanks, Tim

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Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.


Am I wrong? Is there someplace good I might get to with a reasonable
drive (and/or hike) from SF in april?

Thanks, Tim

Have you considered fishing sal****er ? I would guess that striped
bass should still be in the bay in April.

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Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.

....how about the Russian river, probably less than a hundred miles north of
San Fran.

Frank Sr.
...give it a good googling

wrote:
Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest
areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.

I tried the Russian River once. The area I tried wasn't too far from the
main highway (101 I think???). It was loaded with smallies but I'll be
damned if I could figure out how to entice 'em. I tried every streamer in
my fly box. Never fished for 'em before so I obviously was doing something
wrong ... but they were there by the bucket load.

There's also a big reservoir just northeast of Napa, I think it starts with
a 'B' but it's been so long I cannot remember the name. Anyway, it has a
tailwater trout fishery below the dam.

-dnc-

Fiddleaway wrote:

There's also a big reservoir just northeast of Napa, I think it starts with
a 'B' but it's been so long I cannot remember the name. Anyway, it has a
tailwater trout fishery below the dam.

Probably Berryessa. I've never heard about he tailwater.

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rw wrote
Probably Berryessa. I've never heard about he tailwater.

That's it! It does have a tailwater ... forgot that name too ... and it's
been in the news more recently as a site where the New Zealand mud snail
has surfaced.
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-dnc-

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Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.


Am I wrong? Is there someplace good I might get to with a reasonable
drive (and/or hike) from SF in april?

Thanks, Tim


Normally there would be a few options .... THIS year the water is very high,
thus far, at the ones I sometimes visit

http://www.ncffb.org/


is a better place to get the information

So is everything blown out, as far as you know?

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll take a look at that website...

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So is everything blown out, as far as you know?

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll take a look at that website...



Now is not April, but, now you'd be hard pressed to find anything too
exciting. The general season won't be open yet in April but there are
several decent to good streams that are open all year ( or only closed Oct
to Jan for salmon ). I live very near one of those, the Stanislaus, and it
is currently VERY high and dirty, my guess is that all the others are too
.....as I said .. now..... but things change fairly fast

wrote:
Quick question: is there any fly fishing a drivable distance from San
Francisco in April? My vague feeling is that the logical closest areas
(the sierras is where I went last year) don't really start until July.


Am I wrong? Is there someplace good I might get to with a reasonable
drive (and/or hike) from SF in april?

Thanks, Tim

If I am still in this part of the world in April I will be going up to
Clear Lake. I haven't been there for years but in my misspent youth I
caught many bass, crappies and bluegills while floating around in the
tulies.
I understand now it suffers (like all Califonia) from to many people.
April can be to early or just right, depends on the weather.