Fishing Reports for California by Power Current (Western U.S. River Reports)

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Reporting river action for the U.S., Northwest, West, and Southwestern United States. Local fishing reports for U.S. Rivers.

Favorite Game Fish

"My favorite game fish is steelhead. In fresh water they are the most prized on the west coast. The first run is pretty much all theirs. They pretty much do whatever they want unless you use some heavy heavy tackle. I think people tend to land 1 out of every 3 steelhead they hook. They used to be called the fish of a thousand casts, but if you study the guides and learn from them you can catch alot of steelhead. They are good eating, kind of a cross between a salmon and a trout, they're a rainbow trout but after spending some time in the ocean they kinda taste in-between a salmon and a rainbow trout. They're called steelhead cause there's actually some metal in their head, cause they eat alot of crabs that have alot of natural iron in their shells. Just kidding, actually its because they live in the blue ocean and to camoflouge themselves they adapt to that blue color. When they come out of the ocean theyre like a steel blue on top."
-Justan Angler

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Reporting river action for the U.S. Northwest, West, and Southwestern United States. Local fishing reports for U.S. Rivers.

Favorite Game Fish

"My favorite game fish is steelhead. In fresh water they are the most prized on the west coast. The first run is pretty much all theirs. They pretty much do whatever they want unless you use some heavy heavy tackle. I think people tend to land 1 out of every 3 steelhead they hook. They used to be called the fish of a thousand casts, but if you study the guides and learn from them you can catch alot of steelhead. They are good eating, kind of a cross between a salmon and a trout, they're a rainbow trout but after spending some time in the ocean they kinda taste in-between a salmon and a rainbow trout. They're called steelhead cause there's actually some metal in their head, cause they eat alot of crabs that have alot of natural iron in their shells. Just kidding, actually its because they live in the blue ocean and to camoflouge themselves they adapt to that blue color. When they come out of the ocean theyre like a steel blue on top."
-Justan Angler

Tell us your favorite game fish and why!

Recent Reports in California:

Piru Creek (CA) - 05/08/2008
Rattlesnake Yips! I worry about my pup
she would have tried to eat the damn thing...
- ontherise more...

Piru Creek (CA) - 05/08/2008
Nothing at all. I went up above the falls a little short of the maintanance road to the tunnel. No luck there so I went below the falls and fished back down to the parking lot. Nothing but a rattlesnake.
- James more...

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Alameda
Codornices Creek Redwood Creek Sausal Creek

Alpine
Carson River Corral Valley Creek Coyote Valley Creek Meiss Lake Milk Ranch Creek Murray Canyon Creek Silver King Creek Upper Truckee River

Butte
Big Chico Creek Feather River Oroville Lake

Calaveras
Big Tree Creek Calaveras River Stanislaus River

Colusa
Lett's Lake Stony Creek

Contra Costa
Mitchell Creek Pinole Creek Walnut Creek Wildcat Creek

Del Norte
Earl Lake Illinois River Smith River

Fresno
Boggy Creek Cold Creek Cow Creek Kings River Mammoth Pool Mammoth Pool Tributaries Millerton Reservoir Mono Creek Shaver Lake

Glenn
Black Butte River Plaskett Meadows Lakes

Humboldt
Bear River Big Lagoon Big Springs Reservoir Bilk Creek Reservoir Blue Lakes Chimney Dam Reservoir Dufurrena Ponds Elk River Freshwater Creek Freshwater Lagoon Humboldt River Klopp Lake Knott Creek Reservoir Little Humboldt River, NF Little River Mad River Martin Creek Mattole River Mcdonald Creek Onion Valley Reservoir Quinn River, East Fork Redwood Creek Stone Lagoon Van Duzen River

Inyo
Cottonwood Creek Cottonwood Creek Drainage Lakes Diaz Lake Haiwee Reservoir Haiwee Reservoirs Little Cottonwood Creek Los Angeles Aqueduct Owens River

Kern
Isabella Lake Kern River

Lake
Ana Reservoir Ana River Antelope Creek Arkansas River Berryessa Lake Tributaries Cache Creek Chewaucan River Clear Lake Tributaries Cogswell Creek Cottonwood Creek Cottonwood Reservoir Crane Creek Crooked Creek Crystal Lake Dog Lake Drews Creek Drews Reservoir Dry Creek Goose Lake Hidden Lakes Kelley Creek Lake Fork Creek Pillsbury Lake tributaries Pine Creek Tandy Creek Thomas Creek Thompson Valley Reservoir

Lassen
Almanor Lake Tributaries Cedar Creek Eagle Lake Nelson Corral Reservoir Newlands Lake tributaries Pine Creek and Pine Creek Slough Susan River

Los Angeles
Castaic Lake Piru Creek San Gabriel River Topanga Canyon Creek

Madera
Hensley Lake Portuguese Creek

Marin
Kent Lake tributaries Lagunitas Creek Lagunitas Lake Nicasio Lake tributaries Redwood Creek Soulajoule Lake Walker Creek

Mariposa
Chowchilla River Eastman Lake McClure Reservoir Merced River

Mendocino
Albion River Alder Creek Big River Brush Creek Cottoneva Creek Elk Creek Garcia River Greenwood Creek Gualala River Mendocino Lake Tributaries Navarro River Noyo River Ten Mile River Usal Creek

Merced
Merced River

Modoc
Cottonwood Creek Davis Creek Lassen Creek Pine Creek Silver Creek Sworinger Lake Tributaries Willow Creek

Mono
Bridgeport Reservoir Tributaries By-Day Creek Convict Creek Cottonwood Creek Crooked Creek Crowley Lake Deadman Creek Fish Slough Hilton Creek Hot Creek Junction Lake Kirman (Carmen) Lake Kirman (Carmen) Lake Tributaries Lane Lake Laurel Lakes Lee Vining Creek McGee Creek McLeod Lake Mill Creek Parker Creek Robinson Creek Rock Creek Diversion Channel Roosevelt Lake Rush Creek Silver Creek Topaz Lake Walker Creek Walker River Whiskey Creek Wolf Creek

Monterey
Arroyo Seco River Big Sur River Carmel River El Estero Lake Las Gazas Creek Limeklin Creek Little Sur River Los Padres Reservoir Nacimiento River Pajaro River Salinas River Salmon Creek San Antonio Lake San Clemente Creek San Clemente Reservoir

Napa
Hennessey Lake Tributaries Napa River

Nevada
Deer Creek Dry Creek Independence Lake Macklin Creek Martis Lake Milton Lake and Middle Fork Yuba River Sagehen Creek Truckee River Yuba River, Middle Fork

Orange
San Diego Creek San Gabriel River San Juan Creek Trabucco Creek

Placer
Auburn Ravine Creek Bear River Coon Creek Dry Creek Pole Creek Tahoe Lake

Plumas
Bucks Lake Tributaries Butt Creek Butt Valley Reservoir Caribou Reservoir Davis Lake Tributaries Feather River, Middle Fork Feather River, North Fork Yellow Creek

Riverside
Diamond Valley Lake Skinner Lake

Sacramento
American River Cosumnes River

San Benito
San Benito River

San Bernardino
Big Bear Lake Tributaries Deep Creek Silverwood Lake

San Diego
Barrett Lake Cuyamaca Lake El Capitan Reservoir Hodges Lake San Luis Rey River San Mateo Creek Santa Margarita River Sweetwater River Upper Otay Lake

San Joaquin
Mokelumne River

San Luis Obispo
Arroyo Grande Creek Chorro Creek Coon Creek Islay Creek Los Osos Creek San Luis Obispo Creek San Simeon Creek See Canyon Creek

San Mateo
Alanbique Creek Arroyo de los Frijoles Arroyo Leon Butano Creek Little Butano Creek Pescadero Creek Purisima Creek San Gregorio Creek

Santa Barbara
Santa Ynez River Sisquoc River

Santa Clara
Coyote Creek Guadalupe River Llagas Creek Pescadero Creek San Francisquito Creek Stevens Creek Upper Penitencia Creek Uvas or Carnadero Creek

Santa Cruz
Aptos Creek Corralitos Creek San Lorenzo River Scott Creek Soquel Creek Waddell Creek

Shasta
Bear Creek Burney Creek Cassel Forebay Castle Creek Fall River Hat Creek Hat Creek No. 1 and Cassel Forebays McCloud River Moosehead Creek Pit River Rock Creek Shasta Lake Soda Creek

Sierra
Little Truckee River Yuba River, North Fork

Siskiyou
Applegate River Bass Lake Bogus Creek Indian Tom Lake Orr Lake Salmon River Scott River Shasta River Sheepheaven Creek Shovel Creek Siskiyou Lake Trout Lake

Solano
Putah Creek

Sonoma
Laguna de Santa Rosa Russian Gulch Russian River Salmon Creek Santa Rosa Creek Sonoma Creek Sonoma Lake Tributaries

Sutter
Butte Creek

Tehama
Antelope Creek Battle Creek Deer Creek Mill Creek

Trinity
Balm of Gilead Creek Eel River Grass Valley Creek Reservoir Trinity Lake

Tulare
Golden Trout Wilderness Area Kaweah Reservoir Kaweah River Success Reservoir Tule River

Tuolumne
Big Trees Creek Hobart Creek Sand Bar Forebay Stanislaus River, Middle Fork Tuolumne River

Ventura
Calleguas Creek Casitas Lake Santa Paula Creek Sespe Creek

Yuba
Yuba River

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Favorite Rivers in the Northwest

Deschutes River

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Fishing Tips

"When teaching kids, the important thing is they have a short attention span so take them where they are gonna get some bites, where theres alot of fish."
-Jeff

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Popular Fishing Rivers in California

American River