Archive for May, 2009

May 2009

Shad Run 2009 – Trip 2

[Fly fishing for shad]Another weekend, another fly fishing trip up to the Sacramento River shad grounds – this time with Dave.

We pretty much had the place to ourselves which was awesome, the weather stayed down in the high 80’s (an added little bonus, especially compared to last year’s triple-digit-temperature shad trip we did together) and the fishing was pretty dawgone good to boot! Read the rest of this entry

Posted in: Shad category | By: Doug

May 2009

Shad Run 2009 – Trip 1

[Image]It had been about a month since I last wet a line and even longer than that since I’d busted out a spey rod and the itch was in need of a serious scratching. The time was finally here, it was the middle of May, the shad were in the rivers, and the weather couldn’t have been nicer.

I left the Bay Area at lunchtime on Friday and bee-lined it North. A few hours later I was up to my waist in the river and happily swinging my favorite little spey rod. Read the rest of this entry

Posted in: Shad category | By: Doug