California

A trophy brown trout fishery flowing out of Bridgeport Reservoir through scenic Eastern Sierra ranchland.

A geothermally-warmed spring creek near Mammoth Lakes with outstanding dry fly fishing for trophy browns and rainbows.

An Eastern Sierra spring creek near Bishop and Mammoth, renowned for large wild browns in its upper meadow section.

A premier tailwater flowing from Lake Tahoe through the Sierra and into Nevada, offering year-round trophy trout fishing for rainbows and browns.

An Eastern Sierra freestone river near Coleville, offering excellent dry fly and streamer fishing for browns and rainbows.

A wild North Coast river system in Mendocino and Humboldt counties, famous for winter steelhead runs through remote canyon country.

A Sonoma County fishery with seasonal steelhead and resident trout, flowing through wine country from Ukiah to the coast.

California's last major undammed river in Del Norte County, prized for winter steelhead and salmon in pristine old-growth forest.

A world-class spring creek fishery in Shasta County, known for large rainbow trout in gin-clear water.

A storied Northern California spring creek, offering technical dry fly and nymph fishing for rainbows and browns.

A major river system flowing from Klamath Falls, Oregon through Northern California canyon country, with seasonal steelhead, salmon, and native redband trout.

The tailwater below Keswick Dam is a year-round rainbow trout fishery famous for its large fish and caddis hatches.

A classic freestone river with redband rainbows in its upper reaches and big browns in the lower tailwater.

A challenging, boulder-strewn freestone river in Shasta County with strong populations of rainbow trout.

A technical tailwater below Monticello Dam holding wild coastal rainbow trout with steelhead genetics, fished primarily with small nymphs and midges on light tippet.

A premier tailwater and steelhead fishery flowing out of Trinity Dam through the Shasta-Trinity forest.

A freestone river flowing through the Dunsmuir area, known for wild rainbows and strong summer caddis hatches.

The tailwater below Oroville Dam in Butte County is a productive trout and steelhead fishery with consistent year-round flows.

A Sierra foothill freestone with dramatic swimming holes, wild rainbows, and seasonal steelhead in its lower reaches.

A warm-water canyon fishery below Lake Isabella, featuring aggressive smallmouth bass in boulder-strewn pocket water and stocked trout near the dam.

A southern Sierra freestone river near Kernville, offering solitude and wild rainbow and brown trout in a dramatic granite canyon.