Klamath Chrome

Arriving late in the evening Saturday night from El Sal, I woke early Sunday to load up and grab Dave for one of the quickest turnarounds of my year. We jumped on the road a ways North in CA to spend few days floating and fishing the Klamath river. With warm temps and no rain, October can prove to be a fantastic time in the area, chasing a few adult steelhead, mixed in with a nice run run of half pounders – a steelhead that only spends a few months at sea before returning to their native stream. 

Dave and I put on at Coon and spend three days floating, camping and having some relaxing fun on the 20 miles to Green Riffle. Dave caught fish each day, which is a huge win for someone learning the art of the flycast. I managed to land one adult and a ton of feisty half pounders. The campsite at Rock Creek was a definite highlight as one of the more beautiful riverside sites I've enjoyed – our firepan sat inches from the water on the diamond-shaped peninsula created at the confluence. 

A special few days just getting to hang with D-Sok.

Happy to be back here after a full year

Hooked into some fun fish on the first day – here just a stone's throw from camp

The only adult we landed

Dave was getting into them, too

Teaching Dave how to release them safely

Grill-master Sok on fajita duty

Stars up over our little tent

Our little camp in the AM as the fog starts to burn off – I had already been fishing for four hours

We were not alone on this trip

Dave getting one final chromer in as we leave our fish-rich, first camp

Nice half-pounder, Dave

Didn't make it too far before we found this nice swing spot

Gorgeous reflections for our lunch stop

Camp spot for night two was at Rock Creek 

With a steak dinner

Accompanied by our preferred drink, of course

And a great fire

Some great stars were out before the huge moon came up for what seemed like daylight 

Pushing off from camp for the final day on the river

We were about to roll through this little rapid but I couldn't help and pull over to fish some good looking water

Where we pulled at least 10 nice half pounders

And hooked up on many more

Dave with a nice one

And another – big trip for D-Sok

After a 20-mile road bike shuttle, we packed up and hit the road for the long haul South