Flyfishing destinations: Recommended Guides, Outfitters, Private Waters & Lodges

In our travels, The Inside Angler has found guides, outfitters, operators of private waters and lodge owners who offer reliable and friendly services, excellent fishing and comfortable accommodations. More importantly, our subscribers found that they were satisfied with them as well. The Inside Angler recommends these people and their businesses. To learn more about them, refer to the report in the copy of The Inside Angler in which they were mentioned. Order back issues from the Back Issues Form.

In the profiles below, click on the "Featured Page" fish button or the photo for more pictures and information.

More and more, subscribers want us to suggest itineraries for them. We are glad to do this if we are given the parameters. We need to know the length of the trip, whether the preference is for fishing streams or stillwaters or both, if guides are needed, cost restraints and any other personal needs.

The cost of generating an itinerary depends on the time needed to research the possiblities and the amount of personal consultation. Rates begin at $150 for a week's trip with multiple locations. The information contains waters where to fish, when to fish, places to stay and choices of accommodations.

In our travels, The Inside Angler has found guides, outfitters, operators of private waters and lodge owners who offer reliable and friendly services, excellent fishing and comfortable accommodations. More importantly, our subscribers found that they were satisfied with them as well. The Inside Angler recommends these people and their businesses. To learn more about them, refer to the report in the copy of The Inside Angler in which they were mentioned. Order back issues from the Back Issues Form. In the profiles below, click on the "Featured Page" fish button or the photo for more pictures and information. More and more, subscribers want us to suggest itineraries for them. We are glad to do this if we are given the parameters. We need to know the length of the trip, whether the preference is for fishing streams or stillwaters or both, if guides are needed, cost restraints and any other personal needs. The cost of generating an itinerary depends on the time needed to research the possiblities and the amount of personal consultation. Rates begin at $150 for a week's trip with multiple locations. The information contains waters where to fish, when to fish, places to stay and choices of accommodations.

	CALIFORNIA The Old Lewiston Inn, 800/286-4441, PO Box 688, Deadwood Road, Lewiston, CA 96052 When we fish the Trinity River, we often choose to stay at the Old Lewiston Inn, a B&B catering to anglers. The Inn is ideally located on the stream just a short distance upstream of the Old Lewiston Bridge in the Catch-and-Release stretch of the river. Besides the upper river, guests staying at the Inn are short driving distances to Lewiston Lake, Grass Valley Lake, the Trinity River by Douglas City and many trout filled waters in the surrounding mountains.

	CALIFORNIA Sugar Creek Ranch, Mike and Kal Kalpin, 9926 S. Highway 3, PO Box 1531, Callahan, CA 96014, (530/467-5213), FAX (530/467-5285) Sugar Creek Ranch is in northern California about thirty miles due west of Mount Shasta. We have found the fishing challenging and the trout in the best condition of any managed fishery we have visited. With stealth and careful presentation, it is possible to catch a rainbow larger than ten pounds on a dry fly. Our report on Sugar Creek Ranch appeared in VOL. VI, #6, November 1997. e-mail: mike@sugarcreekranch.com web site: http://www.sugarcreekranch.com

	CALIFORNIA Captain Brian A. "Bud" Wilson, Marin Islands Angling Adventures, 225 Nova Albion Way #15, San Rafael, CA 94903, (415/491-1447) Captain Brian A. "Bud" Wilson of Marin Islands Angling Adventures has a passion for striped bass. Chris and I got a first-hand taste of this enthusiasm on San Francisco Bay and we reported on our experience in Volume X, Number 1, January 2001. Captain Wilson is based at Western Boat and Tackle in San Rafael, where he keeps his boat. From here, it is just a short ride to the most productive flyfishing spots in the Bay. e-mail: capt-bud@pacbell.net web site: http://www.westernboatshop.com/

	IDAHO Henry's Fork Lodge, HC 66, Box 600, Island Park, ID 83429, 208/ 558-7953, fax 208/558-7956 (during fishing season) 465 California St., #800, San Francisco, CA 94104, 415/434-1657, fax 415/392-1268 (in the off-season) One of the finest wild trout streams in the West is the Henry's Fork of the Snake River below Island Park Reservoir in Idaho. As the Henry's Fork flows through Harriman State Park and downstream, it is mainly renown for its dry fly fishing for big, selective rainbows. Sitting on a promontory overlooking the river about three miles downstream of the Osborn Bridge is the Henry's Fork Lodge. The Inside Angler reported on Henry's Fork Lodge in Volume II, Number 6, November 15, 1993.
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