Fly Fishing Guide Lands 27″ Upper Sacramento Brown Trout (Yes, There Are Big Fish Here)

While fly fishing the Upper Sacramento River in winter can be a humbling experience, local fly fishing guide Wayne proved it’s sometimes worth it.

On Tuesday, he landed a 27″ Brown trout on the upper half of the river, and managed to snap a couple photos of what some would consider the Brown Trout of a Lifetime.

He was fishing a #2 black woolly bugger (a streamer type fly) just as the river was starting to come up (due to rain and snow melt). With the rising waters stirring up the fish, that’s not a bad time to fish a big streamer and see what’s biting.

In this case, what was biting was plenty big enough.