Welcome to the new Reel Adventures Website & Blog
I have been a northern CA native my entire life. Growing up a few miles from Folsom Lake, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains... then living a quarter of my life in Mammoth Lakes, in the high desert region of the Eastern Sierra where I began my fishing guiding career... and finally, currently residing in Redding, minutes from the Sacramento River, with my wife and daughter. In short I have been a fishing guide for over 21 years and during that time I have been fortunate to have lived in three distinct parts of California and three of the very best regions in our great State for an angler to live or visit.
In my 2 decades of guiding fly fishing trips and over 4 decades of fishing in CA I have seen a lot. I have experienced some incredible angling opportunities in one of the most diverse and varied landscapes in the lower 48 States.
To say California offers up a wide array of wild fish species and diverse habitats is an understatement...
California has up to 32 native species of trout, steelhead and salmon. More than any other State in our country. From the Pacific Ocean where sea-level fresh, bright steelhead & salmon pulse up from the sea... to inland valley rivers with an abundance of trout, steelhead and salmon... to our high-altitude mountain regions where glacial carved valleys and basins above tree-line contain gin clear lakes full of golden trout among other trout species. California is a wonderland of diverse fisheries and equally diverse angling opportunities.
If you have landed on this page hopefully you have also visited my new website - www.ReelAdventuresGuideService.com - This is my 3rd website in my career as a professional fishing guide. I've written a Blog as well (since 2005) back when Blogs were sort of the segue to the modern social media platforms we have now.
The new Blog will hopefully be transformative and evolve into something more value based for readers as we move forward. My goal is to get away from the standard guide fish reports and grip and grin photo posts that became sorta the go-to content in the past.
Out with the old and in with the new...
As a career long fishing guide, I am honored to have introduced a fair number of new anglers to the sport. I am further honored to have played a small role in "stoking the fire" and learning that many of my clients have experienced life altering moments while discovering a passion for fishing, the outdoors and the wild places we go to seek these adventures. If the trajectory of their lives is much like mine - then we have been blessed with the discovery bug… aka: the next bend syndrome or the “last cast” lie. We live in a fishing paradise and there are limitless opportunities to pursue fishing adventures every month of the calendar in our great State.
So, if I have had an impact bringing more people into the sport while teaching anglers how to be better at catching fish along with exposing many of California's amazing fisheries - then I equally bare the responsibility to promote the conservation of these amazing places and put equal energy into developing advocates as much as I have anglers.
I hope to offer more value-based content for this Blog in future posts. I'd love to hear if there are any topics that you would like to read about? Maybe highlight a few new knots I've been using, deep dive into fly fishing techniques and strategies for our local waters? Maybe an article on how-to be the perfect fishing client - or a reverse observation on a client's worse guide trip ever... a message to us all. LOL.
More importantly, I'd like to provide a platform for sharing critical information on conservation issues, videos, and call to action posts that are important to all of us as anglers, environmentalists and conservationists. The wild places, clean air & cold water and the fishes we love and cherish need our stewardship in order to continue to flourish into our future.
