Hippocleides Doesn't Care

Cold. Wet. Rainy. Foggy. Cloudy. Cold. Drove up Wednesday. Tried fishing some of the very small creeks around our campsite. No luck. Built a roaring fire to fend off the wet cold. Bundled up and spent the night shivering in our tent. 30 degrees. Ice on the ground in the morning. No fishing? Colder than [...]

Tags: Auburn, California, Cascades, Grass Valley, highway 395, highway 89, Lake Almanor, Lake Tahoe, Lake Topaz, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mount Shasta, Nevada, Quincy, Sierra Nevada, Truckee, yum

So last year was the first year of my life where I didn’t go fishing at least once. I didn’t even buy my fishing license. Sigh. Determined to not let this happen again, Yum and I set out yesterday to catch some fish. First we drove up highway 80 to Auburn, where we turned onto [...]

Tags: American River, Auburn, Coloma, fishing, fly fishing, highway 49, highway 50, highway 80, Kyburz, Memorial Day, OHV, Sierras, Silver Fork, Sutter's Mill, trout, US Forest Service, yum