American River Report 6-1-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 413 Floated with Earle again today. We had a mid-morning start and it was the busiest I’ve seen the upper river so far this run with boats and wading/bank anglers everywhere. We hung back and waited until things cleared up a little. By noon most of the […]
American River Report 5-29-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run total: 367 Solo float today. There were 3 other boats and a raft and only one bankie. The boats were all local guides: Jon Hubbard, Andy Guibord and Jeff Morin. They all did well nymphing. Meanwhile I struggled swinging. I only got 8 all on the Blue Hawaii. I […]
American River Report 5-28-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 359 Another solo float today. Three other boats, all guides (Toby. Brandon and Jefe). There were only a couple of bankies and a handful of waders. Fishing was dead slow but I got into double digits swinging Cherry Bombs, olive Rain Drops and a Blue Hawaii (a new […]
American River Report 5-26-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 319 Floated again with Earle and we started mid-morning. There were a lot of boats and bankies up top. We slipped down below the fleet which stayed up top and found a productive run. I put on a Bloody Maria because it seemed like I was in a […]
American River Report 5-25-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 302 Today was a better day. Earle and I got out mid-morning and there were a lot of boats downriver below us. There were peolple fishing everywhere. We hung out up high until the fleet left. we found Earle’s 35 lb Tornado anchor and he almost went overboard […]
American River Report 5-24-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 297 Very slow day for me today. Floated with Earle, and we lost his anchor an hour and a half into the float, so it was cut short. We had gotten a handful of indicator fishing. There were 3 drift boats and a raft. Andrew Foster was one […]
American River Report 5-22-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 281 Solo float in the mini again today. There were lots of bankies and waders today and 5 other drift boats (which included Jon Hubbard, Andrew Foster and Jeff Morin). With the lower flow swinging was rough. Everyone using an indicator fared a little better than me. Charlie […]
American River Report 5-21-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 266 Another solo float today. There were 5 other boats (Bill Quinn, Andy Guibord, Ethan Hunt, Gregg Hogg and Andrew Foster). The flow dropped again to 2000 cfs so swinging was tough. I stuck with swinging but changed up my gear (25 ft of T-8 and 10 ft […]
American River Report 5-20-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 245 Another solo float in the mini. There were four other drift boats (2 were Ethan Hunt and Bill Quinn). The flows dropped to 2500 cfs and made swinging tough, but I stuck with swinging 20 ft of LC-13. It was steady all morning, but the bite shut […]
American River Report 5-19-26
Jeff Ching Daily Shad Report Run Total: 210 Solo float in the mini today. 3 other boats which included Happy Nguyen annd Andrew Foster. The wind was still blowing and gusty but compared to yesterday it was like it was glassy. The shad were scattered with no buckets. When I got into the mid-teens 5 […]
