Sugar Creek Ranch, California

Sugar Creek Ranch is located in the beautiful northern California mountians just south of the Oregon border. This ranch of over 150 acres has been producing incredibly large, trophy rainbow trout, that are naturally reproducing in all of their 7 small lakes.

Each of the small lakes have thriving populations of brown dace minnows, suckers, sculpin, crawdads and leeches. All of these are food forms for the trout all year long. In addition, from April through early June the little rainbows that hatched during the winter are a major food source as well for these aggressive trout. Obviously, when it comes to fishing for these fish during these months, imitations of these food sources will certainly provide plenty of action throughout the day. As the season moves into spring, the trout will feed more regularly on the surface. Midge hatches will begin in February or even earlier if it is a mild winter. As the season progresses, other hatches will occur as well, including caddis, damsel BWO. Terrestrial imitations take lots of fish during the summer months as well since there are an abundance of ants, hoppers, crickets and beetles in the grass along the banks.

All in all, this is one of the best locations to go and target large rainbow trout. The ranch also has a small lodge where 3 bedrooms can accommodate up to 6 anglers and food service is also available. One of the nice options of this destination, is that you can choose either to be guided by one of the owners of the ranch or their guides, or you can get some last minute tips and head to the lakes to fend for yourself.

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