Fly Fishing the Feather River

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Michael M. Noble. Fly Fishing the Feather River

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Feather River (Northern California)

Location: Northern California, about 3½ hours from San Jose, 3 hours from San Francisco, and 1½ hours from Sacramento.

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dam in the U.S., at 6,920 feet across and 770 feet high. Over 80 million yards of old mine tailings were used to build it. The Feather River flows from Oroville to the confluence in Verona, where it enters the Sacramento River. Fish entering the system from the Pacific Ocean pass under the Golden Gate Bridge and through San Francisco Bay.

The Feather River hatchery, completed in 1967, was designed to produce salmon and steelhead due to the huge habitat losses above Oroville Dam. It can accommodate 9,000 adult salmon and 3,000 steelhead. Its incubators can hold 20 million eggs, and its 8 concrete raceways can hold 9.6 million fingerlings.

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