The 2022 Sacramento River King salmon fishing season is set and its forecasted to be the best we’ve seen in 10 years! Lower flows in the Sacramento River will be the result of water conservation but that just means our salmon will be concentrated in the areas we typically fish each year. The up river salmon fishery will be where its at and we’ll be there all season long! The season opener below Red Bluff will be on July 16th. Above Red Bluff will open again this year on August 1st. The daily bag limit will be (2) King salmon per person of any size and the possession limit will be (4) per person for our two day trip clients. This won’t be the season to pass on as it doesn’t appear it will get any better for King salmon fishing in the foreseeable future. I believe this will be a great summer/fall season.

We will have an extended King salmon season again this year above Red Bluff. In mid November we start to see our run of late fall King salmon arriving in the Anderson area. The late fall salmon fishery is a special one and many of our biggest Kings of the year are caught in the month of December before the salmon season closes on January 1st, 2023. The late fall Kings migrate quickly up river and are most often our freshest salmon of the year. Its a smaller run than the fall run, but there are always opportunities to catch them during our peak season between Thanksgiving and the new year. The late fall trips can be during cold/wet periods but we do what we can to keep everyone as warm and dry as possible during your trip. I’m excited about the 2022 King salmon season and I’ll be looking forward to seeing our salmon fishing clients again this year!