John Rickard on the McCloud

John Rickard on The McCloud River

Our speaker for the April 8 meeting is John Rickard. Remember this will be our first virtual meeting.

The McCloud River is home of the most famous rainbow trout in the world and the brown trout that eat them. The McCloud River has delighted and frustrated GPFF members year after year. See any of Kirston’s articles in past issues of the November Irideus. John is uniquely qualified to help us discover the secrets of fishing the McCloud successfully.

Biography: John Rickard and Chuck Volckhausen are partners in Wild Waters Fly Fishing. Wild Waters, based in Mt. Shasta, received the Orvis Outfitter of the Year award in 2018. Wild Waters is a four season guide service that guides anglers on all the local rivers in Northern California and Southern Oregon from the Lower Sacramento and Trinity north to the North Umpqua River including coastal rivers during steelhead season. John lives in Mt. Shasta and has guided the area for 25 years.

John knows and fishes the McCloud River close to 100 days a year during its season and is considered one of the top guides in the industry on the McCloud. He also has a vast knowledge of the history of this fabled river. His second passion is photography and he has produced a wonderful photo essay of the McCloud entitled The McCloud River.