Leslie Ajari grew up in Truckee, California and was introduced to fly fishing by her father at a very early age.  She and her brother cut their teeth fly fishing the Truckee River, Little Truckee River and local lakes and she hasn't stopped yet.

She guides over 100 trips a year on northern California rivers like the Trinity, Fall, Pit and Hat Creek.  Here true passion lies in spey casting to Fall and Winter Steelhead on the Trinity, Klamath, Deschutes and a bunch of the coastal California and Oregon rivers. Leslie and I got to chat during one of her recent trips home to visit family.  We chatted about Winter Steelheading, Spey Camps on the Klamath River and why she loves to guide new and experienced anglers into the world of spey casting for steelhead.

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I sat down with Kim Tisdale and Travis Hawks, both fishery biologists with NDOW, to discuss the survey results, their take on the 2015 drought and how NDOW adapted their management approach to our western rivers. We even got to discuss how the fishing is going to be this Spring/Summer.