His grandfather introduced him to fly fishing, and 56-year-old Live Oak resident Craig Renke hasn't forgotten a trip to the Yuba River the pair made in the early summer when he was 8 years old.

Salmon fishing is not allowed anywhere on the Yuba River, but catch-and-release steelhead fishing is permitted with proper tags and record keeping. “These fish here are wild,” Rinella said.

Dec. 1 was the “Opening Day” for the Yuba River above the Highway 20 Bridge to Englebright Dam. This section of the river is closed to all fishing during the September through November time frame.

The area is known as Yuba County Levee District 10, which was formed in 1909 to make the floodplain available to farmers. While most orchard growers here don’t directly draw from the river, they ...

Salmon swam the North Yuba River this year for the first time in the better part of a century as part of a multi-agency effort to restore the spring-run Chinook species to its historical spawning ...

Colin Crane-Smith, a volunteer naturalist with South Yuba River Citizens League who was also part of the educational trip down the Yuba River, described how agriculture shaped what the river is today.

The Yuba River’s flow farther downstream of the dam, near Marysville where it feeds into the Feather River, is also affected by the Middle and South Yuba rivers, which feed into the river’s ...

NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. — The South Yuba River is yellow -- yes, yellow -- in Nevada County, prompting officials to issue a no-swim advisory Friday for the waterway. >> Download the KCRA 3 app ...