Tom Stienstra

For over 30 years, Tom Stienstra’s full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California – fishing, hiking, camping, boating, biking, and flying – searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it.

Tom is the nation’s top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. His documentary on the Tuolumne River received an Emmy in 2017. He has been inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle; his articles appear on sfgate.com and in newspapers around the country. He also broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco.

Tom lives in Northern California. You can contact him directly via the website tomstienstra.com.

Inaugural Youth Fishing Day

Tom Stienstra is on a mission—to get kids outside! The first ever Youth Fishing Day at Lake Siskiyou is on Saturday, May 25, 2019.

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The event will be highlighted by loaner rods, free bait, two trout plants by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the release of trophy-size fish from the Mt. Shasta Rotary trout pens. The 100 early registrants with the Boys and Girls Club of the Siskiyous, Boy Scout Troop 97 and Girl Scout Troop 74, will receive the new 21st edition of Moon California Camping from Avalon Travel Books.

Special thanks to:

Mt. Shasta Rotary Foundation, Kokanee Power, Nor Cal Guides Association, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Steve Brown, Lake Siskiyou Resort, MyOutdoorbuddy.com, Sheriff Lopey Foundation, Siskiyou Board of Supervisors, Campbell Global, Shasta Trinity Flyfishers, Siskiyou Flyfishers, Gary Bechtel, Nor Cal Jr. Bass Club, Sousa Ready Mix, Mark Foster, Yreka Rotary, NRVP Volunteers, Dunsmuir Rotary, Boy Scouts Troop 97, Girl Scouts Troop 74, Siskiyou Boys & Girls Club.

Find out more about his initiative to help kids and their families "catch a fish of a lifetime."