Fishing at French Creek Sportsmen’s Club will primarily occur on the Brush Creek Ranch-owned, 16,000 acre Sanger Ranch, which has a variety of terrain. Your cabin sits at the bottom of a valley, in a grove of cottonwood trees on the edge of a hay meadow just feet away from the banks of French Creek, a major tributary of the North Platte. This steep, narrow creek is home to some truly amazing wild trout, but the conditions can be challenging. Steep grade, quick moving water, slick rocks, and a host of trees can present challenges for even the most skilled angler. The rewards are often worth the efforts.

Three miles downstream from your cabin, French Creek intersects with the North Platte River, a much larger moving body of water. The grade on the Platte isn’t as steep and the wading isn’t nearly as challenging, but the flows can be much larger. The banks of the North Platte through Sanger are often lined with rolling hay fields, willows, and cottonwood trees. As the Platte leaves the wide meandering hay fields of Sanger, it enters steep pine tree- covered canyons with dramatic rock formations lining each rim.

Fishing French Creek is accessible by foot, otherwise we primarily use Polaris Rangers or SUVs to get around the Ranch. Most drives are 5-10 minutes from your cabin. Early season fishing — May through June— can bring cold mornings and unpredictable weather, however the bulk of the days are often warm and sunny. July and August are by far our hottest months with daily temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s with very little precipitation. September and October bring colder weather back to the valley with evenings and mornings sometimes being near freezing with the weather warming to the 60’s and 70’s by the afternoon. Sanger Ranch sits right at the base of the Snowy Range where steep mountain hillsides lined with conference forests slowly transition into lush river basins and riparian zones, which give way to aired rolling hills of sagebrush.