We’ve got boats on the water, more fish in the Lake and the Aspen are quaking with the growth of new leaves, the CrabApple is starting to bloom and the first StrawBerry-Rhubarb Pie hit the oven. The creeks are ripping so be extra careful when fishing that flowing water. Southern California Edison finished the work on the Dam (icebergs up...
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Saturday's Free Kids Fishing Day at the Mt Shasta Fish Hatchery was a  glowing success with full stringers and smiling faces for all the young anglers.  The CDFW provided a great setting in the shadow of Mt Shasta with the ponds filled with willing and hungry rainbow trout. Some of the trout  in the ponds were pushing over 10 pounds,...
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Coho salmon (Onchorynchus kisutch) may be the overshadowed cousin of “king” Chinook in California, but are certainly deserving of some time in the spotlight. Like Chinook, coho face an array of challenges in the form of habitat loss and human-caused changes to their home rivers. However, unlike Chinook, which have had their populations boosted by billions of hatchery-produced fish, coho have not been...
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64.5F surface temp. East side pretty clean today. Stay tuned. Continued update from west side & middle when I get there! 61-63F west side. Big drift of algae several hundred yards from shore. Pretty clean around it and inside. Fishing very good on orange off Lake of the woods 5-20ft of water at the moment. Some grunge at Wildcat Pt...
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64.5F surface temp. East side pretty clean today. Stay tuned. Continued update from west side & middle when I get there! 61-63F west side. Big drift of algae several hundred yards from shore. Pretty clean around it and inside. Fishing very good on orange off Lake of the woods 5-20ft of water at the moment. Some grunge at Wildcat Pt...
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The temperature isn’t the only thing heating up on the North Coast. The salmon bite out of Eureka and Trinidad sizzled this week. Tuesday was good, but it went wide-open on Wednesday. The Eureka charters had full limits by 10 a.m. and the Trinidad boats did equally as well, if not better. And for the first time since the season...
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