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The spots on a butterfly wing are not random but help identify this as a California tortoiseshell. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

The spots on a butterfly wing are not random but help identify this as a California tortoiseshell. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

Lake Sabrina Fish Report
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, MAY 26, 2014
Lake Sabrina

Another fun week by Mother Nature - what a week it was - snow flurries for 4 days (almost another inch of moisture) - then the cool temps and cloudy skies gave way to warm temps with fluffy white clouds and the bluest of blue skies at the Lake - plenty of families spent the weekend pulling out limits and...
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Lake Sabrina Fish Report
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, MAY 19, 2014
Lake Sabrina

With the cooler temps last week, the amount of water from the snow run-off shut down dramatically, so much so that the Lake level dropped a few inches causing those that got a bit too close to the Lake to break out their shovels. The good news is that we had a few warm days and the Lake gained back...
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Collins Lake Fish Report
by Collins Lake Staff, MAY 16, 2014
Collins Lake

Yesterday we received a /HUGE PRIVATE / *trout plant of 1,800 lbs. * This isn't the last plant of the planting season but it will shortly come to a halt as our lake's surface temperatures continue to rise. Although the trout must retreat soon to the cooler water which is deeper in the channel, there is still plenty of them being caught from shore...
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Lake Sabrina Fish Report
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, MAY 11, 2014
Lake Sabrina

It was a brrrr-cold-windy-snowy Mother's Day Weekend - but for those up at the Lake, it was a fish-feast! Another stocking by DFW on Friday sure helped the cause. The top catching areas were up by the dam and in the channels as that cold windy weather stopped a lot of anglers from trekking to the back natural Lake. The...
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Collins Lake Fish Report
by Collins Lake Staff, MAY 9, 2014
Collins Lake

Holy Guacamole!! This week there were three gigantic fish caught, starting with *_Ken Borello's 20 lb. 4 oz. CATFISH!! _*He caught it on anchovies at night and brought it in for his photo when our store opened up. His netter was his good buddy Vern Harms, both of them are from Grass Valley. Our lake record on Catfish is 24 pounds! On the 6th of...
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Lake Sabrina Fish Report
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, MAY 5, 2014
Lake Sabrina

Our local Department of Fish & Wildlife Hatchery Stocking Crew rock - they were up fishing last Sunday - saw the water had come up enough to get the small stock truck down to the water and come Monday morning we had the first stocking of the season - very much appreciated by both us and those that came up...
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