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Winter on the Upper Klamath River, Siskiyou County
Anglers drift-fish this river daily in fall and winter often in widely fluctuating weather.


 


Late Fall Salmon Concerns
by Michael Coats, JANUARY 17, 2014
Sacramento River

San Francisco - As the Brown administration declared a drought state of emergency in California, the Coleman national fish hatchery plans to release another 73,000 baby salmon next week to almost certain death in the drought-stricken Sacramento River. The planned release follows releases of almost 750,000 baby salmon over the last five weeks ignoring warnings from salmon advocates...
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Collins Lake Fish Report
by Collins Lake Staff, JANUARY 13, 2014
Collins Lake

Any day now we will get a double trout plant of (larger than normal) sized trout from Fish & Game. The lake is still at it's winter low so catching these fish will be a breeze!! You may have to walk a little farther but we'll make sure it's worth it and the weather is expected to be close to 70 degrees for a...
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Collins Lake Fish Report
by Collins Lake Staff, DECEMBER 29, 2013
Collins Lake

Leave the long Johns at home, it's warming up this week! These beautiful sunny days have brought a lot of people out this week and some of the fish being caught are huge!! *Dino Tribuzi* was shore fishing with rainbow PowerBait when he hooked a gigantic */14 lb. 3 oz. Catfish/*, now that was a nice surprise! *Sumerlyn Whicker* caught 3 nice Rainbows, her biggest...
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Limits of trout are being caught at Collins Lake so get out your cold weather gear
by Collins Lake Staff, DECEMBER 14, 2013
Collins Lake

It's really chilly here at Collins Lake so get out your warm woolies along with your fishing gear! Limits of trout continue to be caught, they actually Love..... the cold weather. Sydney Foster, pictured above from Live Oak & her Dad trolled near the island a couple of days ago and she caught her limit of trout while trolling with...
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Collins Lake recently received their 4th Trout plant
by Collins Lake Staff, NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Collins Lake

On Wednesday 11/13 we got another 1,800 lbs. of fish, some of them were trophy size!! This makes our 4th plant this fall between private plants and F&G plants and that's not all folks!! We ordered you up another private plant next week and F&G is bringing another 2,000 lbs. sometime in the next couple of weeks. If turkey is...
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November fishing at Collins Lake starts off with a BANG!!
by Collins Lake Staff, NOVEMBER 7, 2013
Collins Lake

Kevin Severson & Chris Peek take two limits of trout by the dam on Powerbait of Powerworms and Kevin's big one, pictured above weighed 4 lbs. 4 oz. Local gal, Nancie Greene, Photo #1 was fishing near the bridge for bass using a crawdad lure and hooked a 5 lb. 4 oz. Rainbow trout. On Nov. 2nd Bertoni Delong of...
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