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Healthy sandhill cranes have nothing to fear from coyotes when they can simply jump into the sky. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

Healthy sandhill cranes have nothing to fear from coyotes when they can simply jump into the sky. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

Collins Lake Fish Repot 05-21-2007
by Collins Lake Staff, MAY 21, 2007
Collins Lake

Lee Refsland entered the Collins Lake Derby each camping day he was here and on the 2nd day he caught a monster Trout that topped the 50/50 Derby List for the week and he won 1/2 the pot. His wife Gerri needs some mention too, she netted it for him!! Bill Thurman pulled in a 6 pounder from the shoreline...
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Trinity Lake Fish Report 05-20-07
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MAY 20, 2007
Trinity Lake

Trinity Lake is 29 ft. below the over flow and 82 % of capacity. Average inflow to the lake for the week is 2,184cfs. 249cfs are being released to the Sacramento River through the Clear Creek tunnel. Water releases into the Trinity River @ Lewiston flows are 2,340cfs & water temperatures are 47.6 degrees with air temps of 58 degrees...
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Trinity special bulletin
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MAY 20, 2007
Trinity Lake

A friend of mine, Lee Hover, that lives down river from me, about 5-miles, called me to let me know that we have so many Salmon in the river that "it is raining Salmon down at his house". I asked, "are you serious?" and he started to laugh! Lee was laughing so hard that it took a few minutes for...
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Collins Lake Fish Repot 05-14-2007
by Collins Lake Staff, MAY 14, 2007
Collins Lake

Thomas Hughes from Windsor had the "Luck of the Irish" on Saturday when he first reeled in an 8 lb.12 oz. Rainbow Trout then topped that off with a whopping 11 lb. 13 oz. Rainbow. Thomas used a Needlefish and trolled 25 feet down near the power lines. Here's the best part of this story-he purchased a Collins Lake 50/50...
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Trinity River fish report 05-13-2007
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MAY 13, 2007
Trinity River

A day and a half trip aboard the new Intrepid and skipper Danny Nichols showed me and 23 other anglers aboard an awful lot of albacore. That good news was offset a bit by the lack of willing biters. We fished from dawn to dusk, and caught fish at all times of the day, but never very many at once....
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Collins Lake Fish Repot 05-08-2007
by Collins Lake Staff, MAY 8, 2007
Collins Lake

As promised we received another double plant of trophy Rainbows last week and very few people left without fish. Dean Clark went out in a blaze of glory with a whopping 8 lb. 4 oz. Rainbow caught trolling on an Apex lure under the power lines. In recent days it appears that Powerbait has picked up the pace in the...
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