Fresh fish & fresh asparagus for dinner tonight! Another great day on the pond! If it had red/gold/yellow it was hammered at 5-12 ft deep today. Had to drop it down just a tad by 8am ...7-8ft was my ticket. Released 4, missed countless strikes. Not monsters but 2 1/2-3lb. Good eats!!

Shad fishing is beginning to take shape on the Sacramento River as evidenced by this outstanding fish caught on the fly by Summer Moore of Redding.  Most of the action is currently in the Colusa and Glenn county area as the shad make the move upstream to spawn.  While I yet to fish for shad I am told the fishing is...
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The Halibut bite is on in San Francisco Bay. On what was a planned family and friends rock fishing charter on the Sea Wolf out of Emeryville Marina, the gratefully amended trip onto San Francisco Bay produced great results. Last year, on the Friday before Memorial Day we enjoyed relatively calm seas rock fishing around the Farallon Islands, scoring easy limits...
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Now that the Trinity River water releases are back on schedule, we saw high water flows in the Willow Creek area of Big Rock and Kimtu Beach. (5,475cfs) This was not the best water flows for a Memorial Day Weekend but with the light showers we didn’t see a large turnout on the river. Instead there was a fare showing...
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California’s salmon and trout have persisted to survive in spite of significant challenges both past and present, highlighting that they are remarkably adaptable creatures. The recent 37th annual Salmonid Restoration Conference hosted by the Salmon Restoration Federation, in Santa Rosa, California, centered around the question of “California Drought, Fire, and Floods – Can Salmon and the Restoration Field Adapt?.” The conference...
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With Summer not yet here and the Lake front empty, we’re going back to Spring hours until we get boats on the Lake. Store Hours:    Sunday thru Saturday – 8:00am to 6:00pm Café Hours:      Sunday thru Saturday – 8:00am to 4:00pm – CLOSED WEDNESDAYS   We sure were hoping to have boats on the water for Memorial Weekend, but alas, with the continuing snow...
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