Fishing Articles

Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, DECEMBER 31, 2016
Collins Lake

Kudos to Travis Marshall of Pilot Hill for his great catch, an 8 lb. 8 oz. Rainbow Trout.....from shore even at the boat dock using a worm!! Jim Pack of Marysville was quite happy with his 2 lb. 8 oz. trout which he caught off the beach on PowerBait. Travis Marshall and Rich and Brian hooked five trout total as a...
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Eagle Lake trout on ice!
by Valerie Aubrey, DECEMBER 28, 2016
Eagle Lake

Valerie Aubrey checked in from with an Eagle Lake update. The Season is almost over! Ramp is icy but folks are launching! A1 passable, but take it slow down the icy grade. Some skim ice here and there and ice below Pelican Pt. Surface temp 39-40F. Low ambient temp this AM +8F, highs low to mid 40's last 2days....
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ODFW Weekly Recreational Report
by ODFW, DECEMBER 28, 2016

Celebrate the New Year with free fishing Dec. 31-Jan. 1 Make a New Year’s resolution to fish more in 2017. ODFW will get you off to a good start with a free fishing weekend on Saturday, Dec. 31 and Sunday, Jan. 1. On those two days you won’t need a license, tag or endorsement to fish anywhere in Oregon. Check out...
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GGSA: Support Salmon and save on taxes
by GGSA Staff, DECEMBER 27, 2016
San Francisco Bay

If you caught a salmon in 2016, you can thank GGSA. Others helped, but we almost certainly would not have had an ocean fishing season last year without the extra trucking of hatchery fish GGSA convinced the hatcheries to do in 2014. We know it wasn't a great season for many, but at least we fished! Same goes for this coming year, 2017, where again...
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Sacramento River steelhead get Shasta water
by Jeff Goodwin, DECEMBER 27, 2016
Sacramento River - Lower

The Sacramento River is receiving a boost of water releases from Keswick Dam this week, presumably because of the amount of rainfall the region has received since October. As Shasta Lake reaches 45' feet below full pool, water managers began to release 10,000 cfs on the 21st from 5,000 cfs which has essentially taken the flows back to the summer...
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Water, will we have enough for fish?
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, DECEMBER 24, 2016
Trinity River

This is the day before Christmas and winter steelhead are coming up the river. I hope everyone has a good Christmas. Do you hear that big swoooosh? That’s the water rushing down south. Last week Obama signed the finance bill which Senator Feinstein attached the water bill and the controversial rider to. About the same time, the courts ruled that Governor...
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