Fishing Articles

This week we are getting a double private trout plant. Next week will be a triple plant by Thanksgiving, which will be the end of the plants this year. This Thursday we will be filling our trout net pens with little fingerlings that we feed until the spring when we start releasing them when they reach approx. 2 lbs. in...
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Last week's storms brought some of our first significant rainfall totals to the foot hills and valley here in the Redding area. Rainfall is always welcomed this time of the year, especially with 4 years of drought that is still haunting the region. Local lakes have seen level increases and tributaries continue to provide a slow, but steady, amount of...
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Fall Trout Planting began last week and we will be planted every week from now until Thanksgiving. Some of those are private plants with the bigger trout and some are from Fish & Game, usually more pan sized on those! Cody Ortiz from Colfax caught the first fall limit of trout recorded with us and he was fishing off...
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They say your first is always special and yesterday's experience catching my first adult steelhead on the Trinity River with Todd LeBoeuf, Tiger T's Guide Service, was not only special, but a trip for the memory books. And what a steelhead it was, call it beginners luck or first timer's ignorance, but Todd put me onto a 32 inch, 11...
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These past two weeks produced some really great fish! The next few weeks should be even better since our Fall Trout Planting Program should start real soon, watch for updates on the webpage. Scott Schroeder hooked a gorgeous 5 lb. Rainbow Trout between the boat dock and the beach using rainbow PowerBait. Patty & Ron brought in a 3 lb....
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