Fishing Articles

Shasta County gets some Plants
by Mike Mogler, APRIL 13, 2016
Grace Lake

Grace, Nora and Lake McCumber were planted by CDFW on 04-12-16 with trout from the Darrah Springs Hatchery. These fish, as in the past are 10”-12” triploid rainbows. CDFW will have more plantings schedule in prior to the opening of the general trout opener Saturday, April 30 and will continue throughout the summer. Fishing pressure is very light preceding now the...
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Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, APRIL 8, 2016
Collins Lake

What a great week of fishing we had, which included 4 trout plants as well. The biggest Rainbow (6 lb. 12 oz.) was caught by Darin Ruth of Newcastle who trolled a Rapala Lure near the sand beach. The biggest Catfish was caught by Kristen Dukes of Marysville and her whopper weighed 11 pounds!! She was fishing the east...
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Downers
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 31, 2016
Smith River

The Smith is holding right around nine feet on the Jed smith gauge and the fishing has remained pretty good this past week reports guide Mike Coopman. He said, “The river has been holding its color pretty well, likely from the snowmelt. There isn’t much fishing pressure left, but there’s plenty of fish around to make a good day. Almost...
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Blown Out
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 31, 2016
Eel River

The main stem remains blown out, currently running at just under 10,000 cfs as of Wednesday. According to Paul Grundman of Rio Dell's Grundmans Sporting Goods, it will be another week to 10 days before it’s fishable.

Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, MARCH 25, 2016
Collins Lake

Full lake + Sunny weather + Double trout plants weekly= time to go camping and fishing at Collins Lake!!! Two local day fishermen from Dobbins each caught a 5 pound trout on rainbow Powerbait off the beach, Tony & Carol Cabral is the cute couple! Pam Lassiter of Carmichael brought her granddaughter Alexis for the day and they caught a...
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No Jokes Just Kokes
by Mike Mogler, MARCH 24, 2016
Whiskeytown Lake

Kayak fishing Whiskeytown Lake and targeting kokanee panned out with a limit of kokanee. My previous attempts left me empty handed and a dry net. Putting-in at Whiskey Creek using white corn, a Shasta Tackle Sling Blade, one oz banana weight and a small hoochie was very productive. Although this time of year the fish are generally small. I was...
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