Shasta Lake is kicking out some fantastic dinner plate rainbow trout. On my last trip, my guys took home, 10 beautiful drag ripping, fat rainbow trout, as well as few brown trout. We caught all these fish while trolling around the lake at 3 mph plus. The hot lure of day was the optimizer jr lathered in procure threadfin shad gel....
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Take your pic Bass,  Kokanee, Brown or Rainbow Trout they are all biting.  I have been fishing Shasta, Siskiyou and Whiskeytown the last couple weeks and my clients have been catching some beautiful hard fighting and tasty fish. Sure, I could into detail about how we caught them, bait depth lure speed and so forth, but in the end, it is my job to do...
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Fishing this past Tuesday at Whiskeytown for Kokanee was excellent. We had steady action and ended up hooking well over 20 nice fat drag ripping Kokanee. We ended up putting 14 keepers in the box. The biggest was 17 inches and almost 2 pounds, it tipped scale at 1.8 pounds.  Kokanee fishing will only get better as we head into summer. If you...
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Over the years, I have often let the pictures from my trips speak for themselves . Lake Siskiyou pictures have been the main reason for the above statement. Simply put, if the fish and scenery pictures don't make you want to come and have a day on this fishery with me, then nothing will. Checkout the pictures and give me a call 530...
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Fishing reports are important, and fishing changes year after year to a point, but right now the last 20 days fishing at McCloud, Shasta, Siskiyou and Whiskeytown are historically what they should be this time of year and far from a bad choice.  All 4  of these bodies of water are kicking out great fish and not one is a bad choice. All the...
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You cannot catch fish, if you do not get out, and put your line in the water, then put the time in. Fishing for Brown and Rainbow Trout at Shasta and Sisikyou Lakes the past 10 days has been good to great. We had that crazy lunar event going on recently and that stuff has not really had much effect on my fishing trips...
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