Today we fished Whiskeytown Lake for Kokanee salmon.  Overall the bite was slow and we ended the day with 7 of 11 Kokanee hooked.  Our biggest fish was 16" inches, but Im sure we lost a few that were a tad bigger.  The surface temps are in the low 60's now, but when the lake stops filling with cold Lewiston...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and were targeting rainbow trout in the wind and rain.  It was on and off as far as the rain goes, but the bite remained pretty consistent.  The bass were very active and getting spoons down past them to the trout was difficult at times. Water temps in Shasta are up around the mid 60's...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and found a great morning bite!  All quality rainbows and browns.  Clear skies and no chop on the water made for a slower late morning, but the day ended with limits of trout for my clients.  Its getting hot out on the water, but when your fighting big trout, who cares!  Surface temps on Shasta...
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Today I fished Shasta Lake with Adam and Dick again for a second day of good trout fishing and great company.  Yesterdays brown bite was slow for us so we planned to get on some rainbows early and finish the day looking for some bigger fish.  We caught both quality browns and rainbows, so as expected, the day was considered...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and were targeting big trout early while trolling fast with Optimizer spoons behind a side planer and Trinidad Tackle Eco line weights.  We started off with a rainbow takedown before we got the second rod in the water.  We caught some more rainbows before the bite stalled for a while.  We changed locations and hit some...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake.  We started the day trolling optimizer spoons and got a nice brown on our second pass which Don released after a few pics.  After that, things slowed down until we switched over to smaller gear and reduced our trolling speed.  Wasn't long before we were watching the rods go down with some savage bites.  We...
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