Today we fished Shasta Lake again.  We started out looking for some big fish and after hitting some of my high percentage areas, We managed to go 2 for 2 on some nice browns.  Dwight and Will elected to try for some smaller fish after catching and releasing the browns.  We called it a day after landing 7 nice 16"-18" rainbows for...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and were, once again, hunting for big browns and rainbows.  We found a little of both and managed to lose some big fish as well, but thats fishing.  The browns are still holding on structure and will likely continue to do so for the remainder of the year until fall.  Optimizer spoons continue to draw...
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Today we fished for rainbow trout and had a good bite early, but it slowed down and it stayed that way all afternoon.  We still came in with some nice fish for the bbq and had a great time getting them to the net!  Once we get some stable weather and start moving some water, fishing will be very good again!...
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Redding Area Lake Fishing I've made a lot of changes to my fishing style in recent years, especially when fishing the lakes here in the Redding area.  I've spent the majority of my adult life fishing and guiding for salmon and steelhead in both the Washington and California river systems.  With uncertain times in the fishing industry, fishing guides have to...
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We fished Shasta Lake this weekend and had a pretty good bite going, both days.  We averaged two browns per angler and caught a good number of rainbows on top of the browns.  There seems to be a new trend of some smaller browns holding where the big boys were a week or two ago.  That tells me the big...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake for browns and rainbows.  Todays clients hooked 7 browns, but we only manages to get two to the net.  5 rainbows, but nothing real big today.  Should have been another epic day hooking browns on Optimizers, but days like today happen sometimes.  I'm fishing through the weekend so stay tuned for more reports! ...
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