Today we fished Shasta Lake and found a semi lackluster bite this morning for the smaller hatchery plants.  We caught several, but the action was a lot slower than it has been in weeks.  We pulled the plug early on the smaller rainbows and Put on the Optimizers.  We pointed the bow of the Willie boat down the arm and cranked...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake with finding a few big browns and then getting some limits of planter size reainbows for my clients to take home.  Mission accomplished!  Fishing continues to be quite good on Shasta and Its likely to continue into summer.  If you want a shot at a trophy class brown, give e a call!  My April dates...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake for brown trout.  All things considered, we had a good day on the water, but the conditions for chasing big browns just wasn't there.  Bright moon at night and bright sun during the day are less than optimal.  We had wind on the water most of the day and that saved us for sure.  Three...
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Today fellow big brown hunter, Mike Fisher and I hit Shasta Lake in search of some big trout.  The morning was cold and wet, but the browns were biting.  Trolling big Optimizer spoons at 3.8 mph once again proved to be a sure thing and we had a great borwn in the boat early on.  We managed to catch some...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake.  Jon and Daniel wanted to go after a big fish early, but also wanted limits of rainbows to take home.  Their request was fulfilled and we had our big brown trout half way through our first pass, about 10 minutes into our troll.  They were happy with catching the big brown and wanted to go for...
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Not so long ago, I had the privilege to get a call from a local tackle business owner who was looking for a local fishing guide to represent his line of fishing tackle products.  Stan Kulak who is the owner of Trinidad Tackle, gave me his pitch on a number of tackle items that he thought I could use while...
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