Today we fished Whiskeytown Lake Kokanee salmon and found the bite to be a bit on the slow side.  We managed to get limits, but it took longer than I am accostomed to for this time of the year.  The Kokanee are definitley staging up in the Whiskey Creek arm and are biting in the 50-55' foot range.  Orange flies...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and were able to pull three limits of trout and salmon before the forecasted 113 degree heat had a chance to interefre with our comfort levels.  The morning started out a little slow and I didn't see fish where I normally do.  A small adjustment about 30 minutes into the trip and we found the...
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Today I fished Shasta Lake and my group experienced some of the best fishing of the season.  First rod dropped to 90' feet got bit before I could get the second rod down.  We had doubles and even a quad hook up making for quick limits and a Yeti ice chest spilling over with beautiful big trout.  Hot baits were 4"...
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I fished Whiskeytown Lake today for Kokanee salmon with a great family of four and we filled the Yeti, yet again. We found Kokanee at every depth we fished, but can say our best bite came from 60'-65' feet down. We showed them the tackle box as usual (lots of baits) and hooked 25 kokanee with 17 of them thrashing into the...
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The 2017 Sacramento River King salmon season is underway and things are looking pretty good for this year's return.  We heard all the doom and gloom from fisheries managers this spring and the general consensus was that we would see a smaller run than we did last year.  As this years ocean salmon season began, the charter boat fleet found...
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I've been fishing Shasta Lake several days a week of late and I've been having great success at the 65'-70' depth line.  Today started out like most days on Shasta and we had a fish on the first rod I sent down.  We landed the first fish within a few minutes of dropping our first line.  It wasn't but a few...
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