After 30 years of fishing and guiding there comes a moment where the catching speaks for itself. That moment is now on Shasta Lake. The Trout are gorging themselves on the shad. Not even the full moon this past weekend slowed them down. These fish are just plain hungry and fiesty. Once hooked up they rip drag pull hard and even jump...
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Fishing on Shasta Lake has sinply been epic the past week. You can't ask for much more than beautiful weather and big hungry Brown and Rainbow Trout. Well, actually you can with crazy double digit fish days of 2, 3 ,4 and 5 pound hard fighting beautiful Trout. These drag ripping beauties are gorging themselves on shad right now and will continue...
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Shasta Lake is hot and not just the weather. Fat Shasta Lake Brown and Rainbow Trout are on their summer feed bag. They are gorging themselves on huge schools of shad, these hard fighting,  drag ripping, dinner plate trout have beautiful meat and are ready for the BBQ, oven or skillet. Let's put a limit of these fatties in your cooler. I have been...
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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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