Today I fished with the Bartch family who came up to Shasta Lake to catch some brown trout.  We started a little later in the morning hoping for the rain to pass, but had no such luck.  We did finish the day with no wind or rain which was a great!  The bite has been really short and usually comes...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and sort of landed on a good news, bad news kind of day.  The water is in great shape, but there is quite a bit of floating debris on the surface.  This makes for some extra work, especially since I'm still fishing in the top 10 feet of the water column.  We did find some...
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Today Justin fished Shasta Lake with two new clients and although the morning bite was slow, he put in a full day and put some beautiful rainbows in the net!  The bite has been later in the day and the trout are still on top.  The absence of Shad in the main body of the lake has the trout feeding...
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Justin fished the Sacramento River in Redding today and although we saw a sharp rise in the flows and dirty water, Justin's crew caught 56 heft rainbows today!  Its only going to get better when the spring Kings start dropping eggs.  The trout know where the salmon are, and the salmon have eggs!  With lots of Kings rolling in the...
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Justin fished the Sacramento River in Redding today with an impending thunder storm headed our way!  Fishing was off the hook and he had his guys into 60 great rainbows before the river blew out with dirty water.  The thunder, lightning, and hail storm is still raging in the background.  The storm will pass and the weather will settle down...
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Yesterday Justin Thompson fished the Sacramento River with clients and had another action packed day.  He's getting clients on some great fish and its just going to get better and better in the months ahead.  Lots of water does a body of water good and our local trout fishing is exploding!  The fish are healty and are pristine in appearance.  This...
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