Good morning fishing fans!  The Sacramento River late fall salmon run has been off to a slow start, but more and more salmon are being caught since this past week.  The next month should show the biggest increase in the salmon action before the river closes to salmon fishing for the year (Jan 1st above Red Bluff).  The Sacramento River...
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Its early, but with our high water now receding from recent storms, its safe to say its go time!  We haven't seen a big rain event in late October in many years, but as predicted, big water this time of the year pulls up salmon and steelhead from the lower reaches of the Sacramento River.  All of our 2021 salmon runs...
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The Sacramento River hatchery steelhead season is beginning and the high water we'll see this week will likely kick start this popular fishery after high water receeds.  We will be fishing the mornings for our late fall Kings, but late morning/afternoon is transition time for steelhead fishing.  Drifting roe or beads is one of our most productive techniques, but back trolling plugs...
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We're starting to see some pretty nice steelhead showing up on the Sacramento River above Red Bluff and its still early for them to be here in big numbers.  Annual steelhead return numbers have improved considerably since Coleman Hatchery started to recycle their hatchery spawners.  The adult steelhead will out migrate from Battle Creek for another ocean season and often times...
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Its been a great Sacramento River salmon season, but its time for me (Capt. Jeff G.) to break away from the river fishing and begin the cold water trout season on Shasta Lake.  Shasta Lake is down 184' feet from full pool, but there's still a lot of water to cover when looking for rainbows and browns. With water temps...
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The Sacramento River fall salmon season is definitely winding down in the Anderson area, but we still have a lot of available Kings holding in the Barge Hole before heading up into Battle Creek towards the Coleman National Fish Hatchery.  We're still seeing good numbers of salmon around, but the Kings we are catching are not too far from entering...
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