The 2021 Sacramento River King salmon season started a month ago and salmon numbers are building from Chico to Anderson.  We've had 2 boats working the Sac since the opener and they are starting to see a significant number of Kings showing now.  The next full moon is on the 22nd and that generally sends a bunch of salmon up...
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Its August, its been very hot all summer, and Shasta Lake is now 149' below full pool.  So how has this years environmental conditions affected the salmon and trout fishing on Shasta Lake?  Well from where I sit, conditions haven't been all that much different from most of our summer seasons gone bye.  Surface temps have been hovering around 81-82 degrees...
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We've been fishing the Sacramento River almost every day since the Sacramento River opened on July 16th.  The river is now open from its mouth all the way to the cut off line at the Deschutes Rd. bridge in Anderson, ca. Not only are we hooking King salmon daily, we're seeing lots of salmon moving through the Red Bluff area and...
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Shasta Lake is heating up and so is the trout bite!  Salmon fishing has slowed for us but mainly because they have gone down DEEP!  The trout fishing has been the best this past week and although we're finding some trout down deep too, they have been a little easier to target in the 55'-65' range.  The salmon water is...
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We're just a few days away from the Sacramento River King salmon opener above Red Bluff.  That opens the remaining area of the Sacramento River that we enjoy fishing for King salmon every year. There are salmon in the upper reaches of the Sacramento River currently, but this Sunday's opener will give us a better idea of what the Anderson-Cottonwood...
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The Sacramento River saw a good return of winter and spring run salmon this year.  These runs are among the smallest returns we see on the Sacramento River every year so a strong showing of our smaller runs is a good predictor for this years fall salmon run thats starting to fill the lower Sacramento River now.  Captain Justin Thompson...
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