Today was the annual Sacramento River King salmon opener below the Red Bluff Diversion Dam, 30 minutes south of Redding, Ca.  Perfect weather and the presence of big, bright King salmon in the Sacramento River made for a great morning of fishing.  We managed to get into a beautiful King salmon first thing in the morning and had a few...
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Shasta Lake is fishing as good as it gets right now.  Take away lost fish and we're still getting 15 plus trout and salmon most days.  The Kokanee bite has been really good, but light gear is recommended for the most success when trying to land them in the net.  We hit a few nice browns this week and we've...
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Its safe to say that Shasta Lake is fishing as it normally does during the summer season.  There are small Shad schools pretty much everywhere we go in the lower lake now and the thermocline is now established.  This means its important to focus your efforts at depths that are cold enough to hold salmon and trout.  There's a broad range...
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Shasta Lake has been getting a lot of press lately, mainly surrounding the lower than normal lake levels and the new wild land fires at the north end of the lake.  To be very clear, we are fishing the lower lake near the dam every day and there is still well over 300' feet of water in many of the...
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Shasta Lake is fishing really good this week, especially for Kokanee salmon.  We have been catching kings, kokanee, rainbow trout, and brown trout all week.  The lake surface is really warm and is heating up into the mid 80's every afternoon.  Triple digit outside temperatures this week will surely increase the warm water layers on the surface and that will start...
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Shasta Lake is down 121 feet, but is still very fishable with lots of water still contained within her banks. Surface temps are sitting at about 78 degrees down in the main body of the lake.  53 degree water is still within reach at 65 feet and thats where we're finding most of our bigger fish right now.  Shasta Lake...
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