Captain Justin Thompson checked in over the weekend and reports great rainbow trout fishing on the Sacramento River in Redding.  Flows are up to 6,500 cfs and that has these wild resident rainbow trout on the bite.  Captain Justin had the same group the past two days this weekend and they landed over 30 nice rainbows each day making for...
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Today marks the second week of some great days of fishing for Striped bass on the Sacramento River near Colusa, Ca.  My guide team's season will be relatively short this year due to low water conditions after this years continued drought.  Theres plenty of water to fish, but its not the typical high turbid flows the Stripers favor to spawn in....
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We have run several trips on the Sacramento River for Striped bass the past week or so and the fishing has been pretty darn good.  We're scoring limits most days, but we've fallen short a few days when the Striped bass were on the move.  Its early in the season so we should see more improvements this week into next....
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Shasta Lake is heating up and so is the salmon, trout, and bass bite.  Big browns are still at the forefront of my efforts, but we're catching plenty of other species trolling on Shasta.  The bass bite has been ridiculous and keeping them off the spoons we're trolling is impossible.  We had a great day for Shasta Lake Kokanee salmon...
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Captain Jeff Brady checked in today from the Colusa area and reports there are Stripers being caught daily!  The river is unseasonably low this year and Striper numbers in the river are down, but theres still fish to be caught.  Captain Brady is trolling with live minnows and reporst they are working best for him in the early part of...
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Sac River flows in Redding have improved and so has the rainbow trout fishing, if thats even possible.  Numerous hook ups all day long have kept our clients busy casting off the bow of Captain Justin Thompsons drift boat.  We've seen some big rainbows coming to the net again this year and its showing little signs of slowing down.  We'll...
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