Shasta Lake is receiving winter water and she's actually getting more than needed to ensure a full pool condition by May.  Currently, water managers are releasing 35,000 cfs from Shasta to maintain space for flood control.  We are only mid season for our wet weather patterns so keeping the lake down is unfortunate but necessary.  The lake is in great condition though...
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The Sacramento River in Redding has consistently produced some great fishing this winter season!  Flow's are currently 15,000 cfs and is scheduled to bump to 20,000 cfs next week.  Water color is great and it should remain so even after the flow increses.  We fish the Sac in Redding in power boats most of the time so access during heavy...
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Shasta Lake is in perfect shape for the spring fishing season ahead!  We're fishing for rainbows and browns currently and we're seeing a nice grade of fish daily.  Rainbows and browns in the 4-5 lb class have been available and we're catching them.  Still waiting on the big brown trout to start to start stirring around but thats a any...
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Same story this weekend on Shasta Lake as was told last week.  Not much has changed since my last report.  Great water conditions all week with some really nice fish landed as well.  3.5 mph trolling Trinidad Tackle #3 & #4 Oprimizers has been the best producer again this weekend.  The drawdowns for flood control on Shasta has begun but...
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Shasta Lake is in its dead of winter pattern but we're seeing some good size trout coming to the net this week.  I've fished all over the lake except the Pit arm and floating debris is definately limiting where we can fish.  The lake is just over 30' from full pool and water temps are hovering around 49-50 degrees.  the...
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We ventured out on Shasta Lake today with Rob and Patty looking for a few big bites and we didn’t go home scratching our heads. We started our day with a 6 lb. brown caught on a Trinidad Tackle #4 Optimizer with no weight 120’ behind a side planer. We fought some surface debris on the upper McCloud arm but water...
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