I love catching big Sacramento River rainbow trout and steelhead on plugs, but with all the floating vegitation on the river right now, plugging just isntan option.  Plugs foul within minutes and bites at that point become unlikely.  We've been doing really well on egg patterns the past few months, but with many of the fall and late fall King...
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We had a great group on the Sacramento River this weekend!  The trout fishing is about average for this time of the year and you have to work for your bites on every drift.  Fine tuning presentations and maximizing the time your presentations are in the strike zone is really important.  Driftin artificial single salmon eggs behind salmon redds is the...
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Well, three trips on the Trinity River with only a handful of bites each trip has guides and anglers who fish the Trinity scratching their heads.  We've had some rain after the previous weeks fishing, but it didnt set the bite on fire at all.  Captain Justins crew went 2 for 4 today and all the bites came at the...
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Shasta Lake is fishing according to typical winter fashion and a good day on the water one day can turn to not so good the next.  Constant weather changes plague Shasta anglers every winter and often times in the spring as well.  One condition thats playing in our favor is the water levels and color.  Perfect conditions prevail in those...
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Todays first team meeting of the year went well and we spent the first part of the day fishing for rainbow trout.  We fished Brads Wigglers to start the day and switched over to roe/bead presentations on the spin rods.  Captain Kenny hooked a monster steelhead/rainbow above Sundial bridge but lost it after it came up to the surface and...
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We have some rain coming soon and that will do wonders for our Trinity River steelhead.  We've moved several of our Trinity River steelhead fishing trips due to very low water and tough fishing conditions, but thats about to end.  We have a few holes in our January schedule and with rain on the way, I'm confident we'll have some...
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