Today was the Sacramento River King salmon opener below Red Bluff.  We've been getting reports of lots of salmon in the ocean and the forecasted run for the Sacramento River was estimated to be above average comparing the past few years.  Captains Justin Thompson, Kenny Turner, Kevin Stonebarger and myself set out at first light to see what we could...
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Shasta Lake has been a bit hot and cold for me this past week.  If you're not showing the trout what they want, you're going to have a tough day.  The Shad are thick in the main body and the trout are feeding on them as they please.  Thats making for short bite windows most days for sure.  We caught...
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Hard to believe its nearly King salmon season already.  Every December when the Sacramento River closes to salmon fishing, July seems so far away!  Well, its here again already and the forecasted salmon runs for the Sacramento are far higher than we've seen the past few years.  We're ready and very excited about the kind of fishing our clients shuld experience...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and although we caught some trout at 40' early in the day, by late in the afternoon we caught our last fish at 60'.  Locate the bait and get under them.  Thats where you'll find the bigger trout and salmon! ...
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Today we fished Shasta Lake and although the bite wasn't red hot, we did catch some really nice quality trout.  A lot less bass were pestering our baits today, I'm sure that helped. I'm seeing lots of bait, but not all of the trout are stuffed with them.  Its starting to look like summer, but we're still a ways off from...
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I fished Shasta Lake again today and once again, she threw me a curve ball.  Its been really good in the morning, but the past few days saw a much slower bite.  Strange how just a few days and a few feet of water will make on that body of water.  I'm sure the rediculous amount of boat traffic had...
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