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Shasta Lake Landlocked Kings and Trout Only $500 For Your Entire Group
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Shasta Lake Landlocked Salmon and Trout - The salmon bite is on. This past week yielded larger fish. Surface temps were 75-80 degrees. Fishing is outstanding with landlocked kings on the bite at 70 - 105 ft. down on Seps watermelon and UV fruit salad dodgers followed by bait. July - Sept. will see even more salmon action on the lake. Take your family fishing on beautiful Shasta Lake this summer with our recession buster special.
Current Shasta Conditions - The lake is at 60 ft. below full pool. Most of the ramps are open.

Sacramento River Steelhead & Wild Trout Fly and Conventional Gear Fishing -
Except for a few days of dirty water after last week's storms, trout fishing has been good for both fly and conventional gear anglers on the Sacramento River.
PMDs, Prince Nymphs, stone fly imitations and american cheese colored beads have been working for our fly fishing clients. As long as the wind doesn't blow too hard, the fly fishing has been good from Redding to Red Bluff. Conventional gear anglers are hooking up on backtrolled hot shots as well as side drifted F4 and F5 Flatfish, crickets and salmon eggs.
River flows are at 9000 CFS and most of the ramps are in decent shape.

Klamath & Sacramento River Salmon - The PFMC is predicting one of the best salmon runs in recent memory on the Klamath. Given the number of jacks that we caught last year, I actually do believe their predictions. We are scheduled to be on the Klamath for the entire month of September. I know it seems a long way off, but our 30 days on the Klamath are already getting booked. Click here for a description of our Klamath River trips. Call now for the best dates. There will be a late fall salmon season on the Sacramento from the Red Bluff Diversion Dam to Knight's Landing Nov 15 - Dec 31.
While we are fishing the Klamath, the lodge will remain open during September for our fly fishing guests. Our fly guide partners will remain in the Redding / Red Bluff area and will be running drift boat fly fishing trips out of the lodge while we are gone.

We are pleased to announce that Bill Divens recently became the first IGFA Certified Captain on the northern Sacramento River. In addition to keeping records, the IGFA drives conservation, research and legislative efforts relating to both fresh and salt water fisheries. We are proud to be associated with this fine organization. Click here to learn more about IGFA.

Here is a great picture of a big salmon and an even better story:

On December 1, 2004, I was fishing with retired guide Herb Wilson below the Bend Bridge in Red Bluff. It was a beautiful cool sunny day and with most of the guides in this area fishing the Barge Hole and environs we had this section of river pretty much to ourselves. We were backtrolling T-60 Flatfish with the autopilot on and had just seen a bald eagle dive into to the River and fly away with a 14” squaw fish.

We were commenting on the gorgeous scenery, no other boats in sight and how salmon fishing is so much more than just catching when my rod tip dove into the water. I hooked the fish and handed it off to Herb. After multiple runs at the boat where we were sure that the fish got off and after a good 5 minutes of lying on the bottom and refusing to move, I looked down into the clear water and saw the T-60 Flatfish looking like a small shiny speck of silver and chartreuse at the front of a huge silvery ghost. After a few hard runs away from the net, we finally landed this 55 lb. chrome beauty. What makes this story really cool is that Herb was the guide that taught me the River in the early 90’s and has since become one of my best friends. A decade ago, I was catching salmon from Herb’s boat. It was really fun to have him catch this monster from mine!

Sacramento River Flows:
Map of Flows from Shasta Lake to Colusa
Graphs of Flows from Lake Shasta to Ord Ferry
Graph of Flow from Keswick Reservoir

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