SHASTA FISHING REPORT  8/12/08

Shasta is 120 down, the surface is 75 degress.  All BOAT LAUNCHES OPEN The best fishing right now is in the Main Body of the lake from Bridge Bay to the Dam. Dry Creek is good for both Salmon and Trout. The area around the Dam has been producing good numbers of Quality Rainbows. Toupee Island is producing as well. The best bite has been from 36' to 100' deep. The Salmon generally are holding in the deeper water. The Best lure most recently have been: The New UV Sling Blades in the 6 " size paired with the New Pee Wee UV Hoochies, Cripplure Glow Shad or Nickel Blue. Matrix Paddle-tails and the Hum Dingers in Silver Blue or Purple White.

THE BITE IS GOOD

LAST TRIP 8/12/08   We boated 12 fish, mostly Trout and a few Salmon up to 2 pounds with the average fish running about 16". . The best bite was at 75'. Hum Dingers did well today on Droppers and the new UV Sling Blades and Matrix  Paddle-tails produced many of the fish. We caught our Largest fish on Blue Paddle-tails and the UV Sling Blade at 96'.  We fished the West side of Toupee Island .

7/28/08 Joe Salve, Fish Hawk Adventures and Justin Wolf with a nice Coho caught trolling Sling Blades and Salmon Koke-a-nuts in the mouth of the Columbia for an upcoming Angler West Show  www.anglerwest.com

8/8/08  Ron Walker caught these nice Green Petter Kokanee using the New UV Sling Blade and UV Pee Wee Hoochie.

Pro Staffer Bruce Ellis sent these photos of  his Daughter and friend with some nice fish they caught from an outing to Flaming Gorge Utah in August. They caught their fish on Sling Blades and UV Pee Wee Hoochies.

Danny Layne. Fishin Dans Guide Service.  Sent this photo of Client Elaine Lucia with a 2.4 pound Koke she caught on a UV Hum Dinger at New Melones

 

CONGRATULATIONS

 

Pro Staffers Kendra and Mike Tripp won the New Melones Kokanee Power Derby 08. They caught many  of  their fish on the New UV

Sling Blades and Pee Wee hoochies.

 

Email

Hi Gary. I just wanted to thank you for the great seminar you did at Fisherman's Warehouse in Manteca. My fishing buddy and I purchased the lures you suggested and went to New Melones yesterday and had the best fishing trip ever. We virtually limited out on Kokanee and I hooked a Monstor 9# Brown. The only lures we used were Cripplures. This Brown was caught on the Glow Shad Cripplure with the Copper Sling Blades at 80 feet.

 

Thanks for sharing your expertise

 

Alex

June 08 Lori Davis with a 2.8 lbs

New Melonies Kokanee caught on

 a 6" Pink Glow Sling Blade and

 Pink Koke-a-nut and corn soaked

 in Pro Cure Scent. 

The 08 Kokane Power Derby Results

Several nice Browns caught to 7 pounds. A lot of Kings caught up to 3.25 pounds. Trout were most common at the weigh in however they were averaging 15 inches and did not have much weight. Most everyone caught fish and it was again a great  event. For the derby results go to: www.kokaneepower.com

Howard Darney of Mt. Lakes Guide Service www.Mtnlakesguideservice.com and Vince Costa with there Sunday fish they took 12th place. They caught there fish on Cripplures and Hum Dingers

Frank Carney with 4 Halibut he caught in San Francisco Bay 3/8/08 on 8" Sling Blades

3/10/08  Pro Staffer, Vince Costa with a nice 5 pound New Melones Brown he caught troling a Super Glow Sling Blade and Glow Silver Hum Dinger near the Dam 70' deep.

SHASTA

Cal Kellogg of the Fish Sniffer and I did a stroy and a Angler West show on the Plankton Bloom on Shasta Lake. Coming soon to the Fish Sniffer and look for it on Angler West TV Saturdays at 8:30 AM Check   www.anglerwest.com  for Time and Date.

Kokanee Power Trout & Salmon Derby May  07

The derby went well with 250 fisherman and most caught fish as the fishing and weather this year was Great. Good friend and Pro Staffer,  Chick Hale whom I have had the pleasure of fishing with several times Won the Derby with a two day total for eight fish of over 22 pounds. He caught a variety of fish and weighed in Browns, Rainbows and King Salmon.  Great Job Chick and Marie!!!

Many nice fish were weighed in the largest Brown was over 7 Pounds, the large Rainbow was over 6 pounds and the big Salmon was 5 pounds.

4/28/07

Here we go again. The unstable weather has made the conditions on the lake Trying to say the least. Worked the upper McCloud Arm for Browns. Located good numbers of Fish holding in 30' of water but could not get them to Bite. Returned to the Dam on a fovorable report from Ben Ramondi the day prior. A bite came on at about11:00 AM and we started to catch Rainbows from the surface to 36 feet. In two hour we boated 6 Rainbows to 18". The top producer was the Criplure Glow Firetiger. Also caught fish on Pink Koke-a-nuts behind Super Glow Sling Blades and Matrix Paddle-tails behind the 8" Sling Blade.  Also received, this week, a report and Photo of a 6 pound Brown caught on the Pit Arm on the Glow Firetiger Crippliue. We fished deeper water in search of some sizeable Kings but found none and no measurable Kings reported Today from anyone else.

4/26/07 Alan Gilman with a 6 # Brown he caught on the Pit Arm trolling a Cripplure Glow Firetiger  "NICE Fish!"

4/11/07

Well It's that time of year when the plankton bloom happens up the Pit Arm so we headed up to there and found a good bloom and some nice Trout action. In about 5 hours we caught three limits of Trout averaging 16" and managed to land to beautiful, healthy Native Pit River Rainbows the first a fat 23" 4 pound Male and an hour later we hit a hugh 26"  6 pound Native. We caught all our fish from the surface to 12' deep. The hot set up was the Copper Orange Sling Blade trailing the Copper Orange Hum Dinger and the Cripplure Brass Orange or Red Prism. Both of the bigger fish came off the surface with the Brass Red Prism Cripplure. We also picked up fish on the Cripplure Glow Fire Tiger and Brass red Hum Dinger.

I will ad the pictures when I get them.

Some Salmon are bitting in Dry Creek the Dam, Digger Bay and Back Bone from 60 to 150 feet deep. Sling Blade Super Glow or Purple Bow with Pink Glow Koke-A-Nuts or Silver Blue Hum Dingers and the Super Glow Shad Cripplure all working. Some Browns bitting on the McCloud Arm Hirz Bay. 1/2 OZ Hum Dingers Brass Red and Matrix Kazi Minnows trolled 3 MPH from the Surface to 60' deep. Slamon are Averaging 18" with some 22"  and 4 Pounds possible. The Brown are running 3 to 5 pounds.

Good fishing

Gary

4/10/07 Tom Firth with his 6# Native Rainbow caught trolling a Brass Red Cripplure

3/24/07

The Lake is 20' from the top and 58 degrees. I am finally done with the shows and fishing again. I would like to thank all of you that stopped  by at the shows this year to say hi. 

 I was excited to get out today as we left Jones Valley at 7:00 AM. We headed for Hirtz Bay to try for Browns. Did nothing there in two hours so we headed to Bridge Bay. One small rainbow on the surface under the bridge. After an hour there, we headed for Backbone and  ran into a guy that had a nice stringer and who was nice enough to let me know how deep he was fishing. 125 to 150 feet deep. We quickly droped to those depths and picked up 5 nice Salmon averaging 18".  The hottest bait was the Purple Bow Sling Blade Sling Blade trailing 3' back the Silver Blue White with Red chin Hum Dinger (Captain America). We also hit fish on the new Matrix Paddle Tail in a Shad pattern.  I know a lot of you are trying to find this bait as we sold  out our first two order at the shows.  We expect to have them in stock by the middle of next month. We will put them on the site at that time. 

Thanks and good fishing!

Gary                 

10/17/06

Shasta Lake Trout Derby Results

Well the Shasta Lake Trout Derby ended with a bang. As in Lightning. With a full Derby 225 Fisherman Experience Challenging Weather and Fishing. As often happens this time of year the weather changed and so did the fishing. Just a few days before the Derby the fish were moving onto the Points and feeding well offering great fishing but then things warmed up and then the front came in on this event and slowed the bite. Some found decent numbers of fish fishing shallow on the points near Toupee Island like Pro Staffer Howard Darney who landed 15 trout on the first day and John Howard a long time client and derby participant. John found fish in a variety of locations trolling Cripplures and Hum Dinger over shallow points to take and hold the lead through Sunday winning the Grand Prize of $2500.00. Sambo Lage gave John a run for his money on Sunday moving from 5th  palce to second on Sunday to win $1,000.00 and $100 dollars from Walker Downriggers for the Walker Award. Sambo caught his fish trolling points  around Slaughterhouse Islands His hot lures was what he calls the "Captain America" Hum Dinger  ( Silver Blue White with a red chin). Randy Doyle Took third Casting Shad Schools on Points with Kastmasters.  PHOTOS BELOW

Derby Results

Place   First            Last        City                    State        Weight

 1st            John        Howard              Novato                       Ca.                 10.59

2nd           Sambo      Lage                 Concord                    Ca.                  10.46

3rd           Randy         Doyle               Redding                    Ca.                   9.42

4th           Melissa      Lenard              Redding                   Ca.                   8.52

5th           Rick           Pietrewich        Santa Rosa              Ca.                   8.33

6th          Mitch          Bicandi            San Jose                   Ca.                   7.55

7th         Robert          Davies             Lakehead                 Ca.                  7.29

8th         Robert          Carrell              Redding                  Ca.                   7.06

9th         Robert          Jackson          Yreka                       Ca.                    6.94

10th        Ed              Cavellero          Redding                 Ca.                     6.94

11th       Sue            Brown              San Andreas           Ca.                     6.91

12th      Al                Millan              Daly City                    Ca.                      6.9

NEW! • "Fishing with Gary" • Events and Links

Weather