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Collins Lake 4/20/2010
We have fished Collins lake 2 to 4 times a week for the last 4 weeks and have been doing very well with one trip getting us 20+ fish.
Everything seems to be working, Rapalas, trolling flies, grubs, spinners.. Almost everything seems to catch them as long as we are using them with the G2 Jigger. I really like this new product. It also is catching Macks at Stampede with stickfisk in chrome green color and the big rapalas in chrome blue or chrome black…
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Most of the Macks are 21-24 inches and running about 4-5 pounds with the biggest hitting 17+lbs…
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Collins Lake 3/19/10
Collins Lake Rainbow Trout
Fished Collins 3 days in a row and the fishing was great on Friday, Good on Saturday and fair on Sunday.
Friday we got over 10 with one over 4lbs and on Saturday we got 8 with one 3+lber and 4 over 2lbs. On Sunday we only scratched out 4 with 1 going just under 3lbs…
Got fish on Trolling Flies, Cripplures, Fishen w/ Gary spinners and Rapalas…
On Sunday Paul Kneeland got one over 6 lbs on the fishsniffer boat late in the afternoon. Good to hear someone had a good day on Sunday, most the fishermen we talked to on Sunday were having a tough day…
Tags: Collins Lake, Rainbow Trout
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Collins Lake 3/15/2010
Today we had a half day guide. We fished with Ryan Carlson of Grass Valley.
Got on the water at 8:30am and off at 12:30pm. We lost the first 4 we hooked up, then they started sticking. Ended up catching 7 and losing 8 with 2 going over 2 lbs, the rest were dinks. All fish under 2 lbs are returned to the lake to fatten up a bit.
Water temp was about 51-53 degrees and fish were a little deeper today (15-20 feet). Cinnamon, rust and brown colors are working well as is orange. Chartreuse is starting to catch fish also.
Tags: Collins Lake, Rainbow Trout
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Collins Lake – 3/10/10
Today we fished with George and Shalai Harrison of Grass Valley. Started fishing at 10am and 5 minutes into the day we had landed the largest fish of the day, a 3 1/2lb rainbow on a Cripplure behind a Sling Blade.
We caught 6 more and lost about 4 or 5 and had atleast that many bumps. The Artic Fox Tube Fly with a Wiggle Fin behind a Seps Watermelon dodger did very well. Also the black/white(Cop Car or Mad Cow) Uncle Larrys spinner behind a Seps Chrome Pink dodger did good.
We will be back at Collins tomorrow then we will be on Oroville for a week or so.
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Scott’s Flat Reservoir – 2/28/2010
Today Jaysen, My daughter Cordelia and my son Bobby and myself fished with Dan Bacher the editor of the Fishsniffer on Scott’s Flat Reservoir.
We fished from about 8:30 am till about noon and had a great time as it is always alot of fun fishing with Dan.
Well the fishing was slow. We had one bite on a Arctic Fox Trolling Fly with a sling blade dodger right off the bat as we were letting out the presentation leaving the ramp on the campground side of the lake. Then about 15 minutes later my son(Bobby) long-lined released a small trout on a Shasta Tackle Cripplure.
We headed over to the dam and had no hookups. We then trolled over towards the Cascade shores launch ramp and Bobby long-lined released another trout on a copper Uncle Larrys behind a sling blade. Then we had a double hook-up with Cordelia landing a small trout and Dan landing about a 1 1/2 to 2 lb trout. Cordys was on a Fishin w/ Garys copper spinner behind a Vances dodger and Dans came on a Cripplure.
Right after we landed the fish the wind came up and the bite shut down which is the opposite of what happens at other lakes. We usually like lots of wind when we are fishing the upper water column but not at Scott’s Flat. We fished the main body of the lake and the creek arm then called it a day.
P.S. Last week a fishermen on the lake had a 20lb+ rainbow follow his presentation to the boat and last year we heard the same thing happen to another fishermen,we have heard of some monster Ranibows in the lake but have never heard of anyone ever catching one. Jaysen and myself had the same thing happen to us back in 2002 and spent hundreds of hours trying to catch that beast over two years to no avail. You can bet we will be back at it again very soon with a fresh report of the monsters sighting.
Tags: Rainbow Trout, Scott's Flat
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Rollins Reservoir – 2/18/2010
Fished from 1st light to about 11:30 am for Browns. We had 1 very hard pull down and the fish was on for maybe 10 seconds then gone, but from the take down and the few seconds the rod was in Jayen’s (deckhand) hands it was a very large fish.
We fished the area for about 2 hours then switched over to rainbow tackle and got 6 in no time at all which was a surprize since the rainbow fishing has been fairly tough as of late. I figure they must have planted the lake in the last few days as all of the trout were planter size with the rounded caudal (tail) fin.
We fished with Shasta Tackle’s Matrix Kazi Minnows for the Browns in rainbow trout pattern and used Fish with Gary spinners and wee tads behind Shasta Tackle and Vances dodgers. We also used a Seps dodger with an Uncle Larrys Cop Car spinner that we were using at Almanor and it got the last fish of the day.
Looks like we have some rain heading our way so I might put off my return trip to Almanor this weekend and the first part of next week and head over to Collins to see how the trout fishing is.
I know the bass bite is awesome right now on Collins.
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Lake Almanor – 2/15/2010
Fishing for Bows and Browns is wide open. We caught 24 trout in a little over 6 hours with a 4lb 11oz being the largest. Artic fox trolling fly behind the large Shasta tackle dodger got the big one. Cop car uncle larrys did very well as did fishing with a gary pink spinner.
The 10 fish the clients kept totaled just under 26lbs.
The fish are spawning and the bite should only get better over the next few weeks if thats possible.
Tags: Lake Almanor, Rainbow Trout