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the social distancing order, we didn’t go
have our usual cocktail at the Basshole
and Brews, instead barbequing some
nice steaks on the front deck of our cabin
overlooking the lake.
Sunday, we decided to stay in the Sacra-
mento arm instead of
running all over the
lake, mostly because
we were planning
on leaving for home
in early afternoon.
We fished the Salt
Creek area first thing
in the morning,
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On The Sacramento Arm boards. We trolled
down the arm and
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into the gooseneck,
which has always
been one of our
favorite areas on the
lake. One section
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I had caught
the king
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put on a white Silver Horde Kingfisher
spoon and set it 15 feet behind a set of
Vance’s cannonball flashers. We had
trolled about a quarter mile when my
line was ripped off the Canon down-
rigger – fish on! As I played the fish, it
felt very heavy, but wasn’t doing much
fighting. I asked John if I had perhaps
crossed his downrigger line, but he said
that it was clear. I continued pulling
on the Okuma Kokanee Black rod, and
slowly bringing up the fish. The Daiwa
Lexa line counter reel said he was at 18
feet out when I saw a flash and got a
glimpse of the trout – he looked really
good! About that time, he saw the
boat and jumped 3 feet out of the water
about 15 feet behind the boat. Both
John and I exclaimed “that’s a BIG
trout!” The fish tore off about 40 feet
of line, straight down behind the boat. I
worked him back close and he jumped
again – and again tore off a bunch of
line straight down. Finally, I worked
him back in as he was tiring, and netted
a gorgeous 26-inch, 7-pound German
brown! We set the net in the live well
and the hook popped right out of his
mouth as I touched it.
We measured and took photos of the
brown, and then gently released him
back in the water – the biggest trout I
have ever caught at Shasta.
Back To Shasta!
2 weeks later, in the midst of the
corona virus debacle, Bridget Looney
and I decided to head back to Shasta
and boat camp for a couple days. We
figured being in a boat in a big lake
would be about the safest place we
could be! We arrived at the Bailey
Cove ramp about 5 pm and launched
the Rogue Jet Coastal with our camping
gear. We trolled from the I 5 bridge to
Bass Cove and only caught one bass.
We then headed to Waters Gulch and
went into the back of the cove to get out
of the 10-mph wind blowing from the
south. We found a nice spot to moor the
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boat and run the dog and spend the night.
We cooked juicy steaks on the propane
barbeque on the stern of the Coastal, had
baked potato, salad and a good cabernet for
dinner. As daylight waned, the wind died
down and we felt like we were the only
people on the whole lake. The stars came
out, a half moon rose and the lake glowed
silver with the silhouette of the mountains
across the lake a rich cobalt blue. We set
up the double bed size air mattress that fits
perfectly in the stern of the boat, and kept
warm in our sleeping bag for the evening.
The next morning we made coffee, packed
up the gear and started trolling for trout. We
trolled out of Waters Gulch and turned up
the Sacramento River arm. I was trolling 2
lines on top and 2 on the downriggers with
Speedy Shiners, Tasmanian Devils, Yakima
Mag Lips and Silver Horde spoons. We
saw very little on the Lowrance graph, a
few marks at 20 and 40 feet deep, so we set
our downrigger lines there. The wind had
come up from the north about 15 mph and
we trolled dead into it for a while. The I
decided to run up to the gooseneck where
we had luck 2 weeks before. We trolled
through “Brassfield’s Bend” and saw fish all
over the graph from 20 to 50 feet deep, but
couldn’t get a bite! Then we trolled across
the middle hoping to duplicate the big brown
and king salmon from the previous trip, but
again not a bite.
We picked up the gear and ran all the
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