WE ARE currently booking 2024/2025 fishing trips!

  • shasta lake rainbow’s, brown’s, King salmon, and spotted bass.

  • SACRAMENTO RIVER wild trout and steelhead fishing.

  • striped bass fishing on the sacramento/feather rivers in (april/may only).

  • whiskeytown lake kokanee salmon

call us TODAY to learn more about all the guided fishing trips we have to offer!

Jeff Goodwin Fishing Team- Owners Jeff, Jaynie, and Gracie Goodwin.

Jeff Goodwin Guide Service- Owners Jeff, Jaynie, and Gracie Goodwin.

Jeff Goodwin Guide Service’s offers year-round guided fishing trips on a few Northern California lakes and the Sacramento River system.  With a well earned reputation for being a top rated fishing charter in northern California, your decision to fish with us should be without hesitation. We guide our clients year round while running hundreds of trips per year on our Northern California waters.  As full time professional fishing guides and USCG licensed Charter Captains, we can offer our guests the very best experience the fishing industry has to offer.

We have been the top choice for lake and river fishing charters in Northern California for several years and offer some excellent guided fishing opportunities on Shasta and local Lakes for landlocked King salmon, Kokanee salmon, rainbow and brown trout. We also offer guided fishing trips on the Sacramento River system for King salmon, rainbow trout, steelhead, and Striped bass when in season.

We have become the premier fishing charter on these lakes and rivers by spending thousands of angler hours on the water every year.  We book all of our year round trips during the peak-near peak periods of each season specific to each body of water.  We do this to ensure our fishing clients have the best opportunity to experience catching the fish we are pursuing that day.  We do however, experience some of our best trips of the year during off peak periods on the water so don't hesitate to book during these timeframes as well. Rest assured, we will always give you an honest fishing report, it’s just how we do business.

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fish pics FROM PAST TRIPS

View fullsize After losing our first several fish we stumbled on this beauty while we were on our @california_sportsmen radio segment. What a great way to start the day! We caught plenty of trout today that’s for sure. I’m taking next week off unless
View fullsize Check out this Rogue River King salmon caught today while fishing with @justinthompsonfishing in Gold Beach, Oregon. Lots of big Kings are headed for the net this summer and he’s still got some availability. Call Jaynie at (530) 510-2925 for
View fullsize Quick limit of five nice rainbows this morning for longtime buddy Chuck. It’s so nice to have Shasta Lake nearby in my community giving me the opportunity to fish it any day of the week I wish to. Shasta is a year round fishery but summertime
View fullsize Shasta’s trout bite was solid all morning into the early afternoon hour. Lots of quality trout and salmon when we target them this summer. We’ll be fishing Shasta through the new year and have plenty of open dates for those who want to
View fullsize Another week of great fishing begins! Shasta Lake is kicking out some great trout, Kings, and even some Kokanee! If you’re looking for some real excitement over on the southern Oregon Coast, there’s some fall Chinook fishing too! Call Ja
View fullsize The Rogue River estuary salmon fishery is underway! @justinthompsonfishing has been fishing the past several days and I had the opportunity to join him along with @kennyturnerfishing and a few friends. The fall salmon are starting to show now in ca
View fullsize @justinthompsonfishing is pre fishing the Rogue estuary before next weeks trips begin! These salmon are big, bright, and pull really hard! Call Jaynie at (530) 510-2925 for more information and available dates. There aren’t many available da
View fullsize Shasta Lake gave up a few Kokanee salmon today on none other than our signature @bradskillerfishinggear Shasta Blue KCP. 15” long, thick, and very clean! These Kokanee look great but unfortunately I don’t run across them often. I haven
View fullsize More fun today on Shasta Lake fishing for rainbows and browns. It was breezy on the lake but that kept the temps down making for a very enjoyable day of fishing. @pautzke_bait @bradskillerfishinggear @california_sportsmen @trinidadtackle23

“We drove up from the San Jose area to fish with Jeff on the Sacramento River. Jeff made sure we were well taken care of- great boat, great gear, always making sure we had fresh tackle when we got snagged up and lost hooks/weights. 

We had a trip last year but Jeff called us and let us know fishing was poor and gave us the option to cancel, which we did. His honesty, his efforts to get us fish was very much appreciated.  We definitely will use Jeff again!

Paul Umeda

San Jose”