A nice brown trout for this young man made the day!

Its winter on Shasta Lake and the trout are waiting! We’ve been out a number of times and have been running trips when we can. Its the slowest time of the year for the business, but we take full advantage of the extra time to get ready for the busy spring schedule. We’ve been catching some nice fish and from here on out we should just continue to see the numbers improve. Our slowest day this winter was a 4 trout day, but we’ve had several days with limits or near limits of nice trout. We’re definitely seeing more browns in the system this year and I think thats due to the heavy plants we’ve been seeing the past few years. Its also the time of the year when we start to see a lot of the post spawn browns coming back into the system after spawning. We will catch some 15”-18” browns almost daily, but we’ve caught a few in the 4-5 lb range. A couple of browns have been much bigger, but they never made it not the net. Most of our days have been spent trolling lures on side planers and thats definitely been the most productive method again this winter. All in all, we’re looking forward to the next few months of trout fishing on Shasta Lake and always look forward to our spring brown trout fishing. I’m always wondering when that next big brown is gonna strike!