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Success Lake rose to 52 percent of its storage capacity, and savvy local anglers used the rising water to target large female bass. Submerged vegetation and rocky structure produced fish up to eight pounds. Jigs, creature baits, and Senkos accounted

Kaweah Lake rose to 29 percent of its storage capacity, and anglers reported an improving bite. Bass were caught on Senkos, drop shot rigs, and darter head jig hula grubs in green pumpkin red flake, baby bass, and oxblood. Small

Water flows on the Upper Kern River have increased slightly over the past few days but remain ideal for fishing. Anglers have been catching trout from Riverside Park in Kernville up to Johnsondale Bridge using salmon eggs, mini jigs, spinners,

The fish are biting and a few spots just opened up for this Monday’s Striper trip! If you’ve been waiting for the perfect chance to get out on the water, this is it. Captain Hayden knows exactly where they’ve been holding and

The Smith is low and clear, sitting just above 7 feet at the Jed Smith gauge. Flows are predicted to continue to drop through the weekend and next week. Fishing reports have been hard to come by as most anglers

The Van Duzen is down below 200 cfs as of Thursday and is low and clear. If it continues to drop at this pace, it could close by early next week. In the meantime, bank anglers should be able to

Conditions are still good on the lower South Fork, but the upper section in the Benbow area and above is getting low and clear. As of Thursday, it was right around 1,500 cfs at Miranda. Fishing has been decent, with

The main Eel is sitting just above 5,000 cfs at Scotia as of Thursday. Conditions should be excellent starting this weekend and through next week. There should be quite a few downers around and some fresh ones as well. The

As of Thursday, the Mad has dipped under 8 feet and still has some color, but is fishable. According to Justin Kelly of RMI Outdoors, those who are trying are hooking fish. He said, “large beads, 18 to 20 mm

After a few wet winters and very little ocean or river salmon harvesting, it looks like we’re finally getting back on track. At least for now. With 392,349 Sacramento River fall Chinook and 176,233 Klamath fall Chinook estimated to be

We had a gray whale that came up to the bost while we were drifting and gave us an exceptionally great close look.  one of the best trips yet!!

GOLDS AND CUTBOWS STOCKED TODAY!! 900lbs was released half at the Dam half near the Spillway. I’m hearing they are still shallow in the morning but many trout are being caught in 25-30’ of water midday when the sun is high