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Crew Trip Today for Bluefin Tuna

by JAMES SMITH / California Dawn
We ran a crew trip today for bluefin tuna. We start off looking for fish in the dark with jigs in hand but did not find anything worth stopping on until daybreak, at that point, we opted to troll finding
(More...) (Tuesday, August 25, 2026)

Fish Emeryville's Scores for 8/25/2026 :

by FISH EMERYVILLE / Emeryville Sportfishing
Good evening anglers!! Only the SeaWolf out today and they 27 LIMITS of Rockfish AND Lingcod today!! Another awesome day of fishing outside the gate!! We have room ALL WEEK for Rockfish/Lingcod trips!! Both 1/2 and FULL day trips!!  Salmon re-opens a
(More...) (Tuesday, August 25, 2026)

Limited out on Lundy this morning!

by BEAVER'S SPORTING GOODS STAFF
Gil, Johnny & Donnie from So-Cal. Limited out on Lundy this morning! Fishing with Garlic Powerbait from a boat. CONGRATS!
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

Fishing is finally getting better on the Truckee River

by MATT KOLES / Gilligan's Fly Service
Fishing is finally getting better on the Truckee River. That time of year when you get cool/ cold mornings, and hot afternoons. Fishing will always be best mid-mornings now.  Flows have remained pretty good. 480, here in Hirschdale, and on down
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

*Bridgeport Reservoir*

by KEN HOFFMAN - BFEF / Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Foundation
BFEF welcomes these happy anglers to the One & Only BFEF TTT CLUB. We welcome Tammy Rose, Michael Royere and Keith Rondeau. Tammy bagged her very 1st BFEF TTT weighing in at 3lbs yesterday. Michael landed his 3lb 4oz BFEF TTT while
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

*Virginia Lakes*

by KEN HOFFMAN - BFEF / Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Foundation
Another FISHTASTIC weekend for anglers catching BFEF Tagged Trophy Trout while fishing Little & Big Virginia Lakes. The bites on fire! BFEF welcomes to the club; Estelle Chung & Jayden, Brett Robinson, Gavin Smith, Landon & Josh, and Mike Mares. Their fish
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

Beautiful Bluefin for today’s crew!

by AARON ANFINSON / Bass Tub Sportfishing
Beautiful Bluefin for today’s crew! We trolled around this morning and started off with a kelp biter, got all dialed back in and then a little time goes buy and bluefin biter!!! The guys made quick work of this one
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

7 gill shark limits

by JONATHON SMITH / Happy Hooker Sportfishing
Shark fishing started slow this morning but we got into wide open 7 gill in the afternoon. Caught limits of good size eaters and released a couple of cows around 200lbs. We are going out tomorrow for more shark and
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

Heat and Smoke Makes for Slow Fishing

by E.B. DUGGAN / "D" Fishing Guide
With the fires, heat and smoke plus the heavy moss in the river the salmon have been slow in moving up river. Low water in both the Upper Klamath and Trinity Rivers has really made for slow Salmon fishing also.
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

Another great 2 days

by JON YOKOMIZO / Sea Wolf Sportfishing
Another great 2 days. Yestsrdays group was pretty content after they caught some rockfish. So most retired their rods and hung out. We finished with 20 limits of rockfish and 30 lingcod. Today they were out for meat the 24
(More...) (Monday, August 24, 2026)

We had some pretty good fly fishing reports from the West this week

by KENS SPORTING GOODS STAFF
We had some pretty good fly fishing reports from the West this week with anglers reporting having 15 to 20 fish days with dry/dropper rigs. One of the things that seemed to help them have this kind of success was
(More...) (Sunday, August 23, 2026)

We had some very good reports from the Twins this past week

by KENS SPORTING GOODS STAFF
We had some very good reports from the Twins this past week, mostly from anglers trolling deep with small wobbling spoons. Downriggers sending lures down around 60 feet or lead core rigs fishing 6 to 8 colors have been getting
(More...) (Sunday, August 23, 2026)

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