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2010 SHOWS
I will be attending or Speaking at the following
Shows or Stores:
Pacific Northwest Sportsman's show Febuary 10th-14th Expo Center Portland
Speaking in the Blue Theater Wednesday 1:00 pm, Thursday 3:00 pm, Friday 1:00 pm and Sunday 11:00 am
The Central Oregon Sportsman show in Redmond
Seminar date not yet set.
Mel Cottons in San Jose 4/11/10
SHASTA FISHING REPORT
02/01/10
Shasta is 80 feet from the top Centimudi, Bridge Bay, Sugarloaf, and Jones Valley ramps are open. The lake is in the winter phase. Colder water conditions and rapid rising water levels can make the bite difficult this time of year. Fishing for Browns can be good now as the hungry fish return to lake after spawning up river. These browns are often migrating and can be tough to locate. Areas to focus on are the Mccloud and Squaw creek arms. Look for fish on the shallow points or from the surface to 40' for migrating fish. Topline Cripplures or Flee Bitties. Deep lines run 8" Sling Blades trailing Matrix Paddletails, Kazi Minnows. Also try 1/2 oz Hum Dingers.
For Trout Get back behind the boat a good 150 to 200 feet for best results. UV Cripplures, UV Hum Dinger and Whiggle Hoochies are doing the Job. For those that prefer a fast troll try Kazi Minnows in Shad or Rainbow trout, Flee Bittys or Large Hum Dingers. Trout average 16" with a few hitting the 3 pound range. Salmon bite is slow.
Good fishing!
Gary
Dave Dogert of Shasta Lake City caught this Huge Shasta King on June 7th fishing with Paul Di Guilio using the New UV Sling Blade and Blue UV Wiggle Hoochie at 40' in Dry Creek.
Bruce Ellis Utah Pro Staff Director with a 4.9 # Flamming Gorge Koke he caught recently on A UV Sling Blade and Pee Wee hoochie.
Paul Atkinson with a 7# Rainbow Trout he caught while trolling a Brass Red Hum Dinger behind a UV Sling Blade at Lake Koocanusa in Montana.
Mike Zambrano with a 5.5 # rainbow caught at lake tulloch with a pearl Matrix Paddletail with Guide Danny Layne www.fishndans.com
Monte Smith www.goldcountrysportfishing.com with a nice limit of Don Padro Trout caught trolling a Watermelon Diamond Dot Sling Blade and a White Wiggle Hoochie Fall 09.
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5/09/09 Gary Thompson of Modesto caught this Large King Salmon while fishing with Guide Danny Layne of Fish'n Dans Guide Service using www.fish'ndansguideservice.com the new UV Pee Wee Wiggle Hoochie behind a Sling Blade at Don Pedro
Pro Staff Vince Costa caugth this nice Brown on a Blue Cripplure on Feb 2nd at New Melones
Paul Di Guilio with a 5 pound Shasta Brown caught on the Mc Cloud Arm trolling a Kazi Minnow on the surface. He caught 2 limits and keep this one to put on the wall.
Rick Aron of Hooked On Fishing is on the bite at Eagle Lake with this recent catch of Trout up tp 5 pounds. He caught 17 fish in 10 hours on Cripplure and Hum Dingers.
RED HOT BITE
11/16/08
Fished the McCloud Arm this weekend and caught easy Limits of very heavy, hard fighting Rainbows. These fish are all full of shad and are big and fat. Our largest fish was a 19 inch 3.5 pound Rainbow. The average fish is 2 pounds. 90% came off the surface trolling Cripplures 200 feet back. The Glow or Nickel Fire Tiger were the Hot Lure followed by the new UV and Silver Shad Flee Bitty's
Clarke Holland and Pat Bailey with 2 of their Larger fish . Caught on 11/16/08
on ther McCloud arm trolling Cripplures.
Great fishing at the tournament
10/15/08. We had 150 fisherman in this week Shasta Lake Trout Derby. The fishing proved to be the best yet with 91% of the entries catching fish. Most fish were caught from the surface to 20' deep. The best bite was the top 10'. Fisherman were using a variety of baits with the Cripplure producing the best. Fisherman reported catching there fish on the Brass Crushed Fire, Glow Fire Tiger, Glow Shad, Nickel Fishscale and the new not yet available UV Cripplures. Fish were caught from the Dam to Watersgulch. Shasta Tackle's Wharehouse Supervisor Dave Stoffel fishing with his father took 3rd coming up from 5th the first day. Winners Pictures and Derby Results Below
10/08/08 The lake is 152' down water temp. 65 degrees. The lake has turned over. Started fishing around Packers Bay one fish there. Continued fishing around No Name Island picked up 3 fish there, the largest a 19 inch native. Decided to move to Toupee Island. Found a lot of bait and active fish working shad on the surface. Picked up 6 fish there in about 30 Minutes. Great Action. Fished 3 hours caught 10 fish up to 19 inches. The best lures where Cripplures and Hum Dingers in Shad patterns. The Hottest Lures where the New UV Hum Dinger and Cripplures. Not yet available but we will have some at the Seminar at the Bass Hole Friday night. Other good choices the CR and HD in NIckel Silver, Silver Blue or Silver Black. Most fish came from the surface to 15' down. Work the shoreline and look for shad schools with fish on the surface working the bait and you will catch a lot of fish. Fish back 200' 2 MPH.
Good fishing
Gary
DERBY RESULTS 08
1st Place Al Millan 9.82#
2nd Place Butch Jacobson 9.77#
3rd Place Dave Stoffel 9.30#
4th Place Andrew Knorr 9.12#
5th Place Richard Crispi 8.97#
6th Place Greg Higgins 8.93#
7th Place Greg Graham 8.82#
8th Place Ed Cavalero 8.81#
9th Place Heath Immer 8.65#
10th Place Mike Trip 8.58#
Al Millan Mike Tripp
1st place Winner $2500.00 Al Milan Kokanee Power Vice President
was fishing with Prostaff Mike Trip near the Dam. They were using a
variety of lures and Hard Baits.
Pro Staffer Butch Jacobson took 2nd Place.
He was fishing Backbone using Cripplure Nickel Fishscale
and Hum Dingers Black Fishscale
Pro Staffers Chris and Butch Jacobson with some of there Derby Fish.
Dave Stoffel Dennis Stoffel
3rd Place They caught there fish on Cripplures Glow Shad
and UV Scale fishing near Toupee Island.
7/28/08 Joe Salve, Fish Hawk Adventures and Justin Wolf with a nice Coho caught trolling Sling Blades and Salmon Koke-a-nuts in the mouth of the Columbia for an upcoming Angler West Show www.anglerwest.com
8/8/08 Ron Walker caught these nice Green Petter Kokanee using the New UV Sling Blade and UV Pee Wee Hoochie.
 
Pro Staffer Bruce Ellis sent these photos of his Daughter and friend with some nice fish they caught from an outing to Flaming Gorge Utah in August. They caught their fish on Sling Blades and UV Pee Wee Hoochies.
Danny Layne. Fishin Dans Guide Service. Sent this photo of Client Elaine Lucia with a 2.4 pound Koke she caught on a UV Hum Dinger at New Melones
CONGRATULATIONS
Pro Staffers Kendra and Mike Tripp won the New Melones Kokanee Power Derby 08. They caught many of their fish on the New UV
Sling Blades and Pee Wee hoochies.
Email
Hi Gary. I just wanted to thank you for the great seminar you did at Fisherman's Warehouse in Manteca. My fishing buddy and I purchased the lures you suggested and went to New Melones yesterday and had the best fishing trip ever. We virtually limited out on Kokanee and I hooked a Monstor 9# Brown. The only lures we used were Cripplures. This Brown was caught on the Glow Shad Cripplure with the Copper Sling Blades at 80 feet.
Thanks for sharing your expertise
Alex
June 08 Lori Davis with a 2.8 lbs
New Melonies Kokanee caught on
a 6" Pink Glow Sling Blade and
Pink Koke-a-nut and corn soaked
in Pro Cure Scent.
The 08 Kokane Power Derby Results
Several nice Browns caught to 7 pounds. A lot of Kings caught up to 3.25 pounds. Trout were most common at the weigh in however they were averaging 15 inches and did not have much weight. Most everyone caught fish and it was again a great event. For the derby results go to: www.kokaneepower.com
Howard Darney of Mt. Lakes Guide Service www.Mtnlakesguideservice.com and Vince Costa with there Sunday fish they took 12th place. They caught there fish on Cripplures and Hum Dingers
Cesar & Mike Elster of Fishing with Mikes Guide Service melster@ulink.net with Sundays fish. They caught there fish on Shasta Tackle.
3/23/08 Harley Boos of Arryo Grande. Glory Hole Sports BIG FISH OF THE WEEK a 5# Brown caught trolling a Shasta Matrix Flee Bitty Shad behind a Watermelon Sling Blade 85' under the 49 Sttevenot Bridge.
Frank Carney with 4 Halibut he caught in San Francisco Bay 3/8/08 on 8" Sling Blades
3/10/08 Pro Staffer, Vince Costa with a nice 5 pound New Melones Brown he caught troling a Super Glow Sling Blade and Glow Silver Hum Dinger near the Dam 70' deep.
2/8/08 Chris Mesker with a 7 pound Brown he caught Top linning a Brass Red Cripplure smothered in Pro Cure Shad Gel on the Mcloud Arm Shasta Lake.
Carlos Cordova caught these beautiful Trout on Cripplures while fishing Eagle Lake with Pro Staffer Howard Darney of Mountain Lakes Guide Service. www.Mtnlakesguideservice.com
Pro Staffer Dan Hannum Caught this 25.38 pound Wiper on 7/18/07 at Lahonton Res. in Nevada. This fish is the Lake Record, Nevada State record and 12# test World Record. Watch for the Upcoming Angler West show on Lahonton Res. www.anglerwest.com
Collins Lake with Raith Heryford and Myself
3/18/08 Justin Wolff and myself meet Raith Heryford of RH Guide Service www.rhguideservice.com at 9:30 A.M. At the Collins Lake Store. www.collinslake.com After a quick trip through the Store for supplies we headed out. Raith Guided me to the North end of the lake to an area he had caught fish earlier in the week. There were several boats in the area but not many fish this day. We picked up a few small fish before deciding to go on the Hunt for some warmer water and bigger fish. We powered up my 20' Duckworth Boat and headed for a big shallow cove Northeast of the Boat launch. The temp there was a couple of degrees warmer or 53 . We began trolling just of some willows near shore in about 15' of water. A red gold sand Hum Dinger at 8' a Brass Red Cripplure at 6' and two Orange Flee Bitty's on the surface. I didnt take long before we had a nice 4.5 pounder on. It hit the Hum Dinger and was hooked good. Raith played the fish well and soon we landed it. We didnt have much time to celebrate before hooking another Fish around 3 pouns on a Flee Bitty. This continued for 2 hours with one fish after another. Justin had enough on films and wanted in on the action and started casting Flee Bitty's from the bow. He hooked some nice fish himself. We fished maybe 5 hours hooked close to 20 fish fron 15" up to 4.5 pounds. The show will air sometime in April. www.anglerwest.com
Good fishing
Shasta Pro Staffer Greg Graham won the
2007 Shasta Lake Trout Derby
SHASTA LAKE TROUT DERBY RESULTS 2007
1st Greg Graham Gold Hills OR. 9.58 lbs
2nd Gene Mollenbauch CA 8.96 lbs
3rd Rick Pietrewich Santa Rosa CA. 8.86 lbs
4th Sambo Lage Concord CA. 8.74 lbs
5th Al Millan Daly City CA. 8.33 lbs
6th Mike Trip Oroville CA. 8.20 lbs
7th Khanh Tran Fremont CA. 8.19 lbs
8th George Barberick Livermore CA 8.12 lbs
9th Sean Vinson Shasta Lake CA. 8.12 lbs
10th Vince Costa Mt Ranch CA. 8.08 lbs
11th Warren Worthington Modesto CA. 8.03 lbs
12th Glen Polini Santa Clara CA. 7.92 lbs
13th Alan Traynor Hayward CA. 7.88 lbs
14th Doug Reiser Redding CA. 7.81 lbs
15th John Price Redding CA. 7.70 lbs
16th Ed Cavallero 7.58 lbs
17th Gary Coe Folsom CA. 7.49 lbs
18th Kevin Smith San mateo CA. 7.49 lbs
19th Bruce Wicks Folsom CA. 7.49 lbs
20th Butch Jacobson Livermore CA. 7.39 lbs
21st Gary Edminster Somerset CA. 7.37 lbs
22nd Robert Clements Dayton NV. 7.36 lbs
23rd Adam Wheelen Redding CA. 7.29 lbs
24th Terry Kassahnn Redding CA. 7.03 lbs
25th Mitch Bicandi San Jose CA. 6.99 lbs
10/08/07
Joe with two nice Shasta trout caught near the Dam on Flee Bitty's and Paddle-tails
Gary This fish was taken off a dipsey. with a 6ft leader at 2.7 mph. He swallowed the Matrix Minnow, they dont usually do that, in fact it is rare! I'm out again on Sat. The Shasta Sling Blades will ride again.
Capt. Scott D'Agata Reel Action Charters www.captainscottd@twcny.rr.com
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