06-30-2006, 10:03 PM
Friend and I hit da' Gorge yesterday and this morning- boated 13 mac (biggest was 18 lb), a few Koke, at least 100 bass and 1 rainbow, all we lacked was a brown to have caught every species of game fish in there in a day. Swim Beach was smoking for the mac, as we caught 10 of the 13 there trolling big pop gear and a minnow on bottom in 65-85 feet of water. Almost all bass were small, which may be typical of the Gorge, though I have never fished for them before up there. Anyone know about that? Kokes were caught early in the morning (6 AMish) on the normal Shasta stuff. Attached are one of the bigger mac and bass. Water temp is 70 on top, Lucerne was pretty empty, and very few fish at Antelope, saw quite a bunch on Swim and a good group at Hideout.
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