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Thanks guys lot of great ideas here. Matt I will give those a run off boards with short coppers, what you think ? Our biggest Rainbows have come off short copper off the big boards

Thanks Gill I sent an e-mail to a friend of mine who is the lead biologist for the lake to find out if there are any Gobie in Shasta. I should know by Monday when he calls me.

Here is the deal. Shasta Lake is just 10 min from my front gate. Have fished this lake for over 60 years. The average Rainbow is about 12 to 15" , but the place I keep my houseboat there are two Trout pens with feeders and when those feeders go off you can see 12 to 15 lb trout going after the feed outside the pens. Way to many times over the years when one see's still water on the surface you turn off the motor and slide into that area you will see these big fish feeding on surface bugs. I have drug Streamers, spoons by every manufacture of every color and size known to man even used Anchovy, Herring whole, but every five or ten years you will read about some 10 year old kid hooking up a 12 to 16 lb rainbow off the back of a houseboat with a night crawler witch brings up I have never tried a worm harness yet. These illusive Trout are called Eagle Lake Trout that come from Eagle Lake in eastern California . On Eagle Lake we use to use a florescent Orange Rapala with good success now days the fisherman are using a small fly... I have even tried both of these with no success.... I know there is an answer some place that will help hook and land one of these toads

Out west here we will hook up Bass at 125' while trolling for Kings in water you can not see 2', It's all about vibration

Vibration, Vibration, Vibration get the attention

Mark living next to a golf course I now understand why you have no time to repair that roof ..............Guess I will not be coming out I don't own a Nail gun, just an old hammer.

skipper19 Mark looks like you have some roof repair to do before summer comes

If you guys could buy Andy Reeker spoons would you move back to pulling them ?

Not experimenting just curious between Big lakes dodgers and west coast salt water....One that was mentioned was a BLACK & PURPLE I have never seen that one before.....Some interesting answers for sure..