Most of the browns we are catching are post spawn right now, but we should see some bigger specimens headed upstream around Christmas. In the meantime, we're definitely catching most of our browns over deep water where they seem to be actively searching for baitfish.

Bay Rat Lures newest hot bait! Its a glow pattern Goby finish Long Shallow stick bait thats a killer big fish bait! You can find them at Phils Propeller in Shasta Lake City or at www.bayratlures.com.

This is the Optimizer Spoon pattern that took Dick's rainbow and has taken hundreds of other big rainbows and browns in Shasta Lake over the past few years. Also available at Phils Propeller right now!

Larry and Dick showing off their 4# rainbow double hook up from yesterdays trip! One fish took a Bay Rat Lure and the other an Optimizer spoon!

Tyler Haakana fished with Devin and had a great day netting some nice ones!

Gavin Lennig fished with Two Bug Doug and got this nice rainbow!

Gavin managed some nice ones too!

Thomas Kelly displays a stellar egg eating rainbow as his dad Mitch displays a proud smile!

Steve Duich scored some nice ones like this rainbow!

Mike Lennig fished with his son Gavin and Doug Dolan to score a nice Hot Creek rainbow!