SHASTA LAKE SPRING TROUT & SALMON DERBY

By Paul J. Kneeland

The 22nd annual Shasta Lake Spring Trout & Salmon Derby took place on the first weekend of May at Lakehead on the upper Sacramento arm of Shasta Lake. The lake was full to the brim this year and absolutely gorgeous. The Spring derby includes brown and rainbow trout (only 1 brown weighed in per day per team), kokanee salmon and King salmon(only 2 kings per day).

We stayed at the lovely Tsasdi Resort at Lakehead and we had 3 teams in our large cabin, including myself and John Brassfield, Dave Barsi and son in law Mark Talkington, and Kurt and Jen Kock who traveled all the way from Wyoming to fish the derby. We moored all 3 b...