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Topic: Road Trip Advice  (Read 867 times)

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  • Napa Fisherman
  • Location: Napa, California
  • Date Registered: Sep 2015
  • Posts: 545
In a week or so I plan on loading up my kayak and a lot of gear and heading North for 3 or 4 days to try to hit as many fishy places as possible. I would like to cruise along the coast for a while and try a few spots for lings and halibut and then travel inland to fish trout lakes or rivers. Im considering going as far as the Oregon border so any advice I can get about some good locations would be appreciated. Id be very interested in hitting some remote forest road only lakes as well and maybe doing a little rabbit/pig hunting if there is any to be had along the way. Thanks


crash

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  • Date Registered: Dec 2007
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Ocean looks a little lumpy this far north but still fishable.  Shelter cove and points south look better.  Lakes on roads are few and far between west of I 5 up this way.  There's a few but you won't have them toyourself. there's the big ones like ruth, trinity, lewiston, and whiskeytown. There are some mountain lakes within reasonable short hikes of the road in the russian wilderness.  East of I5 you have a lot more opportunity for small forest road lakes like that.

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  • Napa Fisherman
  • Location: Napa, California
  • Date Registered: Sep 2015
  • Posts: 545
Im open to skipping the coast and just heading north east to be a little more remote. What would be a generally good area to hit some different lakes for salmanoid species?


DRT Yakbah

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Plumes County. It's in the Sierra Nevada but it has 100's of not thousands of lil mountain lakes. They call it the Lakes Basin recreation area.


crash

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Plumas County is a pretty good call. Eastern Shasta County would work too. Public land pigs are possible In Shasta county but I wouldn't count on that.
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  • Napa Fisherman
  • Location: Napa, California
  • Date Registered: Sep 2015
  • Posts: 545
Okay thanks I think ill head out into Plumas and hit some different places and then consider migrating North depending on the fishing