The big news was a 7.52-pound, 25-inch brown trout landed by 13-year-old Miles Hamro off of the bank in Tunnel Creek with a night crawler. Said Dick Gomez: "This is the best fish from Shaver Lake in at least the past 10 years." Dick Nichols of Dick's Fishing Charters continues to tout the kokanee bite for fish to 16 inches. He has put his clients onto limits by 8:30 a.m. by working around the Point, the Island, and in front of Shaver Lake Marina with Captain Jack's No.2 pink Super Hootchies, orange Fat Bugs, orange Apex, or orange/green and orange/chartreuse Trout Buster spinners tipped with corn. Shore fishing with Power Bait has slowed, but limits are possible around the Point. Smallmouth bass are biting spinners or live crickets in the mornings or evenings. Matt McCandless of Shaver Lake has been catching and releasing six to 12 bass per hour in the evenings near the rocky shore on the west side of the Shaver Lake Marina. At Huntington, Merritt Gilbert said trollers have been catching and releasing up to 100 trout to 13.5 inches with blade/crawler combinations, Wedding Rings tipped with a crawler or Apex lures at 15-20 feet deep. A few small kokanee are possible. Bank fishing has been best across from the boat docks or in Rancheria Creek with Power Bait, Panther Martin spinners or Kastmasters. The leaders in Young's Sporting Goods derby are Hamro's 25-inch trout, a 165/8-inch kokanee and a 15-inch smallmouth bass. Shaver has dropped to 91% of capacity, with Huntington rising to 99%. A trout plant is scheduled in Big Creek.
