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A few weeks ago, Janet and I went out on a one week sightseeing road trip to tour southern Oregon and northern California. We fished at Shasta Lake in northern California on June 11.

I took this picture of Shasta Dam.



But the above picture does not show the full height of the dam, so I found this picture online. That dam is over 500 feet high at the center.



We caught 14 trout but none were as big as we had hoped for. We were not targeting bass, but we caught 7 of those too.







We trolled using downriggers to fish at depths ranging from 30 to 80 ft. down depending on where the sonar was marking fish. In the picture below there is a fish at about 45 ft down in water 339 ft. deep.



They have floating rest rooms scattered around on this lake. How nice!



On the way down there we scouted some lakes and rivers for possible future fishing trips and we toured Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon.



Mt Shasta is the 2nd highest in the Cascade Mountain Range at a bit over 14,000 ft



On the way home we toured the coast from Eureka CA to Reedsport OR

Eureka harbor



We hiked through groves of giant redwood trees





We even drove the car through one



And we saw lots of the beautiful rugged coast