Reel Repair by Alan Tani

The fishing on Upper Klamath Lake was never "hot" but the redband trout are large.  In the last 10 years the trout numbers have declined.  I was on the lake from sun up to after sundown on Friday and Saturday harvesting algae and saw no jumping trout.  Agency Lake is in better shape but not what it was in the past.  The trout fishing in the Williamson River should be picking up with the cool weather and the fishing on the Wood River should be good now.

My first use/ownership of a baitcaster was on the shoreline of the Lake in the Winter, using a night crawler on a bottom rig. Didn't really know what I was doing casting or fishing at a new-to-me place. When I unexpectedly got bit, I got so excited I dropped the reel, and unbeknownst to me, the drag star hit a rock and bent. Every time I cranked the handle, the star hit the reel and would loosen-up. Of course I lost a nice Trout, got frustrated with using that type of reel and pissed about how cheap that Shimano Bantam seemed to be. Would of looked pretty funny to anyone watching...
After that, I mostly fished the Williamson River, which was great in the evening and at night.

Spring Creek keeps the Williamson River cool in the summer and "warmer" during a hard winter.