WE ARE currently booking 2024 fishing trips!

  • shasta lake rainbow’s, brown’s, King salmon, and spotted bass.

  • SACRAMENTO RIVER wild trout, KING SALMON, and steelhead fishing.

  • striped bass fishing on the sacramento/feather rivers in (april/may only).

  • whiskeytown lake kokanee salmon

call us TODAY to learn more about all the guided fishing trips we have to offer!

Jeff Goodwin Fishing Team- Owners Jeff, Jaynie, and Gracie Goodwin.

Jeff Goodwin Guide Service- Owners Jeff, Jaynie, and Gracie Goodwin.

Jeff Goodwin Guide Service’s offers year-round guided fishing trips on a few Northern California lakes and the Sacramento River system.  With a well earned reputation for being a top rated fishing charter in northern California, your decision to fish with us should be without hesitation. We guide our clients year round while running hundreds of trips per year on our Northern California waters.  As full time professional fishing guides and USCG licensed Charter Captains, we can offer our guests the very best experience the fishing industry has to offer.

We have been the top choice for lake and river fishing charters in Northern California for several years and offer some excellent guided fishing opportunities on Shasta and local Lakes for landlocked King salmon, Kokanee salmon, rainbow and brown trout. We also offer guided fishing trips on the Sacramento River system for King salmon, rainbow trout, steelhead, and Striped bass when in season.

We have become the premier fishing charter on these lakes and rivers by spending thousands of angler hours on the water every year.  We book all of our year round trips during the peak-near peak periods of each season specific to each body of water.  We do this to ensure our fishing clients have the best opportunity to experience catching the fish we are pursuing that day.  We do however, experience some of our best trips of the year during off peak periods on the water so don't hesitate to book during these timeframes as well. Rest assured, we will always give you an honest fishing report, it’s just how we do business.

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fish pics FROM PAST TRIPS

View fullsize With half of our Sacramento River Striped bass fishing season behind us, it’s time to start looking at our Shasta Lake trout/salmon fishery! Summer fishing on Shasta is undoubtedly the best time to fish for rainbows, browns, and King salmon.
View fullsize We had a great weekend with some really great weather! Lots of boats on the Sac River but the Striper fishing was still great with limits for the boats we had on the water. We’re getting a bump in flows (11,000 cfs) from Shasta this next week
View fullsize The great Striper fishing continues! Here are some pics of our client groups and some of their great fish! We are definitely headed towards the season peak but I think we have lots of great fishing ahead still! It sure seems like we’re seeing
View fullsize Same story, different day! Striper fishing has been great and that’s not going to change anytime soon!
View fullsize Quick trip with easy limits for today’s 2 angler charter! Greg and his dad Roy, made quick work of their limits scoring some quality Striped bass for their efforts. Greg had never caught a Striped bass before and was definitely excited to fis
View fullsize It’s been an epic Striper season and it’s only week #2!! We’re seeing a better grade of Stripers coming in with the flow increase and a few big females are starting to show as well! We’re seeing some pretty good concentration
View fullsize We fished through some pretty heavy rainfall this morning but the bite was great and we didn’t suffer long! Our groups got wet and then pretty cold but they all did a great job getting their limits before we headed in. The weather next week l
View fullsize Another great day of Striper fishing on the Sacramento River! We have a wet weather system moving in tonight but we’ll be out in the morning making memories for our client groups! This is probably one of the better Striper seasons I can rememb
View fullsize Another day of Striped bass limits for today’s crew! The Striper fishing continues to provide lots of action and it’s far from over! Call or text Jaynie at (530) 510-2925 for more information and guide availability. @pautzke_bait @brad

“We drove up from the San Jose area to fish with Jeff on the Sacramento River. Jeff made sure we were well taken care of- great boat, great gear, always making sure we had fresh tackle when we got snagged up and lost hooks/weights. 

We had a trip last year but Jeff called us and let us know fishing was poor and gave us the option to cancel, which we did. His honesty, his efforts to get us fish was very much appreciated.  We definitely will use Jeff again!

Paul Umeda

San Jose”