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baits are large nightcrawlers or anchovies.
The catfish hang out around the fallen
trees that are all around the lake. Many of
the catfish take some time to get moving
so you want to get your bait close to the
structure in the water and give them a
decent amount of time.
Big striper honors go to Juliew W. of San
Leandro, who landed an 8 lb. striper while
soaking anchovies.
– Captain Jacob
DON PEDRO LAKE
Bass, Kokanee and Kings on
Bite!
LA GRANGE – The topwater bass
bite at Don Pedro has been perking up,
and there was a single heavy limit taken
during this past weekend’s Best Bass
Tournaments event. Kokanee are another
solid option, and the landlocked salmon
are in as good of shape as in memory.
Monte Smith of Gold Country Sport
Fishing was out in inclement weather this
week, and they found good action for
quality kokanee despite the impending
storms and a full moon. He said, “We
must have missed our first four pulldowns
as once we got the rods out, two rods
went off, but we found a good bite and
ended up with 11 kokanee and 2 rainbow
trout. The key was staying away from
the other boats working the area and
finding our own water as the bite shut off
everything another boat started to move
in close. Micro-hoochies and Uncle
Larry’s spinners behind either a Sling
Blade or Vance’s Dodger at 33 to 55
feet have been working, but the deeper
rods have not been as busy as those
higher in the water column.”
“One of the kokanee was a male at 16
inches and 1.15 pounds, and it already
had teeth on its top and bottom jaw.
These are the cleanest and brightest
kokanee that I have ever seen at Don
Pedro with no parasites and dime-
bright, but I am scared that the action is
going to turn off sooner than later with
the kokanee already starting to show
signs of turning. The water temperature
dropped from 70 degrees earlier in the
week to 66 degrees after the storms,”
said Smith.
The Best Bass Tournaments held an
event at the lake on Saturday with 41
boats, and tournament director Kevin
Cheek said, “We have had inclement
weather at every tournament this spring,
and we would have had over 60 anglers
if the weather was clear. Christian
Ostrander and Ronnie Heil took first
place by over 11 pounds at 27.13
pounds with a big fish at 7.69, but they
didn’t reveal their winning technique.
We heard of good action on topwater
Spooks along with jigs, and there are a
number of suspended fish.”
- Dave Hurley
EASTERN
SIERRA
Trouters
Experience
Mixed Results
BRIDGEPORT
- “Bridgeport
Reservoir is still
kicking out some
very nice fish, some
up to 5+ pounds,
both trolling and
bait fishing are
working,” reported
Jim Reid of Ken’s
Sporting Goods.
“The numbers aren’t
huge lately but the
quality is pretty
good. The trolling
has been best with
Rapalas, crawlers
and Speedy Shiners
while the bait angling
has been best with
inflated crawlers,
The rainbow bite is awesome at Lake Pardee. These impressive fish pinched crawlers
were landed on May 17.
and Powerbait.
Photo courtesy of the PARDEE LAKE RECREATION AREA, Lake
Pardee. Anglers fishing from
boats are doing the
best but there are
still some fish being
caught from the
shore down near the
dam. We haven’t
talked to any fly
anglers from the
reservoir lately but
stripping streamers
either down near
the dam or out from
the marina should
produce some fish.”
“The Twins had
some mixed reports
this week with some
anglers getting into
some nice fish while
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others struggled.
Rainbow and Brown Trout
The anglers who
Largemouth, Smallmouth & Spotted Bass did get into some
seemed to do
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high but there were some good fish in
the 3 to 5-pound range caught. Fishing
near the inlets and off some of the points
along the shore seemed to be the most
productive,” Reid related.
“The East Walker is running at about
363 cfs right now, this flow tends to make
it a bit more difficult to fish and wade, but
there are still some anglers doing pretty
well down there. Of course, the main
objective with a flow like this is to add
enough weight to your rig to get it down
to the bottom where the fish are hanging
out. Larger weights and larger indicators
are going to be what it takes. If you can
get your flies down to the bottom and get
a good drift you should be able to have
some success. The Nevada side, both
private and public, have been still doing
well with this higher flow also. Nymphing
is still the number one way to go with
streamer fishing coming second,” Reid
concluded.
Boyd’s Pump. “
The anglers also released a 14 lb. king
salmon that put up a great fight before
they got the hook out of it.
Most people continue to concentrate on
stripers, but shad are also available for
anglers tossing out darts, jigs, grubs and
flies on the Feather.
- Dan Bacher
FOLSOM LAKE
Trollers Battle Holdover
Rainbows
FOLSOM – Folsom Lake continues to
pump out limits of planter and holdover
rainbow trout with an occasional King
Salmon thrown in for fun.
A scouting trip to Folsom Lake on
Tuesday by Captain James Netzel of
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Bite Continues
RIO LINDA – The
striped bass fishing
is still excellent on
the Feather River
from Yuba City to
Verona, since the
high flows have kept
the striped bass in
the system.
“On my latest trip,
two anglers and I
fished the Feather
in the first mile up
from the mouth at
Verona,” said Tim
Boggs of Elkhorn
Outdoor Sports.
“We caught limits
of stripers from 4
to 9 pounds while
drifting jumbo
minnows.”
“The fish weren’t
even close to
being ready to
spawn. The water
temperature was
only 57 degrees,”
noted.
“On my latest trip,
Dr. Maqsd Dean
had to be at the
hospital, but we did
catch him and his
six-year-old son
their limits before
he had to go,” said
Rob Reimers of
Rustic Rob’s Guide
Service. “They
landed stripers
in the 19 to 22-
inch range while
fishing extra-large
minnows out of
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