Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition 3814 June 21- July 5 2019 | Page 10

FRESHWATER
June 21 - July 5, 2019
FRESHWATER
REPORTS:
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BULLARDS BAR/ENGLEBRIGHT
RESERVOIR cont.
Anglers are also landing some wild
rainbows in the 12 to 13 inch class while
trolling nightcrawlers behind dodgers in
the river and creek mouths.
Bullards Bar is holding 948,985 acre feet
of water, 98 percent of capacity and 113
percent of average.
Reports from Englebright Reservoir
are scarce at this time. However, one
customer, a knowledgeable angler,
reported very tough trout action – he
didn’t land any fish – on his latest trolling
adventure at Englebright, noted Newton.
- Dan Bacher
CAMANCHE LAKE
Trollers Bag Trout In Deep
Water
BURSON – Trout plants are finished at
Lake Camanche until the fall when the
lake cools down. Right now, trollers are
hooking rainbows in the deepest waters of
the reservoir from the river channel to the
dam while using Speedy Shiners, Apex
lures or nightcrawlers behind dodgers.
Some anglers are finding success on
largemouth and spotted bass. Long time
Camanche Angler, Dave Jans reported,” I
caught 7 bass today on 7 different baits-
plastics to reaction baits. Fish are close
to the shore in the morning and move
deeper as the sun warms the water. The
water temperature was 68 degrees in the
morning and 74 degrees in the afternoon.”
Lake Camanche’s elevation has
increased up to 83% full and at elevation
225.35′ with increased flow from Pardee.
Pardee was releasing 3,374 cubic feet
per second into Lake Camanche while
Camanche was releasing 2,903 C.F.S.
into the Mokelumne River again at the
time of this report. Pardee Lake was still
receiving snow runoff and was at 101
% while continuing to release over its
spillway.
For more information regarding water
levels, you can visit http://cdec.water.
ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=RES
to try some
late afternoon-
night fishing
at Clear Lake
– and got into
a great evening
largemouth bite.
“We got to
Red Bud about
2 pm and found
that many, many
folks had the
same idea.,” said
Hemphill. “There
might have been
some tournament,
but certainly lots
of pre-fishing was
going on.”
“!We fished the
south end and
caught a few, here
and there,” he
said. “The lake got
quiet around 7 pm,
but still some folks
were running here
and there up until Joe traveled to Collins Lake this May and got a quartet of big bad
dark. We found a rainbow trout.
Photo courtesy of the COLLINS LAKE RECREATION AREA, Oregon House.
quiet area to fish
the hour before
dark - and the bite
Importantly the water has maintained
was ON!”
its clarity all week and the temperature
“It was almost like the old days,” said
seems to have stabilized.
Hemphill. “It continued up until midnight
After a few slow days trout and bass are
when we called it a day - er, a night! Our
back at it. Folks have stopped by to show
best five fish were around 21+ pounds,
us a number of large fish- most caught
and my biggest at 5.78 lbs. I caught that
trolling between 20 – 30ft down but a
one about 11 pm. The bass moved up the
good number caught off shore as well.
hour before dark - 8 to 15 feet and were
We entered June with a completely
using newly formed weed edges.”
full lake; today it’s gently spilling, not
“We did a little cranking with no results,’
quite an inch. Surface temperatures are
he advised. “The evening bite was too
climbing again after the strong winds last
good with soft baits to do much else.
Sunday, yesterday I read the surface
Senkos were working well as always.
at 69.8F. Even with all the turbulence
Kreature baits were great too. The worm
and occasional rain the water along the
bite was fair. This was the first time this
shoreline remains crystal clear.
year that found us casting to targets
Joe McAtee from Vacaville was off
(weed lines, wood), as the bass were in
the water before noon with four large
certain feeding positions. Mike lost a really trout including a 6 pounder all caught
big fish which didn’t seem to be a catfish.”
on Speedy Shiners out along the main
The surface water temperature was
channel in front of the main marina. Greg
70-71 degrees and the water was stained,
Harris from Yuba City caught a 6 1/4
with 2 to 4 foot visibility.
pound Rainbow Trout from the bank
- Dan Bacher with worm.
COLLINS LAKE
Trout, Bass Top Prospects for
Summer Sport
CLEAR LAKE
Largemouths Hit an Array of
Baits After Lake Calms Down
CLEARLAKE - Mike Sperbeck and
fishing guide Larry Hemphill decided
GREAT FISHING
AT CAPLES LAKE!
VOL.38 • ISS. 14
OREGON HOUSE - Sunshine and blue
skies were followed by a drizzle ,a spat of
hail, overcast and then clear skies again
at Collins Lake.
My advice? Come and see for yourself
but bring a jacket, just in case. One of the
nice things about
late rains we saw
3813
recently is that the
air is as clear as
you’ll ever see it.
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CDFW Plant Boosts Trout
Fishing Success
PORTOLA – Trout fishing has perked
up at Lake Davis, due to a recent plant of
6,000 trout in the 12 to 16 inch range in
the reservoir by the California Department
of Fish and Wildlife.
“Fishing is not too bad,” said Jim
Graham at the J & J Grizzly Country
Store and Campground Resort. “Bank
fishermen are catching limits of rainbows,
a mixture of planters and larger holdovers
averaging 20 inches each, while tossing
out worms and PowerBait at Mallard and
the Lightning Tree.”
Trollers are nailing the trout while fishing
with red dot frog and copper red head
Dick Nites and Little Simon lures at 10 to
20 feet deep. Another CDFW trout plant
was scheduled for June 13.
Some largemouth bass in the 12 to 14
inch range have been caught by anglers
fishing for trout at the Lightning Tree with
PowerBait and nightcrawlers.
For scrappy brown bullhead catfish,
fishermen should toss out worms and
PowerBait in Coot Bay.
Davis Lake is holding 82,692 feet of
water, 100 percent of capacity and 123
percent of average.
- Dan Bacher
LAKE DEL VALLE
Striped Bass Bite Comes Alive
LIVERMORE – The lake temperature
at Del Valle has been in the lower sixties
in the mornings with the temperature
increasing throughout the day. This makes
the early mornings a key time to be here if
you are interested in trout.
The striped bass fishing is finally coming
back to life as the water temperatures
heat up. We expect to start seeing striper
boils all over the lake in the coming
weeks. For now, the main way to hook
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LAKE DAVIS
Bass activity continues to be
good. Harley Matney told us his day
started off slow ,but he brought in
two 3 1/2 pounders and a few 1 and
2 pounders dropshoting Sencos.
Crappie and small panfish action
has been slower than normal,,
but this is likely just a side effect
of the late rains and intermittent
cold weather; look for a late start
mid-June. Still, I would be remiss if
I failed to mention the beautiful one-
pound redear sunfish that Nicholas
Durbala caught along with Zachary &
Elias near the marina on a worm.
Now that I’ve gone over this week’s
fishing it seems that one way or
another using worms is solid advice!
Nightcrawler
for trout, red
worms for
panfish and
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