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

RIO VISTA
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largest striper coming on a shallow-troll
with a P-Line Angry Eye Minnow. The fish
are scattered, and everything has slowed
down, but I know that the downstreamers
will be coming back through the Delta all
through the month of June. These fish
were spawned out this week,” he said.
ROLLINS/SCOTTS FLAT
LAKES
Anglers Return After Storms
COLFAX - “I missed fishing for a week
because of the cold wet weather, but I
was back out on the water yesterday,”
reported Jason Pleece of Meadow Vista.
“I hit Rollins from my kayak and did pretty
well.”
“I picked up 3 pan size rainbows and
a 14-inch brown while pulling an orange
Hum Dinger. I caught all the fish off the
peninsula that separates the Greenhorn
and Bear River arms. I got the brown right
on the surface. The rainbows came while
trolling about 15 feet deep with lead core,”
said Pleece.
“When the trout bite pinched out I
switched over to bass and picked up a
half dozen spotted bass to 13.5 inches
while tossing 4 inch whacky rigged
Senkos. All in all, Rollins is fishing well,”
Pleece concluded.
It’s been tough to get a report from
Scotts Flat Reservoir beyond that there
has been decent topwater and crankbait
action in the marina at first light. Anglers
are utilizing small Rebel
Pop R’s Rapala Shad
Raps to hook smallmouth
bass to 2.5 pounds.
- Dan Bacher
Trout and Catfish Lead Early
Summer Angling Parade
SACRAMENTO
AREA
Shad and Catfish
Top Angling Menu
SACRAMENTO – The
shad action has switched
from the Sacramento
River in downtown to the
American, Feather and
upper Sacramento rivers,
although there are still
some shad being taken at
Discovery Park.
“The shad fishing isn’t
hot as it was, but some
anglers are still catching
fish at Discovery Park,”
said Dennis Pfanner at
Sacramento Pro Tackle.
“The water has come
Greg landed this gigantic rainbow after an epic battle while
up on the Sacramento;
fishing Lake Almanor with Captain Bryan Roccucci on June 7.
anglers are using 8 oz.
Photo courtesy of BIG DADDY SPORTFISHING, Quincy.
torpedo weights to get their
darts and grubs down to
the shad. They’re doing
best fishing chartreuse grubs on 1/8 and
For catfish, anglers should fish
1/16 oz. jigheads.”
mackerel, chicken liver, clams and other
Striper fishing has slowed down locally,
baits in Lisbon Slough, the Sutter Bypass
although anglers are still hooking some
and other sloughs.
bass on jumbo minnows or pileworms for
Rio Vista to Colusa.
As we continued down the bank Jarred
continued to get bit on his swimbait rigged
on an under-spin head.
When the bite died down for a moment,
we decided to head back to the first spot of
the day.
As soon as I drop my Minn Kota 112
Fortrex, I began working an island break,
midway through my cast my rod got
thumped. I swung as hard as I could and
my rod immediately doubled over.
My drag started running and my heart
started pumping! Several minutes later I
landed a solid 10 to 12-pound class striper.
By this point we had figured the bite out
and we were getting hit every other cast.
Jarred landed another striper and I hook
Arlando and his partner Jarred used a
up
with another giant striper. Once again,
variety of different baits during their spring
the striper outsmarted me and it threw my
striper hunt, but the most effective offering
was an underspin jig head paired with a soft
S-waver from its mouth.
plastic swimbait.
About then the tide really started to
Photo by ARLANDO ABELLA, Fish Sniffer Staff.
come in and the bite
really fired up.
We decided to run
to our final spot and
really put a hurt on
some spring bass. As
we were enjoying
catching schoolie
sized fish Jarred made
a phone call.
As Jarred was
talking on the phone
and not 100%
focused on his bait,
the biggest fish of
the day decided to
take advantage of the
moment and catch
both of us off guard.
Jarred‘s bait was
next to the boat and a
huge 20-pound class
fish decided to strike.
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Of course, that fish
ROCKLIN
AUBURN
easily got away!
All in all, in was a
(916)
(530)
great day on the Delta
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FRESHWATER
VOL.38 • ISS. 14
EL SOBRANTE – Trout fishing has
improved greatly with two big trout plants
at San Pablo Reservoir.
“We planted 1,200 lbs. of Mt Lassen
Trout at the Marina on May 29 and the
Department of Fish and Wildlife planted
7502 lbs. of trout at the boat launch on
June 1,” reported Marcella Shoemaker of
the Rocky Mountain Recreation Company.
“Continue to cast out far and fish deep for
the trout.”
Sean McCann and 2 daughters from
Ireland caught 3 trout. Valtea Pettus of
Richmond bagged 4 trout weighing up to
2.5 lbs. while using PowerBait.
Paul Bisheri of San Francisco caught his
limit of rainbows, topped by a 3 pounder,
while soaking PowerBait. Olga and Dalia
of El Cerrito landed three trout while
fishing PowerBait at the tower.
Mika Valdovinos of San Francisco
caught his limit of rainbows weighing up
to 1.75 pounds while fishing chartreuse
PowerBait left of the pines.
Catfish are hitting chicken liver, large
nightcrawlers and Rat-L-Traps and
other lures in increasing numbers. Tsai
Industries planted 1,000 lbs. of catfish at
the boat launch on June 2, Shoemaker
noted.
If you want to hook crappie, target them
with Atomic Teasers and red worms.
The lake level is 309.4 feet in elevation
and the surface water temperature is 63.6
degrees.
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happy with the results when a muscular
striper puts a bend in your rod and your
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