Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3717 Aug 3-17, 2018 | Page 3

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Vol. 37 - ISS.17
Our
36th
Year
Since 1982
August 3 - 17, 2018
“The Magazine for West Coast Sportsmen!”
EPIC Salmon Fishing aboard
the FV Bad Influence
O
yster Point - July 15th, 2018.
Frequently I’m behind my
computer or mobile device,
interacting with fans and
followers on social media
through the Facebook and
Instagram pages.
With the fishing on fire,
we’re getting countless
reports and photos of
beautiful salmon daily from
stoked anglers and lady
anglers - we appreciate all of you that
communicate and interact with us on a
daily basis.
But seeing all the epic reports, I
found myself wanting so bad to hop
onto a boat and get in on the action.
Don’t get me wrong - I love our fans
and followers and seeing all the great
catching, but I do like to fish and catch
fish too!
Somehow or someway, the stars
aligned last week. Shawn Chen Flading
aka “Chenzo” of South San Francisco
personally threw out an invite to go.
“Take along a friend! Just get me for
fuel! It’s all good bro!” he
said in a text.
Boy, was I
excited.
I brought my
longtime friend
Brian Arimoto,
who had never
fished for ocean
salmon before.
Also joining
us was Chen’s
Shawn “Chenzo” Flading (L) and the Fish Sniffer’s Roland Aspiras
friend, Noel Spence, also
show off a quartet of big beautiful king salmon that they landed
new to fishing for salmon. while trolling off Stinson Beach during a recent outing.
Photo by ROLAND ASPIRAS, Fish Sniffer Staff.
Our vessel for the day
was the beautiful FV Bad
instructed.
Influence, a hard-top Hewescraft
Straight bait behind flashers on both
captained by Chenzo.
downriggers and 2.5 pound balls was
After punching through choppy
Chenzo’s game plan for the day.
waters under the Golden Gate and the
“Fish on! We’ve got double! We’ve
Potato Patch, we arrived in front of
Stinson Beach in manageable winds and got doubleeeeee,” he screamed.
Well, that didn’t take long. I
swell.
looked back from the wheel to see
My task for the day was to assist
complete chaos with both Brian and
Chenzo with both the deck and the
Noel hanging on for dear life, drags
wheel. “Keep us at 2.9 to 3.5 miles
an hour and around 80 feet deep,” he
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GONE
FISHING
by
Roland
Aspiras
River Salmon Season Starts With Surprisingly Good Fishing
S
almon season on the Sacramento River
opened with surprisingly productive
fishing on July 16. Guides and
experienced anglers reported
the top Chinook action at two
locations – the mouth of the
American at Discovery Park in
downtown Sacramento and the
upper section of the river below
Red Bluff.
The salmon season opened
as trollers and some moochers
continue to hook limits of
salmon while trolling off Half
Moon Bay and outside of the
Golden Gate. Anglers fishing
out of Bodega Bay are landing
limits many days also.
Fishing on the Sacramento’s
two major tributaries, the
Feather and American rivers, was tougher,
though anglers landed a few quality fish
there also.
Kirk Portocarrero of https://www.
sacriverguide.com reported top-notch fishing
on opening day out of Discovery Park.
“The four anglers fishing with me landed
4 salmon ranging from 12 to 18 pounds. We
trolled Silvertron spinners below the mouth
of the American,” he said.
Portocarrero also reported
two quality salmon in the boat
on the morning of July 17.
Dennis Pfanner at
Sacramento Pro Tackle rated
the salmon fishing in downtown
Sacramento as “7-1/2 on a scale
of 1 to 10.“
“Two of my customers
reported catching two salmon
up to 16 pounds, with around
25 to 30 salmon taken by the
fleet of over 20 boats,” said
Pfanner. “Most anglers hooked
the fish while trolling Kwikfish,
Flatfish and spinners.”
At press time, anglers were
continuing to hook some big,
bright salmon on the Sacramento from
Discovery Park to Garcia while trolling
spinners and plugs.
Further downriver at Vieira’s Resort
in Isleton, slow fishing was reported on
opening day, with two salmon landed.
Robert Weese of Northern California
WHAT’S
HOT
[phone] www.dragonsportfishing.com
This young lady took an early season salmon
fishing trip with Robert Weese and scored this
dandy Sacramento River king.
Photo courtesy of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
GUIDE SERVICE, Redding.
36 Years
Serving
Sportsmen
by
Dan Bacher
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Resnicks, Corporate Agri-
business Fund Jerry Meral’s
Prop. 3 Water Bond Campaign
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Special Section
Baja Roundup
PG 30-31
INSIDE
Area Reports
FRESHWATER REPORTS
Almanor - Lake Amador..........................................4
American Basin - Camanche Lake.........................7
Carson Pass Region - Colusa/Knights Landing ....9
Contra Loma - East Delta.................................... 10
Eastern Sierra - Klamath River............................ 13
Los Vaqueros Reservoir - Rio Vista................ 14-15
Rollins/Scotts Flat - Tahoe/Donner Lakes...... 18-19
West Delta - Western Nevada............................. 21
SALTWATER REPORTS
Berkeley - Half Moon Bay.....................................28
Monterey - Peninsula Shoreline...........................29
FEATURES
Where...When...How...
SALT WATER JOURNAL..................................22-27
BAJA ROUNDUP...............................................30-31
BASS FISHING SPOTLIGHT: Jay Yelas.................... 12
BULLETIN BOARD................................................... 4
FISH SNIFFER HOW-TO: Cal Kellogg..................... 5
GO FOR IT: Staff....................................................... 8
KAYAK FISHING SPOTLIGHT: Roland Aspiras......... 6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...................................... 3
MAP FEATURE: Dan Bacher.............................16-17
SALTY TIPS: Steve “Hippo” Lau............................. 30
SPOTLIGHT ON CONSERVATION: Dan Bacher..... 20
WHAT’S HOT SALTWATER: Cal Kellogg ............... 27
STAFF
TACKLE
What We’re Using
Cal Kellogg - fished the Old
River for smallmouth bass.
For tossing small Yo-Zuri
crankbaits, Cal chose a
Cousins GDS 701 spinning
rod. The rod was balanced with an Abu Garcia
Cardinal SX 30 spinning reel spooled with 8
pound moss green Trilene Big Game line. Cal
caught more than 25 bass while fishing from
his 14 foot Hobie Pro Angler kayak.
Paul Kneeland - fished
Bullards Bar Reservoir with
Bridget Looney of Colfax in
the Fish Sniffer 21’ Rogue Jet
Coastal. They caught limits
of Kokanee to 14 inches using an 8’ Phenix
Reaper composite triggerstick kokanee rod
with a Team Daiwa Z ultra light reel loaded
with 6 pound Yozuri TopKnot fluorocarbon line.
They trolled orange/white Dick Nite spoons and
Uncle Larry’s brass/orange spinners behind
orange and red Vance’s and Paulina Peak
dodgers off the Canon Downriggers 45 to 65
feet deep at 1.4 mph.
Dan Bacher - fished for
rainbow trout at Alpine Lake.
He used a Berkley Ugly Stick
GX2 6’ 6” medium action
spinning rod, teamed up with a
Shakespeare GX235 spinning reel filled with
6 lb. test P-Line CX Premium Flourocarbon
Coated Line. He fished with chartreuse Berkley
PowerBait, 1/8 oz. gold and black Panther
Martins and 2/5 oz. gold/red stripe Little Cleos.