Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3726 Dec 8-21 | страница 13

FRESHWATER
VOL.37 • ISS. 26
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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FOLSOM LAKE
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a lot of bass on spoons,” said Alan Fong
of the Fisherman’s Warehouse. “Spotted,
smallmouth and largemouth bass were
hitting Blade Runner spoons in the
morning dawn colors in the main body at
35 to 45 feet deep.”
Since the lake dropped so low, he hasn’t
heard any more reports from bass or trout
anglers.
As water temperatures cool, you can
expect the rainbow trout and king salmon
bite to perk up on Folsom. As the reservoir
undergoes its annual fall turn over, shore
fishing can be as good or even better than
fishing from a boat as the fish move into
the shallows to feed.
- Dan Bacher
Dec 7 - 21, 2018
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Rob Reimers of Rustic Rob’s Guide
Service reported landing bright salmon
on his latest two angling adventures at
Knights Landing. “Brad’s Cut Plugs keep
producing, with a little bloody tuna to
sweeten it up,” he reported.
Tim Boggs at Elkhorn Bait and Tackle
said stripers and catfish are also hitting.
Dan Curtell landed a 22 inch striper on a
live jumbo minnow, while other anglers
have been catching small channel cats
on G&S Dip Bait above the Highway 113
Bridge.”
Boggs noted that Curtell landed a 44
inch sturgeon in his boat while fishing
ghost shrimp in Suisun Bay off Pittsburg
during a recent catch and release derby.
“The best salmon fishing has been
at Miller Park and Garcia Bend on the
Sacramento. “It’s been off and on. Some
guys will report catching their one fish
limits by 10 am, while others will report
hooking nothing while using plugs and
spinners,” he noted.
KNIGHTS LANDING
Salmon, Stripers Offer Top
Prospects
RIO LINDA – Late fall Chinook salmon
are starting to hit in the Sacramento River
above and below Knights Landing.
LAFAYETTE RESERVOIR
Rainbow and Lightning Trout
Boated
PORTOLA – Kristy and
Mike Carpentier made
their first trip to Lafayette
Reservoir in almost a year
and found trout success.
“We were worried about
the smoke from the fires
but it wasn’t too bad,”
said Kristy. “Someone left
a couple of N95 masks
in the rental boat but we
didn’t need them. Thank
you, though!”
Mike and her hit the
water about 7 am. “We
had the whole lake mostly
to ourselves,” she stated.
“We picked up a nice Mt.
Lassen trout early and
then a double shortly
after.”
“Then Mike’s pole gets
slammed and I see gold!
And I net him up a nice
19” lightning trout and his
very first to boot!,” said
Kristy.
“It was our last fish of
the day, but so satisfying!.
We didn’t even know they
had planted them before
we got there.”
The bite slowed and
they cut out early. “We
had a sweet lunch at the
Walnut Creek yacht club
before heading home,”
she noted.
“It’s Just the start of the
trout bite at Lafayette!
Looking forward to going
back soon with our fishing
John Navarra was tossing a Senko at Lake Del Valle on
friends,” she concluded.
November 9 when this largemouth bass decided to strike.
- Dan Bacher
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OROVILLE LAKE/
THERMALITO AFTERBAY
Fishing Pressure Light With
Carr Fire
OROVILLE – Few anglers have been
fishing Lake Oroville in the past couple of
weeks, due to the dropping lake level and
the smoke from the devastating Carr Fire,
Lake Oroville continues to drop. The
water level has gone to 672.35 feet
above sea level. The reservoir is holding
1,055,806 acre feet of water, 30 percent of
capacity and 49 percent of average.
The only boat ramp available to
launching is Bidwell Canyon, with
three boat lanes and a dock available,
according to Sorenson.
Targetting the lake’s landlocked
Chinooks is probably not a great idea
until the spring when the fish will be of
catchable size. Anglers trying to catch
the large holdover salmon will be getting
hit constantly by the small fish now when
they troll through an area.
The California Department of Fish and
Wildlife stocked 139,000 chinook salmon
from the Feather River Fish Hatchery in
late September 2018 for Lake Oroville’s
popular landlocked salmon program,
according to Penny Crawshaw, hatchery
manager 2. “The fish are about 23 to the
pound, about 6 inches long,” she noted.
Few fishermen have been fishing for the
landlocked steelhead in the Thermalito
Afterbay lately. The Feather River
Fish Hatchery stocked over 231,682
steelhead in a variety of size ranges in the
winter and spring of 2018, according to
Crawshaw.
- Dan Bacher
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PYRAMID LAKE
Trollers Slam Big Cutthroat
Trout
SUTCLIFFE - November has been
full of big fish for trollers working U-20
Flatfish slowly along the bottom of the
lake. Lou Varela related a tremendous day
of fishing on a recent outing. Lou started
out the day with a 15.6 pound beautiful
male Lahontan Cutthroat. As almost an
afterthought he added, “Oh yeah, I also
got a 10.6.”
Lou is not alone. Most trollers are seeing
good scores and finding an occasional ten
plus pound fish to real spice up the action.
Working Flatfish along the bottom has
been very consistent, but trollers working
Lyman’s and Apex’s close to the bottom
are also sniping the occasional giant.
Meanwhile, shore fishing is still pretty
slow, which really isn’t too concerning.
Typically around Thanksgiving the
shore bite starts to pick up a little more.
However, now that Dago Bay is closed to
shore access, the hottest fall beach is no
longer an option. The last time Dago Bay
was open, it was by far the best beach
during the months of November and
December.
As the shore bite intensifies, just where
the fish will show up is anybody’s guess.
For whatever reason, the Nets Beaches
always seem to produce big fish. For the
time being, the best shore bite remains
at Blockhouse and Spider Point as both
of these beaches give anglers access to
nearshore deep water.
- Mike McNeilly
QUARRY LAKES
Anglers Bag Big, Bold
Rainbows
FREMONT - Trout are the main targets
of anglers fishing at Horseshoe Lake,
located in the Quarry Lakes Recreation
Area. The last CDFW plant featured
1000 pounds of rainbows, while the latest
EBRPD plant consisted of 1000 pounds
of trout.
Shawn R. from Foster City landed three
trout on Fisherman’s Row. He hooked one
on a nightcrawler, one on green pumpkin
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