Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3819 Aug 30-Sep 13 | Page 9

FRESHWATER VOL.38 • ISS. 19 7 Aug 30 - Sept 13, 2019 Catch & Release Fishing! Hook More & Bigger Fish With Flies... Sponsored by Kiene’s Fly Shop 916-483-1222 • www.Kienesflyshop.com Fur & Feather Delta Stripers By Alex Cady The California Delta is one of the most unique water ways to fish in California. In one day, on a fast boat, you can fish striped bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, carp and so much more. All these different option makes this one of my favorite place to fish. On a recent trip my dad and I had our eye set on the striped bass. So, we loaded up our 8 to 10 weights along with the boat and the rest of our gear to made the drive to Bethel Island and the California Delta. Our anticipation grew more and more just like a kid counting down the days to Christmas. Until we finally get poke our heads over the sea wall to get out first glimpse of Franks Tract on the California Delta. We dropped the boat in, rigged up and headed out as soon as possible. We checked out a couple of our new spots without much luck. Thankfully that quick evening session helped us eliminate a bunch of dead water. The next morning, we woke up to a cold morning and high hopes. We headed straight to my favorite spot on the main river. After the 20-minute run found what we were looking for…… Mark on our fish finder. Not just a few but an absolute ton for them. Our first casts got hammered right away. Unfortunately, we had found the shaker (sub-legal striper) strong hold. We stayed until we got our fill of shakers. We changed our game from fishing deep water current edges to shallow water flats with deep FRESHWATER REPORTS: CONTINUED FROM PG 4 BERRYESSA LAKE cont. night trip two weeks ago. Warmer water with dark of the moon were probably the reasons. Yet, bigger bass were biting,” he concluded. The surface water temperature is a very toasty 84 degrees. The kokanee salmon bite remains productive at Berryessa. “After a slow start, we finally got into them on my latest trip,” said Rich Crispi of TW Guide Service. “We ended up with 4 fish at 17+ and some fat 16 inchers. We had one almost at 2 lbs. We trolled at 55 to 95 feet deep with pink and silver, gold, and gold/ silver Apex lures and the blue and pink Drepex lures.” “The bite picked up in the afternoon,” he added. “The fish are still all over the main body from the Big Island to the Putah Ceeek bridge channel. We caught a total of 14 kokes and 4 rainbow trout. We also released 4 kokes .” - Dan Bacher BUCKS LAKE Mixed Bag Action Excites Anglers QUINCY- - “Beautiful Bucks Lake has been fishing really well this summer,” reports Captain Bryan Roccucci of Big Daddy’s Guide Service. “Due to the big winter snows access was later in May than normal, and many of our early season mackinaw trips With Pro Bass Fisherman were turned into trophy trout trips at Lake Learn Progressive Techniques for Bass Almanor.” On The Delta, Clear Lake & Berryessa “Once we were able to access Bucks, we ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME www.jcbassfishing.com found the lake full and the fish biting. Beautiful [phone] colored browns and 3811 [email protected] ‘bows along with some mackinaw, brookies and kokanee. Kokanee are the name of the game during the summers at Bucks and this year is no different. Bucks, with its enhanced 10 kokanee per person limit, has been kicking big numbers and [email protected] out exciting action on the feisty sockeyes,” said SUPERSTITIOUSLURES.COM Roccucci. 3809 JC BASS FISHING GUIDE SERVICE Jason Cordiale ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? 9550 Micron Ave. Suite B • Sacramento, CA weed/structure and drop offs. This was the ticket for our larger fish. Right away we were picking off solid 3 to 5-pound fish. This was not a numbers game. We only had a few shots at the spots with the right conditions then the fish would spook. We came up to a small point with weeds and a good current edge. We worked the edges hard for just a few short Stripers. Finally switched up to a Dustin’s Destoryer in Shad. I got hammered as soon as I made the first strip off the weed edge. It ended up being a good 8 to 9-pound fish. It was nice to finally get that solid fish to the boat. The rest of the time me moved back and forth from deep to shallow water. This made sure we kept getting a bend in the rod with a hand full of solid fish. One of the key was switching from weighted flies to unweighted flies as we fished different locations. Another key to weed was to fish big flies that moves a ton of water. This also weeded out the smaller fish, at times. The last key was to layer up. That run in the morning is really, really, really cold. It could be in the 30’s in the morning and 70s in the middle of the day. “When I say action, I mean multiple double, triple and even 4 way hookups, with the numbers bearing out 40 to 60 hookups by 8 or 9 am in the morning and usually early limits. In addition to the little salmon, the trout are biting as well in both the Bucks and Mill Creek arms of the lake with some smaller mackinaw showing but for the most part the big trophy lakers are generally quiet this time of year,” related Roccucci. “If this sounds like fun to you, we have some open dates for Bucks Lake during August and September, contact us to secure your dates and let’s go fishing,” Roccucci concluded. BULLARDS BAR/ ENGLEBRIGHT RESERVOIRS Kokanee Are Hitting Hoochies DOBBINS – The kokanee salmon are just starting to transition into spawning Continued on Pg 14 The KFBK OUTDOOR SHOW 3819 1 Rated Outdoor Radio Show for 26 years! # with your host Bob Simms Fishing • Hunting • Destinations Conservation • History Dedicated to the Northern California Outdoorsman BOB SIMMS Listen Every Saturday Morning from 5 am to 8am CALIFORNIA’S LONGEST RUNNING OUTDOOR TALK SHOW!