16 June 26, 2020 VOL.39 • ISS. 14
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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FEATHER RIVER
Shad Top Angling Menu
YUBA CITY – American shad offer
anglers their best chance of hooking into
fish on the Feather River now.
“The shad are hitting up and down the
river,” reported Tony Mello at Johnson’s
Bait and Tackle. “Shanghai Bend is
producing the most consistent fishing for
the shad at this time.”
Successful fishermen are employing a
mixture of shad darts, Teeny Rounders
and shad flies for the hard-fighting
members of the herring family.
“A lot of people are coming in to buy
shad gear,” Mello noted. “A lot of people
are going out fishing that haven’t been
fishing in a long time.”
Shore fishermen are also picking up
a few stripers “here and there” on the
Dennis was working soft plastics at Collins
Lake this spring when this impressive catfish
came knocking.
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Feather, again at Shanghai Bend. Anglers
are tossing out top water lures such as
Pencil Poppers and Zara Spooks early
and late in the day and pileworms, blood
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- Dan Bacher
FOLSOM LAKE
Trollers Lay Into Kings,
Rainbows
SACRAMENTO – If you want to hook
king salmon in the 12 to 14 inch range,
along with an occasional larger Chinook to
4 pounds, give Folsom Lake a try now.
“The fish are hitting best on Speedy
Shiners and Goldeneyes or hoochies
behind dodgers at around 50 feet deep,”
said Uncle Larry Barnes at Sacramento
Tackle. “The kings are showing in the
main body near the dam and throughout
the North and South Forks of the
American.
Rainbows in the 12 to 20 inch class are
also on tap for anglers trolling the same
offerings throughout the lake.
One customer showed Barnes a photo
of a 10 lb. largemouth bass that he landed
while fishing with a spinning rod from
shore in the Brown’s Ravine area.
The bass fishing is starting to slow down
at Folsom as the fish move into their
summer pattern. “For maximum success,
I recommend using drop shot rigs and jigs
in 25 to 35 feet of water on outside points
around the lake,” advised Don Paganelli
of Paganelli’s Bass Fishing Experience.
“Top water fishing early and late in the day
hasn’t started yet, but should begin soon.”
Boat ramps at Granite Bay, Folsom
Point and Brown’s Ravine, Rattlesnake
Bar and Peninsula are open.
In addition, the following facilities
opened on June 24:
• California State Parks Folsom Sector
Office is open to the public.
• Beals Point Campground is open.
Peninsula Campground is open at limited
capacity to maintain social distancing
and avoid large group gatherings
starting June 22. For more information
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NOT be allowed.
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Juan and his fishing buddy rounded up an 11-pound striper and an 8-pound catfish while
soaking cut anchovies in the narrows at Lake Del Valle this spring.
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Brown’s Ravine including Folsom Lake
Marina, Peninsula and Mormon Island in
El Dorado County; Folsom Point, Negro
Bar, Willow Creek, Nimbus Flat, Park
Shore, Nimbus Dam Overlook and Shadow
Glen in Sacramento County. The day-use
facilities, restrooms and boat launching
facilities at these locations are open.
• Many of the concessions have begun
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- Dan Bacher
KLAMATH/TRINITY RIVERS
Fall Chinook Season Opens
on August 15
SACRAMENTO - Anglers will see
a reduced sportfishing quota for the
Klamath and Trinity Rivers this season,
due to low river returns in the fall of 2019
and with an ocean abundance estimate of
only 186,600 adult Klamath kings.
The California Fish and Game
Commission adopted bag and possession
limits for the Klamath Basin based on
a quota of 1,296 fall-run adults. The
Commission also adopted a size change
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within the Klamath River basin. The
size used to delineate adult fall Chinook
salmon, currently set at greater than 22
inches total length, has been changed to
greater than 23 inches total length.
In the past, the Department has used
a provisional standard of 55 centimeters
fork length to estimate the jack harvest of
KRFC during the season. This equates
to 21.7 inches when converted to fork
length, and 23.2 inches when converted
to total length. The new jack size will now
be consistent between what’s used for
recreational harvest and what’s used for
research and monitoring.
On the Klamath, the fall season begins
on Aug. 15 and closes Dec. 31. The daily
bag limit will be two Chinook salmon,
no more than one of which may be
greater than 23 inches, and a possession
limit of six, of which only three may be
greater than 23 inches. On the Lower
Klamath, from the Highway 96 bridge at
Weitchpec to the mouth, 648 adults will
be allowed for sport harvest. The section
above the 96 bridge at Weitchpec to
3,500 feet downstream of the Iron Gate
Dam will get 220 adults. The take of
salmon is prohibited from Iron Gate Dam
downstream to Weitchpec from Jan. 1
through Aug. 14.
The Spit Area (within 100 yards of the
channel through the sand spit formed
at the Klamath River mouth) will close
when 15 percent of the total Klamath
River Basin quota is taken downstream
of the Highway 101 bridge. In 2020, 194
adults can be harvested below the 101
bridge before the closure at the mouth is
implemented. The rest of the area below
Highway 101 (estuary) will remain open to
recreational fishing.
On the Trinity, where the fall season
begins Sept. 1 and closes Dec. 31., the
quota is set at 428 adults. The quota
will be split evenly; 214 adults for the
main stem Trinity downstream of the Old
Lewiston Bridge to the Highway 299 West
bridge at Cedar Flat and 214 adults for
the main stem Trinity downstream of the
Denny Road bridge at Hawkins Bar to the
confluence with the Klamath. The main
stem downstream of the Highway 299
Bridge at Cedar Flat to the Denny Road
Bridge in Hawkins Bar is closed to all
fishing September 1 through December
31. The take of salmon is prohibited from
the confluence of the South Fork Trinity
River downstream to the confluence of the
Klamath River from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31.
Once these quotas have been met, no
Chinook salmon greater than 23 inches in
length may be retained. Anglers may still
retain a limit of Chinook salmon under 23
inches in length.
Important Reminder: Spring-run Chinook
salmon fishing regulations will run from
July 1 through Aug. 14 on the Klamath
and through Aug. 31 on the Trinity. The
bag limit is one salmon per day, with two
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