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Nate Kelsch of Big Nate ’ s Guide Service after his most recent trip . “ Pete , his daughter Sophie , and good friend Joe put the hammer on the fish , scoring limits of trout with some donkeys in the mix , a gorgeous king salmon , and a big slab of a crappie rather fast this morning .” “ We also released 9 dinks , lost 10 to big acrobatic jumps , and had another 8 that popped off before we could get to the rod !,” he emphasized . “ That ’ s 44 takedowns ; it doesn ’ t get much better than that . We power trolled spoons between 3 and 4 mph and changed speeds a lot to get bit . Our morning started all by ourselves , but the ‘ mini ’ fleet found us and the bite slowed , so we made a little move and handled business .” Lake Berryessa is holding 1,546,765 acre feet of water , 97 percent of capacity and 115 percent of average .

- Dan Bacher

CAMANCHE LAKE

Trollers Battle Big , Bold ‘ Bows

BURSON - While anglers have been concentrating on other lakes lately for trout , the trout fishing has been very good at Lake Camanche . Cal Kellogg of fishhuntshoot . com found top-notch fishing on his most recent fishing adventure to the Mother Lode Reservoir while fishing from a small skiff . “ I caught and released at least

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15 rainbow trout weighing up to 3-1 / 2 pounds in the main body and the river arm ,” said Kellogg . “ The surface water temperature was 68 degrees in the river arm . The best depth was from 25 to 35 feet deep . I power trolled shad Trigger spoons at 2-1 / 2 to 3-1 / 2 mph . The fish were belching up threadfin shad when I got them in the boat . “ “ The day started with a double hook-up and the action was pretty steady all day long . I saw about 3 or four trout boats out on the lake ,” he revealed . This May over 4,000 Fingerling Florida Strain Largemouth Bass were planted at Lake Camanche . “ We do a plant every year , and these bass grow to be huge ,” the Lake Camanche Recreation Company reported . “ We saw fish jumping all day on the water . There is great fishing is to be had here at Lake Camanche .” Camanche Lake is holding 388,287 acre feet of water , 93 percent of capacity and 136 percent of average .

- Dan Bacher

COLLINS LAKE

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OREGON HOUSE - Trout held out right through the end of April but with surface temperatures on the rise we accelerated our schedule and finished planting in the first week of May . At the same time trout started moving to deeper water . It took a week or so for things to stabilize , and now you can catch down below 15 ft . There ’ s very little shore activity unless you ’ re talking about bass . While I don ’ t have a lot of bass pictures to share , word is that they are

Denise Loo and Dave Clark hold up some nice crappie that they caught on Lake Berryessa while using 1 / 16oz jighead with a 2.5 ” Sudden Impact Trout Minnow and a Bobby Garland Shad .

Photo Courtesy of Alan Fong Outdoors in the last days of pre-spawn , and if you know where to look , many have already started making beds . We ’ re looking forward to catfish and a great warm-water season . For now though we ’ re going to review some of the trout caught

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