Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition 3815 July 5-19 2019 | Page 24
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FRESHWATER
July 5 - 19, 2019
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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RIO VISTA AREA
cont.
smallmouth bass in Miner, Sutter and
Steamboat sloughs and the Sacramento
River.
Johnny Tran of New Romeo’s Bait and
Tackle in Freeport said, “Smallmouth bass
are taken along the rocky banks with
live minnows or plastics on a drop-shot
rig along with deep-diving crankbaits or
3-inch Kei Tech’s swimbaits.
“Striped bass are still in the system,
and there are a lot of shakers around.
Sardines coated with garlic spray or
pile worms are working for the linesides
while catfish are found in the Sacramento
Deep Water Channel with chicken livers,
mackerel, or nightcrawlers. Bluegill are
thick in all of the back sloughs, and the
Delta Loop or Walnut Grove have been
good locations to soak red worms or
jumbo red worms.,” he said.
Captain Joey Gamez of Golden State
Sport Fishing continues to find good
sturgeon action in Montezuma Slough,
the Big Cut, and Little Cut for the few
anglers who still are interested in fighting
the diamondbacks. The sturgeon action
should last for some time with the high
water in the Sacramento-Delta and more
coming down.
The striped bass continue to wind down
as the linesides are heading for the cooler
waters of San Francisco Bay, but the
largemouth bass bite is getting ready to
bust wide open with the warmer water
temperatures.
Dan Mathisen of Dan Mathisen Outdoors
and Guide Service was out casting frogs
on Father’s Day, and he said, “I have been
throwing Sanford Bait’s Boom Boom frogs
and have released a dozen largemouths this
afternoon in the wind. I have been targeting
shade pockets, tule breaks, and the small
mats of grass. More grass will be forming
once the wind stops.”
- Dave Hurley
ROLLINS/SCOTTS FLAT
Bass Smash Topwater Baits!
COLFAX- “Yo-Zuri Banana Boat topwater
baits have been killing the bass at Rollins,”
related Jason Pleece of Meadow Vista.
“Over the past two weeks I’ve caught
double digit numbers of spots and
smallmouths over 2 pounds. This is some of
the best bass action I’ve had at Rollins and
I got them all on topwater baits. I generally
only get a handful of bass over 2 pounds
in any given year at Rollins, but it’s been
getting better and better every year,” said
Pleece.
Pleece reports that the spawn is largely
over and the bass are on the feed.
“The best fishing is happening in the
evening once the sun is off the water, but in
reality I’m getting fish on topwater baits all
day long if there is breeze. Overall, when
the sun is high crankbaits will draw more
strikes, but you need a fairly small bait.
The crankbait fish are definitely smaller on
average than the topwater fish. The bass
are holding on rocky structure that drops
into deep water. I haven’t been doing much
trout fishing over the past couple
weeks with all the great bass
action, but I have seen trollers
hooking trout while pulling worms
and spoons behind flashers,”
related Pleece.
There haven’t been many
reports coming out of Scotts Flat
Reservoir beyond that there has
been decent topwater action in
the marina at first light. Anglers
are utilizing small Rebel Pop R’s
to hook smallmouth bass to 2.5
pounds.
There have been no reports
of catfish showing, but that bite
should be kicking into gear at
any time now for anglers soaking
worms, liver and anchovies.
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mixed in.
- Dan Bach-
er
SAN PABLO
RESERVOIR
25 Lb. Channel
Catfish Leads
June Angling
Parade
EL SOBRANTE
– The warm weather
has stirred the big
channel catfish to
bite at San Pablo
Reservoir.
Just ask Joshua
Johnson of El
Sobrante, who caught
3 catfish, topped by
a huge fish weighing
25.28 pounds, while
using worms. The
three cats weighed
a total of 52.59
pounds, according to
Marcella Shoemaker
at the Rocky
Mountain Recreation
Company.
“Trout fishing
continues to
be good,” said
Shoemaker.
Captain Bobby of the Tahoe Sportfishing Team has been putting
“Continue to cast out his clients on some impressive mackinaw recently. This fish was
far and fish deep for landed on June 12.
the trout.”
Photo courtesy of TAHOE SPORTFISHING, South Lake Tahoe.
Daniel Bonilla of
Oakland landed
a 3.5 lb. trout using PowerBait at the
SANTA CLARA VALLEY
rock wall. Maxwell Kaneko of Berkeley
caught one trout using a Mega-Bass
LAKES
Haze-Dong Shad in Scow Canyon.
Anderson, Calero Reservoirs
Crappie are hitting on Atomic Tasers
and red worms, added Shoemaker.
Kick Out Largemouths
The lake level is 309.4 in elevation
COYOTE – Anderson and Calero
and the surface temperature is 66.9
reservoirs remain the top two spots for
degrees.
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SACRAMENTO – The shad
have moved up the Sacramento,
American, Feather and Yuba
rivers on their annual migration,
although some striped bass
are still being landed by patient
anglers fishing in the Sacramento
from Freeport to Verona.
Expect to hook some schoolies
in the 18 to 24 inch range, along
with a few bigger fish and plenty
of undersized stripers, while
fishing sardines, anchovies,
pileworms and jumbo minnows
at Freeport, Garcia Bend, Miller
Park, Discovery Park, the Elkhorn
Recreation Area and Verona.
However, most anglers are opting
out for the much better striper
fishing on San Francisco Bay.
The Port of Sacramento and
Sacramento Deepwater Channel
offer solid catfish action for
anglers tossing out mackerel,
chicken liver and nightcrawlers
early and late in the day and
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