Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 2723 Oct 26-Nov 9 | Page 24

22 Oct 26 - Nov 9, 2018 VOL.37 • ISS. 23 Freshwater Speedy Shiners at 30 to 40 feet deep in the main lake. Giuseppe Caminiti was also trolling the main lake at 30 ft. with a Ford Fender when he caught his limit of rainbow trout.  – Dan Bacher Freshwater reports: Continued from pg 19 with lures, as the water cools on the afterbay. Most anglers have focused on salmon fishing in the river, so hardly anybody has been targeting the landlocked kings on Lake Oroville. Anglers should troll shad or hoochies, tipped with anchovy strips, in the Bidwell Canyon area near the rockwall and the green bridge. The water level at Lake Oroville continues to drop. The water level has dropped to 707.38 feet above sea level. Oroville is holding 1,311,823 acre feet of water, 37 percent of capacity and 60 percent of average. – Dan Bacher Quarry Lakes Horseshoe Lake Fall Trout Plants Continue Pardee Lake Trout Action Heats Up as Season Nears End IONE – You don’t have much time left to fish Pardee this year, since the park will close to fishing on November 4, 2018. The lake management planted another 1,000 lbs. of rainbow trout ranging from 1-5 lbs. each on September 27. That is the final trout plant of the season, according to Sylva Rodgers of the Rocky Mountain Ryan Colligan fooled this impressive 15 pound striper while tossing a Rat-L-Trap in the Sacramento River in late September. Photo courtesy of RYAN COLLIGAN, Sacramento. Recreation Company. In addition, 1,000 lbs. of catfish ranging from 2-6 lbs. each were stocked on September 27. Robbie Dunham of Koke Machine Guide Service reported “crazy off the hook trout fishing” on a recent trolling adventure at Pardee. “Leslie, Shawn What’s Hot and I caught 15 trout to 4 pounds while trolling at 30 to 50 feet deep with Speedy Shiners near the mouth of the river,” he said. On his next trip, Dunham reported “pretty good” fishing. The two anglers fishing with him landed 10 nice rainbows by 1 p.m. while trolling PLEASANTON – The park district stocked 1200 pounds of trout in Horseshoe Lake the week of October 1 and another 1000 pounds in the lake the week of October 15, kicking off the fall/winter trout fishing season at the Quarry Lakes Recreation Area. The trout fishing will pick up as the water continues to cool and more plants go into the lake. Anglers can battle the trout while throwing PowerBait, worms and Kastmasters from shore and while trolling spoons, spinners and nightcrawlers from boats. “We only had one report come to the kiosk, but this time it was of a bass,” said Joe Sullivan of the East Bay Regional Park District. “Anthony Costello of Fremont reported that he caught and released a three and a quarter pound largemouth bass on a Senko and a two-pound largemouth using a chatter bait. He was fishing the backside of Horseshoe Lake from his kayak.” PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU Continued from page 1 be an excellent decision. For the next top of the run. It’s kind of like waiting three hours we caught fish after fish in line to ride a ride at an amusement on every pass. The grade of fish was park. Size 2 Octopus hooks tied on 12 very good with most in the 5-7 pound pound leader are standard fare. A Fish range and quite a few in the 8-10 Pill, Puff Ball or similar Styrofoam pound range. We started keeping track, float is skewered through the hook to and we realized that our tally was up add flotation. Roe is cut in nickel sized around 35+ fish for the day. Although pieces and cured bright red. Mad River it was impressive quantity wise, I was Drifters are the preferred weighting still a little put off by the lack of a real system. big fish. When we think of salmon, This year’s run on the Klamath looks giant fish so heavy the angler has to to be a very good one. Fishing has been bear hug them in the photo is what great all the way since back in July comes to mind. 5-8 pound fish are fun when trollers found exceptional action to pull on, but it’s the big ones that get in the estuary. The quota has been hit my heart pounding. My wishes were on both the lower river below Highway about to come true when Vance hooked 96 and the upper section from Highway into a big fish. This fish just fought 96 to Iron Gate Dam. There was still and fought, staying deep, bulldogging. plenty of quota remaining on the Trinity When we finally caught a big chrome at press time. Once the quota is hit, the flash from the depths, we knew it was retention of adult salmon is forbidden a good one. Another minute or so later, and only jacks under 22” may be there was a fat 17 pound buck in the retained. net. Vance’s trip was made. The bite continued until we ran out of roe. The day ended with around 40 salmon landed. The following day was a great day of fishing, although it didn’t quite measure up to the previous day. We landed 15 fish, with the bulk of them being quality adults in the 8-10 pound range. I put the cherry on top with a fat 22 pound hen. We caught all of our fish side drifting roe. Side drifting roe is 100 Rounds the go to method BOOK EARLY! Sporting Clays on the Klamath. 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Our first drift didn’t result in I quickly landed and shook off the fish. any fish, but our nickel sized clusters of Vance hooked another cookie cutter 17” roe would soon get eaten on the second jack. Every boat around us was also drift. hooking up multiple fish per pass. This One of the boats took off, which really didn’t excite me. I’ve caught a ton turned out to be a terrible decision. of these Klamath River micro jacks, and I would gladly trade 10 of them for one 15 pound adult. Be that as it may, the action was pretty much red hot. JW’s boat and every boat around us continued to hook fish on every pass. After we had caught a dozen or so fish, with maybe one of them achieving “adult” status over 22”, JW decided it was time for us to move on and hunt some bigger fish upstream. Usually leaving fish to find fish is not a good idea. We hit a couple of proven spots on our way upriver. We didn’t find any fish. We continued working our way upriver until we Vance was fishing the Klamath River with Mike McNeilly when he hit a riffle near hooked this handsome 17 pound chinook. a creek mouth. Photo by MIKE MCNEILLY, Fish Sniffer Staff. JW hooked into a nicer fish. This one was a typical Klamath River adult in Unbeknown to us, a huge school of fish had just entered the hole. On our the 9 pound range. This one was worthy of tagging and putting on ice. We caught second pass, we hooked a double. Both fish were landed, and they were a very a few more jacks near the creek mouth, respectable grade of large jacks that and then the action went dry. were technically adults in the 24” range. Finally, we wound up in a deep run We released them, which turned out to that had been producing over the last (530) 724-0552