Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 2724 Nov 9-23 | Page 21

VOL.37 • ISS. 24 TAHOE Nov 9 - 23, 2018 FRESHWATER cont. 21 Marina on the Nevada side of the lake. Regardless of where you depart from you’ll be fishing in comfort with a skipper that knows all the secrets for fooling Tahoe’s macks and trout. Mickey Daniels of Mickey’s Big Mack Charters has been successfully trolling Carnelian Bay. Mickey starts out trolling quickly in shallow water before Massive stripers are being caught in the West Delta by anglers fishing with Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon Sportfishing. slowing down This big fish gobbled live bait during a mid-October adventure. and working Photo courtesy of DRAGON SPORTFISHING, Pittsburg. progressively deeper. His clients are hooking (800) 564-6479. macks running up to 8 pounds. TRINITY RIVER/LAKE Few anglers are targeting black bass, Steelhead rainbow trout or king salmon at Trinity Lake. However, a couple of deer hunters Hitting Plugs, did some bass fishing and caught Spinners and and released some largemouths and Flies smallmouths to 2-1/2 pounds while split shotting with plastic worms on the WEAVERVILLE reservoir. – Steelhead are The releases to the Trinity River below starting to show in Lewiston Dam went down to 300 cfs on increasing numbers October 16, according to the Bureau of on the Trinity from Reclamation the mouth of the Trinity Lake is holding 1,472,738 acre North Fork to Del feet of water, 60 percent of capacity and Loma, as well as 91percent of average. upriver. - Dan Bacher “The drift boaters are catching more steelhead than the bank fishermen now,” said Tim WEST DELTA Brady of Brady’s Outdoors. “They are Red Hot Sturgeon Bite Erupts pulling plugs and in Upper Suisun Bay! tossing out spinners BRANNAN ISLAND - Very good action and Glo Bugs for the is on tap for West Delta anglers fishing steelies.” the lower reaches of the Sacramento and Fly fishermen San Joaquin Rivers and the upper end of are hooking the Suisun Bay with both sturgeon and striped steelhead while bass battling anglers. The sturgeon bite is drifting rubberlegs, better than the striper bite, but some very stoneflies, silver large stripers have been showing up. Hiltons and brindle Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon bugs in the riffles. The fly trolling bite has kicked off at Eagle Lake. Limits are the rule. This big ‘bow was landed on October 11. Sportfishing has been putting his clients The steelhead range Photo courtesy of BIG DADDY’S GUIDE SERVICE, Chester. on keeper sturgeon on a daily basis while from 2 to 7 pounds. soaking roe and eel below Pittsburg. Most of the salmon - While sturgeon have been the main are getting dark target for Mullins, he’s been spending as they get ready some time soaking large live and dead to spawn. Anglers baits for trophy stripers. Those trips are may monitor the resulting in stripers that run 15 to 30 quota status of pounds. open and closed Captain David Hammond kicked off the sections of the month of October with limit style striper Klamath and Trinity trolling action in the Sacramento and San rivers by calling the Joaquin. Since then he has transitioned information hotline at to sturgeon fishing because the sturgeon bite is so good. Hammond’s SPORTFISHING clients are landing est.1953 a combination of Lake Tahoe’s keeper and oversize Largest sturgeon, with many Fishing Fleet trips producing multiple year-round fishing big fish. Half & Full Day Bait anglers that want Charters a limit of schoolie size List price $93,259 single fisherman stripers are relying to large families & We supply everything ONE ONLY DEMO BOAT – $62,900 on shad and chicken you need to fish! private parties livers for their fish. 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