Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3607 March 17 -31, 2017 | Page 3

Up-To-Date and Published Locally... By Sportsmen... For Sportsmen! Feather River Map Feature MADE IN U.S.A. See Page 16 VOL. 36 - ISS. 07 r Ou th 35 Year Since 1982 March 17 - 31, 2017 “The Magazine For West Coast Sportsmen!” Fresh Leadership Points To Positive Future For Auburn State Recreation Area L iving in and around the town of Auburn for the past 20 plus years, I’ve been a regular visitor to the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area and an almost daily visitor to the Auburn State Recreation Area. I’ve done a good deal of fishing at Folsom Lake and consider it my “home lake.” Likewise, I’ve spend countless hours hiking, hunting, prospecting and fishing in the Auburn SRA and consider its canyons to be my “home woods”. These adjoining recreation areas are managed by the California State Parks, yet the land that makes up these areas is largely federal, owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. This situation makes for a sometimes-convoluted mix of “management soup”. The Folsom SRA is built around Folsom Dam and the reservoir. The plan was the same for the Auburn SRA. There was to be a dam built across the American River between the headwaters of Folsom Lake and the town of Auburn, creating “Lake Auburn.” The dam project was started in the 1960’s, but was derailed when a fault was discovered running through the proposed dam site. There have been on again off again plans to build the dam ever since the project was stopped and the Bureau of Reclamation has maintained GONE FISHING by Cal Kellogg Much of the American River’s Middle Fork and North Forks are within the Auburn State Recreation Area. These rivers offer fantastic fishing for trout and bass, but road closures often make accessing these rivers an issue for anyone that isn’t a robust hiker. Photo by GENA RUSH, Fish Sniffer Staff. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Fishing Spinners for Trout: Part 1 attracting hungry fish, spinner vibration is often credited as a key factor in spinner appeal. And although some blade styles Hello Fish Sniffers, in this issue and produce more noise than others, all next issue we have the profound pleasure spinners generate underwater noise of presenting this two-part guide to fishing created by the blade spinning around spinners for trout from Buzz Ramsey. the metal shaft as your spinner is moved Buzz is a legendary northwest steelhead, through the water column. salmon and trout angler. When it comes to Weighted spinners, with casting weight cold water fishing Buzz has done it all. In built in to their design, can be fished addition to being a talented outdoor writer, any number of ways with the “cast-and- Buzz has long served as a lure designer and retrieve,” “troll,” and “jig” representing the tester for some of the biggest trout and salmon three major methods. tackle suppliers in the nation, including Yakima Bait, Berkley and Luhr Jensen. CAST AND RETRIEVE: LAKES Without further chatter from me, here are Without a doubt, the most popular way Buzz’s thoughts on fishing spinners. Tune to fish a spinner for trout is to employ in to our next issue for the conclusion of this the cast-and-retrieve method. It’s so easy, hard-hitting article! just tie a spinner on the end of your line, ~Cal Kellogg cast into a nearby body of water and reel, retrieve your spinner back to you. TROUT AND SPINNERS In lakes, most anglers searching for Trout are attracted to spinners due trout, cast-and-retrieve spinners while to their size, color, flash, and vibration. While the above factors all play a role in CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 35 Years Serving Sportsmen BY BUZZ RAMSEY FOR THE FISH SNIFFER Original Rooster Tail Spinners like the one shown here have been tempting trout for decades. Photo curtesy of BUZZ RAMSEY, Yakima Bait. Salmon Fishery Information Meeting Unveils Prospects For 2017 Season See Page 23 SEE OUR NEW BAJA ROUNDUP SECTION ON PAGES 30 INSIDE Area Reports FRESHWATER REPORTS Lake Almanor to East & South Delta.................... 8-9 Eastern Sierra to Mother Lode Roundup.................10 Mother Lode Roundup............................................20 Lake Oroville to Lake Tahoe..............................24-25 Trinity River & Lake to Wild Horse Reservoir..........26 SALTWATER REPORTS Berkeley & Emeryville to Peninsula Shoreline..................................... 28-29 FE ATURES Where...When...How... BAJA ROUNDUP.................................................30 BULLETIN BOARD.................................................7 COOKIN' YER CATCH Paulette..............................31 FISH SNIFFER HOW-TO: Cal Kellogg......................12 GO FOR IT: Staff....................................................3 LETTER S TO THE EDITOR........................................4 MAP FEATURE: Dan Bacher...........................16-17 NORCAL TROUT ANGLERS CHALLENGE . .................... ................................................ 5-7, 13-15, 18-19 PENN TIP OF THE WEEK ......................................31 SALTY TIPS Steve “Hippo” Lau............................26 SPOTLIGHT ON CONSERVATION Bacher................23 WHAT’S HOT – SALTWATER: Cal Kellogg...............27 STA F F TACK LE What We’re Using Paul Kneeland – fished Lake Camanche with Bridget Looney in the Fish Sniffer 21’ Rogue Jet Coastal. They caught rainbow trout to 3 ½ pounds using a Cousins 7’6” ultra light graphite downrigger rod with a Abu Garcia Revo MGX Extreme level wind reel loaded with 8 lb test Berkley Vanish fluorocarbon line. He trolled brass/red and German brown color Speedy Shiner spoons off the Canon Downriggers 5 to 11 feet deep at 2.5 mph. Dan Bacher – bank fished for rainbow trout at San Pablo Reservoir. Bacher used a Lamiglas 7 foot G1214 spinning rod, teamed with an Abu Garcia Soron SX40 reel filled with 6 lb. test P-Line Premium. He fished with Berkley chartreuse glitter and Captain American PowerBait, along with Zeke’s Sierra Gold Floating Trout Bait, on #14 gold Eagle Claw hooks rigged with 4 lb. test Berkley Trilene 100 percent Fluorocarbon leaders on sliding sinker set-ups. Cal Kellogg – fished Camanche Reservoir for rainbow trout. Cal utilized a 7’ Fenwick HMG 70 ML rod rated for 4 to 10 pound test matched with an Abu Garcia Cardinal spinning reel. The reel was filled with 6 pound Trilene and a 6 lb. moss green Big Game line. On the business end, Cal employed an 8 lb test Vanish fluorocarbon leader. Cal caught 3 trout to 14 inches while using Kastmasters and Atlas Mike’s Sierra Gold.