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there has been an explosion of pleasure boaters, swimmers and campers along the lake’ s shores. Gone are the ladders and a fly rods, and in their place are beach towels and ski boats.

For the persistent few still fishing the lake there has been a decent bite, but not many big fish are showing in the catches. This is not uncommon for this time of year. The bulk of the action is coming from 2-5 pound Summit Lake Cutthroat trying to put weight back on after the spawn. A lot of these fish are hanging in the Warrior’ s to Monument area. A lot of these fish are fish trucked to this area after being evicted from the fish ladder in Sutcliffe during tribal spawning operations.

A good plan is to drag Flatfish along the bottom in a slow and methodical manner. Downriggers aren’ t even necessary. A standard three way swivel with a 1’ dropper to a 4 ounce sinker and a 4’ leader to a U-20 Flatfish is a hard combo to beat. It is imperative to check the plug for moss and other debris since it will be down on the bottom like a pig looking for a truffle.

There isn’ t much else going on in the Western Great Basin at this time. All the small streams that drain the Carson Range are flowing extremely high as are all the major rivers. The big desert reservoirs, Lahontan and Rye Patch, are both just about full and have been releasing a lot of water for some time.

Rye Patch suffered a major fish kill about 18 months ago, so there are not a lot of mature wipers, walleyes or catfish available.

Lahontan was drawn down to only about 5,000 acre-feet of water during the peak of the drought. Lahontan holds 295,000 acre feet when at capacity, so it is likely that few mature fish survived in that puddle as well.

-by Mike McNeilly

QUARRY LAKES

Rainbow Trout Dominate Early Summer Sport

FREMONT- Summer channel catfish plants have begun at Horseshoe Lake, but trout continue to provide the most consistent action.

The East Bay Regional District stocked 750 pounds of channel cats in Horseshoe the week of June 12, but hasn’ t planted any trout over the past couple of weeks.

Expect the trout to go into deeper water with the arrival of warmer weather. Fishermen are using Mice Tails, Panther Martins, Power Eggs and Power Worms to fool the rainbows.

Duke Hoang of Fremont caught 4 trout in the back of Horseshoe Lake while using Mice Tails from his rowboat. The rainbows weighed 4.5 lbs, 4 lbs, 3.5 lbs, and 2.5 lbs.

Leon Schmidt of Fremont caught three trout in the back of Horseshoe Lake trolling with a Panther Martin lure from a rowboat. They weighed 3 lbs, 2 lbs, and 2 lbs.

Matt Agleham of Milpitas caught 4 trout on Fishermen’ s Row using Power Eggs and Power Worms. The largest was 5 lbs 15oz.

Note that the use of lead fishing tackle is prohibited at Quarry Lakes. You can exchange lead tackle at the kiosk in a“ 1 for 1” trade for stainless steel weights.

REDDING / RED BLUFF

Wild Trout Bite Described As“ Incredible”!

REDDING-“ We are catching rainbows and steelhead in incredible numbers,” reported Kirk Portocarrero of SacRiverGuide. Com.“ Some of our trips are producing 30 fish a day. This past weekend the action was non-stop in the stretch from Redding

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to Anderson. We had several double hookups.”

“ We’ ve been running both fly fishing trips and spinning gear trips. Fly guys are hooking up on brown rubber legs and egg imitations. Spin anglers are scoring while side drifting Corkies. Green has been the best color,” tipped Portocarrero.

Currently the river is flowing at 12,000 cfs and dropping. There is a small section of river that is closed above the Highway 44 Bridge. The closure will remain in place until August 1. This still leaves nearly 40 miles of world class wild trout water open to fishing throughout the summer.

Mike Bogue of Mike Bogue’ s Guide Service works the river with conventional tackle, splitting his time between pulling plugs and drifting Pautzke Salmon Eggs and Pautzke cured roe.

Robert Weese is also available for wild trout trips on the Sacramento. Weese likes to mix things up, pulling plugs and side drifting with various baits.

If you’ d like to experience conventional tackle trout action on the Sacramento give Mike Bogue a call at( 530) 246-8457. For spin or fly fishing, Captain Kirk Portocarrero is available and can be reached at( 530) 221-6151. Robert Weese of Northern California Guide Service fishes with either spinning gear or fly gear. His cricket drifting trips often produce epic results. Robert can be contacted at( 530) 755-7196.

RIO VISTA

Trollers Hit Sacramento, San Joaquin For Summer Stripers

RIO VISTA- Striped bass fishing saw an uptick in interest with fish being landed in various areas across the region, while sturgeon fishing interest continues to wane.

Anglers trolling and drifting live bait found striped bass on the Old Sacramento River and on the the San Joaquin River, according to Craig Kamikawa at Fisherman’ s Warehouse in Sacramento.

“ The cool thing is there’ s isn’ t a whole lot of guys going for them down there wih everyone either fishing up north on the bay. Trolling

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Mark Adams of San Jose caught this impressive catfish while fishing the Narrows at Lake Del Valle on May 15.

Photo courtesy of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN RECREATION COMPANY, Lake Del Valle. with( P-line) predators or drifting jumbo minnows has been working,” he tipped.

“ There’ s been a mixture of spawned out fish and surprisingly some spawners are being caught too,” he added.

Sturgeon fishing continued to pique the interest of die-hard anglers.

“ There’ s still a few guys sneaking out when the wind is down to either Sherman or up north around Cache, Liberty Cut. The guys that are doing it are using eel or roe,” he tipped by Roland Aspiras

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ROLLINS / SCOTTS FLAT LAKES

Trout And Bass Cooperate As Sun Brings Out Boaters

COLFAX- Bass fishing is pretty good at both Rollins and Scotts Flat Lakes and a fair amount of trout are on the bite at Rollins. With warm

weather and Memorial Day holiday in the rearview, there are now plenty of skiers and recreational boaters on the water, but the increased boat traffic isn’ t impacting the fishing.

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