Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3617 August 4-18 2017 | Page 3

Up-To-Date and Published Locally... By Sportsmen... For Sportsmen! Alpine Lake Map Feature MADE IN U.S.A See Page 14 Vol. 36 - ISS.17 Our 35th Year Since 1982 Aug 4 - 18, 2017 “The Magazine for West Coast Sportsmen!” Wild Rainbows, Mothballs, Peanut Brittle And Grumbling Outdoor Writers… S ome of my earliest and fondest child- hood memories are of visiting my grandfather’s house. In the garage, he had a collection of dried and varnished pike and muskie heads bristling with needle like teeth from his fishing trips to Minnesota. The wall of his back bed- room was home to a mounted antelope head. The hall closet smelled of mothballs and that’s where he stashed a big can of yummy peanut brittle. Yet to my young mind all of this was secondary. My main focus was the small wooden magazine rack that sat next to grandpa’s chair. That’s where he kept the outdoor magazines that were a source of limitless fascination for me. Grandpa was an avid angler and sometimes hunter. Coming from the Midwest he wasn’t a trout or striper guy like my dad and dad’s buddies. It was pike, which he called “northerns,” walleye, bass and perch that grandpa loved to pursue, but he loved reading about all types of fishing. Grandpa subscribed to the “Big Three” outdoor magazines of that era, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream and Sports Afield. In his maga- zine rack, there were always the most cur- rent issues along with several back issues. When Cal Kellogg and Robert Weese hit the Sacramento River with Every time I’d visit John Higley and Bill Adelman there were laughs and stories aplenty. As his house I’d stretch you can see here, Bill wore two hats on the trip. It was unclear whether out on the living room Adelman was making a fashion statement, fears large birds or just takes carpet and pour over sun protection really seriously! Photo by CAL KELLOGG, Fish Sniffer Staff. those magazines. Early on I’d just look driving me to become an outdoor writer. at the photos but when I started These days print media of all sorts is reading I’d do my best to read feeling sickly in the shadow of Facebook the articles by Jack O’Connor, and other electronic information outlets, Ted Trueblood, Gene Hill, Pat- most of the guys I grew up reading have rick F. McManus and of course long since passed over the divide, Sports H.G. Tapply and his column, Tap’s Tips… Afield is dead and both Outdoor Life and I didn’t know it at the time, but those Field & Stream are thin shadows of their sessions with grandpa’s magazines ignited former selves CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 a spark that ultimately shaped my future, WHAT’S HOT by Cal Kellogg (925) 428-1103 www.dragonsportfishing.com New Potential World Record Sevengill Shark Boated In San Francisco Bay C hris King of Los Molinos was fishing with John McGhee, owner of Legal Limit Sportfishing out of Berkeley, when he landed a pending new world record 342 lb. sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in San Francisco Bay on July 2, 2017. That fish would eclipse the 308 lb. current world record and the previous state record if 276 pounds set by Cliff Brewer in Humboldt Bay on October 17, 1996. King hooked the shark while fishing a salmon head in San Francisco Bay at 110 feet deep. He was using a 908 Black Diamond Phenix rod with a Boss Dauntless 400 reel with 65 lb. test extreme braided line. “It was a group of buddies that were on the trip,” said McGhee. “On that same trip, we also landed four limits of leopard sharks, along with keeping four other sevengills. We also lost two big sharks.” They were fishing South San Francisco Bay at 50 feet deep when the pending record fish hit. They hooked leopard sharks averaging 40 to 50 inches while using salmon and squid. “The big fish took 25 minutes to get in,” McGhee said After landing the shark, they had a hard time finding a certified scale that big. “We had to take it to the Recycle Zone to weigh it,” said McGhee. “We also took it to the CDFW and are now filling out the paperwork to get it designated as a state and IGFA record.” The fish featured a girth of 55 inches and length of 113 inches. “On a previous trip, we lost four fish and landed one sevengill over 300 pounds, but that big fish wasn’t quite as fat as this one,” he stated. McGhee fishes for shark and halibut in the bay, as well as going out for king salmon and albacore tuna. He also anchor fishes for sturgeon in Suisun Bay GONE FISHING by Dan Bacher John Mcgee (left) boated this massive 342 pound S.F. Bay sevengill shark this July. The fish was weighed on a certified scale and will likely be certified as a new world record. Photo courtesy of LEGAL LIMIT SPORTFISH- ING, East Bay. 35 Years Serving Sportsmen CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Did Interior Appointee Bernhardt Keep Lobbying For Westlands Water District? Brown Administration Approves Environmental Documents for Delta Tunnels See Page 22 SEE OUR NEW BAJA ROUNDUP SECTION ON PAGE 26-27 INSIDE Area Reports FRESHWATER REPORTS Almanor/Bucks Lakes - American River. ...............4 Lake Berryessa - Carson Pass..............................7 Clear Lake - Don Pedro Reservoir.................... 8-9 Eagle Lake - Lake Oroville.............................10-11 Lake Pardee - Santa Clara Valley Lakes....... 12-13 Shadow Cliffs Lake - Trinity Lakes.......................17 West Delta - Wildhorse Lake...............................18 SALTWATER REPORTS Berkeley/Emeryville - Half Moon Bay.............. 20-21 Monterey Bay - Peninsula Shoreline.............. 24-25 FEATURES Where...When...How... BAJA ROUNDUP...............................................26-27 BULLETIN BOARD................................................... 4 COOKIN’ YER CATCH - Paulette Kenyon............... 21 FISH SNIFFER HOW-TO: Cal Kellogg..................... 7 GO FOR IT: Staff....................................................... 5 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...................................... 3 MAP FEATURE: Dan Bacher.............................14-15 SALTY TIPS Steve “Hippo” Lau.............................. 26 SPOTLIGHT ON CONSERVATION - Dan Bacher.... 19 WHAT’S HOT SALTWATER - Cal Kellogg.............. 24 STAFF TACKLE What We’re Using Cal Kellogg - Fished for trout in Tehama County’s Deer Creek. Cal caught more than 25 brown, brook and rainbow trout from 4 inches to 2 pounds while fishing a No. 12 Humpy dry fly. Cal fished the fly using a Lamiglas GP 906 rod paired with a Pflueger 1495 fly reel. Cal linked the fly to his floating fly line via a Sportsman’s Warehouse 9 foot tapered leader. Paul Kneeland - fished Hell Hole Reservoir with Bridget Looney in the Fish Sniffer 21’ Rogue Jet Coastal. They caught limits of kokanee to 16 inches, and rainbow trout to 15 inches, using an 8’ Phenix Reaper composite trig- gerstick kokanee rod with a Team Daiwa Z ultra light reel loaded with 6 pound Yozuri TopKnot fluorocarbon line. They trolled pink and white Dick Nite spoons and pink, blue and white Sockeye Slammers with corn be- hind Vance’s cannonball flashers 50 to 60 feet deep off the Cannon Downriggers at 1.4 mph. Dan Bacher - fished for rain- bow trout on the North Fork of the Stanislaus River. He used a Berkley Ugly Stick GX2 6’ 6” medium action spinning rod, teamed up with a Shake- speare GX235 spinning reel filled with 6 lb. test P-Line CX Premium Flourocarbon Coat- ed Line. He found great rainbow trout action at dark while tosssing out 1/8 oz. Yakima Bait Rooster Tails in Brown Trout, Fire Tiger and Rainbow color patterns and 1/8 oz. gold and black Panther Martins.