Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3707 March 16-30, 2018 | Page 25

March 16 - 30, 2018 FRESHWATER VOL.37 • ISS. 07 FRESHWATER REPORTS: Come visit CONTINUED FROM PG 29 LAKE SHASTA WEST DELTA at Lakehead on the Sacramento River arm Huge Stripers Battle Anglers PITTSBURG - “The striper fishing is absolutely incredible right now in terms of the size of the fish we’ve been getting,” exclaimed Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon Sportfishing. “Over the past week or so we’ve boated 3 bass over 40 pounds and 8 fish over 30 pounds.” “We’ve been running combo sturgeon and striper trips. The big bass have been coming on live baits. We are catching from 2 to 5 bass per trip, but all of them are big,” said Mullins. “On our last sturgeon trip we got slammed by wind and got skunked, but our trip before that was a lot better. We got three keepers and one oversize fish while using a combination of eel, grass shrimp and roe. If you are interested in big fish, now is the time to come out and fish with us because we are on some monsters,” Mullins concluded. Captain David Hammond of Delta Pro Fishing is offering both stripers trolling trips and sturgeon trips, but he has been Larry Boone enjoyed the thrill of a lifetime on February 14 when he landed this incredible 40 pound West Delta striper. Photo courtesy of DRAGON SPORTFISHING, Pittsburg. focused on striper fishing recently. “It’s a day to day deal right now. We’ve had some really good trips trolling Yo-Zuris and we’ve had some slower trips too. 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(530)962-3050 3705 Fried Is Fabulous ric sure had some hair raising adventures this month; but, he’ll be taking me fishing very soon he assured me. Watching the news, it saddens me to see how that young shooter of children in Florida was able to attain all those hideous weapons and heaps of ammo without any sort of genuine gate keeping or oversight. Contrast that with the way the government micro-manages hunters and their ammo. I know that all states have Hunter Safety Cours- es for hunting. All states require people who drive cars to take a driving test with another person and a written test. It seems that if there were some sort of gate keeper – like a gun safety/civilian personal responsibility course, whatever.. for gun users who aren’t hunters, it might’ve provided this young man with at least one more door to pass through, knowledgeable and caring people to talk to, and one more chance to change his mind. Our president says we need to go around looking at people who are mentally unstable. Having worked in a group that opposed the USAPATRIOT Act, I think the government deciding who is mentally stable and who isn’t is a very slippery slope. Hopefully, the issue won’t be used to divide Americans (like it usually does). I get sick of politi- cians using these tragedies to get votes. I hope we can start making changes where they need changing in a way that doesn’t take us down a worse road. Anyway, here’s two new ways that I fried fish this month. 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