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FRESHWATER REPORTS :

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SANTA CLARA LAKES cont .

recommended both Uvas and Chesbro .

“ Mickey ’ s ( Clements ) daughter caught a five pound catfish at Chesbro last week using a night crawler . Uvas has been good for catfish later in the evenings ,” she related .

- Roland Aspiras

SAN PABLO RESERVOIR

Rainbow Trout , Black Bass Offer Top Fare

EL SOBRANTE – “ The trout bite is on ,” reported Marcella Shoemaker of the Rocky Mountain Recreation Company . “ People are catching fish from the boats and on the shoreline . Kastmasters , Power Eggs and chartreuse PowerBait are producing the best results . “

The CDFW planted 1,000 pounds of trout at the boat launch on May 15 . Mt . Lassen stocked 1,200 pounds of trout at the Marina on May 17 .

Matt Mira Bella of Novato caught 4 trout , topped by a 5 lb . rainbow , while using a brown plastic worm and garlic PowerBait at the Gazebo 1 . Glenn and Loren of Novato and Corte Madera landed a couple of trout in a secret spot . Manuel and Alfredo of Pinole bagged 10 trout using PowerBait in Scow Canyon .

Bass are also showing in the catches . Aaron Baba of El Sobrante caught a bass using a Kastmaster on the main recreation area shoreline .

The lake level is 312.0 feet above sea level and the surface temperature is 65.8 degrees .

SHADOW CLIFFS LAKE

Boaters Bag Limits Of Trout

LIVERMORE – “ Boaters have been doing well and are catching their limits and fishing from the shore has been good ,”

reported Joe Sullivan of the East Bay Regional Park District . “ Anglers have been catching limits between the 1st dock and the 2nd dock .”

For example , Richard Lim of Livermore caught his limit of trout fishing by the 1st dock while using PowerBait . Stan Nunes of Pleasanton also nailed his limit of trout , along with one bonus catfish , while fishing from his boat .

Mike Andrada of Pacifica caught two trout fishing off the Stanley dock while soaking PowerBait . Andrew Drake caught a three-pound trout fishing the eastside of Stanley shoreline with Powerbait .

The park district stocked Shadow Cliffs with 1000 pounds of rainbow trout the week of May 21 .

The ponds of the Arroyo Del Vallle are yielding solid catch and release action on largemouth bass . For example , G . Rezendez of Union City hooked and released eight bass while using Senkos from a float tube in the Arroyo .

The water temperature is 64 degrees , depending on depth . The water clarity varies between 10-15 feet .

Some massive lake trout have been on the chomp at Lake Tahoe . This fish weighed a little under 20 pounds and was caught on May 12 .

Photo courtesy of TAHOE TOPLINERS SPORT- FISHING , South Lake Tahoe .

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SHASTA / WHISKEYTOWN LAKES

Scattered Rainbows Blitz Spoons

REDDING - Trout , bass , kokanee … All these species and more are offering outstanding action for north valley anglers . Rainbows and bass are the main attraction at Shasta . For limits of kokanee , Whiskeytown is the spot .

At Shasta , the rainbows are spread out and feeding on shad . You ’ ll find them from the surface to 60 feet deep . The main body and lower ends of the major river arms are providing the best action , but you can find rainbows far up the arms too .

Spoons , both medium size and large , are hooking rainbows . Top choices include Cripplures , ½ ounce Hum Dingers and ¼ ounce Kastmasters . Small crankbaits and minnow plugs like Rapalas and Yo- Zuri L Minnows are also working .

For bass , soft plastics are the top offering for numbers , but if you want to hook large bass , crankbaits , topwater plugs and spinnerbaits are the way to go early , late and anytime there is wind chop . Most of the spawning has wrapped up at this point and the bass are in a post spawn feeding mode .

The average bass is a one pound spot , but spots and largemouths to 4 pounds have been common .

Lake Shasta is 15 feet from the top and dropping about 6 inches per day .

At Whiskeytown Reservoir , outstanding kokanee fishing for fish to 17 inches continues .

The salmon are holding in the top 30 feet of the water column . Early in the morning work near the surface . Once the sun is on the water the fish drop down .

Successful anglers are using a variety of offerings . Pink Apex Lures are working well , as are Wedding Ring Spinners teamed with pink or orange Sling Blade dodgers . Paulina Peak hammered dodgers and hoochies are producing great results too .

If you are itching to get some kokanee , Whiskeytown is giving up limits .

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STAMPEDE RESERVOIR

Kokanee Salmon Action Rages

TRUCKEE – If you want to catch kokanee salmon , it ’ s hard to beat the hot bite at Stampede Reservoir that knowledgeable guides and anglers are experiencing now .

“ We started trolling from the boat dock and never made it to where I was planning on fishing ,” said an excited James Netzel after his last fishing trip on Stampede . “ The fish were absolutely everywhere . The five anglers fishing with me kept 25 fish between 13