Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3715 July 6-20 2018 | Page 25

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where the fish are hanging out , adjust your weight / indicator to make this happen on your drift ,” tipped Reid .

“ Virginia Lakes have been fishing excellent this week , lots of nice fish from float tubers as well as shore anglers . The fly anglers seem to have been doing the best with twin lakes specials , soft hackles , zug bugs , sheep creek specials and matukas . Bait anglers are catching fish with pinched crawlers , night crawlers and Mice Tails . Lure anglers are using Thomas Buouyants , Kastmasters and Jakes Spin-A- Lures ,” said Reid .

“ Bridgeport Reservoir is still fishing pretty well from boats but the shore fishing has slowed down quite a bit . This is pretty typical for Bridgeport , as the water warms up the fish tend to congregate near the inlets as opposed to near the shore fishing areas . The trolling as well as bait fishing has been good , bait anglers are anchoring up off of Rainbow Point as well as in various spots out in the middle . Trolling has been good in Buckeye Bay in around 15 or so feet of water ,” advised Reid .

FEATHER RIVER

Shad on Tap As Anglers Gear Up for Salmon Opener

YUBA CITY – Shad are still bending anglers ’ rods on the Feather River as fishermen gear up for the salmon season opener , although the shad bite has slowed down from the hot pace of a month ago .

“ The fishing is slow at this time , although a school of shad that moved into river resulted in good fishing for anglers at Beer Can Beach ,” said Tim Boggs of Elkhorn Outdoors . “ Anglers are doing best while fishing with 1 inch pink grubs on their jigheads .”

Combined releases into the Feather River below the Thermalito Afterbay Outlet are only 1050 cfs at this time .

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FOLSOM LAKE

Boaters Land Rainbows & Kings

SACRAMENTO – After a temporary slow down , the rainbow trout and king salmon action has bounced back at Folsom Lake .

“ Two customers of mine fished several times at Folsom Lake ,” said Craig Newton at Willfish Tackle . “ They bagged limits of rainbows , with some kings mixed in . The trolled with Speedy Shiners with black and red dodgers .” They targeted

Dan took a trip to New Melones Reservoir this June and landed several fish including this huge rainbow trout .

Photo courtesy of GOLD COUNTRY SPORTFISHING , Oakdale .

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two areas – the North Fork from the Peninsula to the floating bathrooms and the mouth of the South Fork .

“ The rainbows ranged from 14 to 20 inches long , while the kings were in the 14 to 16 inch class ,” he said . “ The best depth was around 45 feet deep .”

The black bass are now in their summer pattern at Folsom . Toss out top water lures and glide baits early and late in the day and fish with drop shot rigs and Senkos off the points during the day . A mixture of spotted , smallmouth and largemouth bass are available for anglers ,

Folsom Lake is holding 893,574 acre feet of water , 91 percent of capacity and 110 percent of capacity . The lake is 458.39 feet in elevation .

- Dan Bacher

LOS VAQUEROS RESERVOIR

Trout Action on Upswing

BYRON – Rainbow trout fishing has picked up at Los Vaqueros Reservoir again , thanks to a recent plant of 2,000 pounds of rainbows .

“ John Abenoja and his family landed 40 pounds of rainbow trout while fishing Power Bait

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in Cowboy Cove ,” said Rony Garber at the Los Vaqueros Marina . ” That ’ s a total of 24 trout for the anglers .”

Anglers are still hooking lots of hefty channel catfish in the wake of a a 5,000 pound Mount Lassen channel catfish plant in late May .

Mackerel , chicken liver and anchovies are the best choices of bait for the catfish . Fishermen are experiencing the top action near the marina and in the South Cove .

Striped bass action remains productive . Most of the fish are either shakers or small keepers in the 18 to 22 inch range . The South Cove continues to be the most active area for anglers fishing anchovies and chicken liver .

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NEW MELONES LAKE

Boaters Land Rainbows , Browns & Kokanee

ANGELS CAMP – Anglers on New Melones continue to see a good trout bite , mostly while trolling and using common trolling gear and baits . A lot of guys like rolling shad , reported Gene Hildebrand at Glory Hole Sports .

“ Trolling Needlefish and using what is referred to as a kokanee setup using a hoochie trailing a blade are also bringing in the large rainbows and browns , as Marvin Wells of Sonora showed us with a nice 6 lb . brown . Marvin was trolling a pink Needlefish up river at a depth of 38 feet ,” said Hildebrand .

7-year-old Justin Grey was fishing out by the spillway and brought in an awesome 21 ” rainbow trout .

“ We ’ ve had a slow start to the kokanee season this year , but this week alone we have heard of multiple limits of kokes being landed on Melones . Kevin Ogg of Paulina Peak Tackle was using Purple Haze blade and hoochie combo by Paulina Peak for his limit ,” said Hildebrand .

Jeff Jackson and Jimmie Dirkson of Angels Camp came up with the right date , time and color combination of Sling Blade , and hoochie , both in pink to land eight kokanee also .

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Capt . Brad Bugica

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• Stampede Kokanee

• Oroville Kings

• Now Booking Sacramento River Fall Salmon !

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