Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3717 Aug 3-17, 2018 | Page 25

CONTINUED FROM PG 19 TAHOE/DONNER LAKES cont. Charters has also been scoring fish at the north end of the lake. For macks to 8 pounds Daniels is trolling deep water with a combination of Kok-A-Nuts and Sling Blades. “My son and I took a trip up to Lake Tahoe and fished for two days,” related Burt Thompson of Thompson Outdoor Products. “We spent some time jigging, but that didn’t pay off for us. When we started slow trolling we started hooking mackinaw right away. Most of the fish were about 3 pounds, but we got a variety of fish up to about 7 pounds. It was a lot of fun.” “My son Jake got most of his fish on a 3 inch PowerBait minnow threaded and trolled behind a white Silver Horde Dodger. I used the same blade, but instead of the PowerBait minnow I went with a blue and white P-Line hoochie. Both rigs worked well. I added crawfish Pro-Cure to both of our dodgers and I’m sure that help us get a few extra strikes. In all we landed 14 fish,” said Thompson. The team at Tahoe Sportfishing continues to round up macks at the south end of the lake mainly in the 3 to 6 pound class, but larger fishing are showing up occasionally. There have been few reports of kokanee showing up, but anglers should start hooking the diminutive salmon soon. but what blew me away about the fish I caught this week was their size. Both of the stripers were over 20 pounds and I got them on back to back casts first thing in the morning. It was weird, I got the two biggest stripers of my life on back to back casts and didn’t hook another striper the entire day. I caught the fish a bit after 6 o’clock in the morning,” Richardi related. In other news, sturgeon continue to gobble roe and eel strips for anglers fishing the lower reaches of the Sacramento River and the upper reaches of Suisun Bay. Striper trollers are picking up shaker and keeper size stripers, but few people are focusing on stripers at this time. Black bass action is good for anglers working topwaters early and punching with creature baits later in the day. Most of the bass being hooked are 1 to 2 pounds, but fish up to 6 pounds have been reported. Catfish are on the much in the usual spots on night crawlers, livers, crawfish meat and anchovies. way to get away from the party scene that is very popular at this lake. Shallow gentle sloping sandy beaches with current from wind or the Carson River inlet are good bets. For best results, show up an hour or two early and catch a carp. Carp in Lahontan are super plentiful. Carp will eat night crawlers, crayfish or corn. Filet the carp into strips of carp bacon, and then cast out the tantalizing treat on a 5/0 circle hook on a 30-50-pound leader. The big cats will bite from dusk till dawn. - Mike McNeilly WESTERN NEVADA Catfish Rule Summer Action at Lahontan, Rye Patch Reservoirs RENO - The night bite for summer catfish is by far the best game around in Western Nevada at this time. Pretty much every desert reservoir that features these fish is fishing pretty well. Choices include Lahontan, Rye Patch, Chimney Dam, Wall Canyon and Weber Reservoirs. All of these lakes hold Channel Cats. WEST DELTA Lahontan is by far the most popular of these lakes as it is the closest to Reno, Big Stripers Assault Lyle Fernley and Carson City. Lahontan also has Richardi’s Popper! produced former state record fish for many BRANNAN ISLAND - “I love fishing for species including Channel Catfish and the stripers in the Delta during the fall, but in current record walleye and wiper. Any time the summer I focus on fishing for black you have a line in the water at Lahontan, bass with topwater lures,” reported Fish there is the potential for good things to Sniffer reader Lyle Richardi of Oakland. happen. Another big bonus of Lahontan “Two days ago I was fishing along a rip over other regional lakes is that there is rap wall near the mouth of Fisherman’s Cut shade to be had around the lake. How close on the San Joaquin side when I hooked a the shade is to the water is relative to the pair of stripers on a River2Sea Bubble Pop water level, but at