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

Up-To-Date and Published Locally... By Sportsmen... For Sportsmen! Don Pedro Reservoir Map Feature MADE IN U.S.A See Page 16 Vol. 37 - ISS.17 Our 36th Year Since 1982 August 3 - 17, 2018 “The Magazine for West Coast Sportsmen!” EPIC Salmon Fishing aboard the FV Bad Influence O yster Point - July 15th, 2018. Frequently I’m behind my computer or mobile device, interacting with fans and followers on social media through the Facebook and Instagram pages. With the fishing on fire, we’re getting countless reports and photos of beautiful salmon daily from stoked anglers and lady anglers - we appreciate all of you that communicate and interact with us on a daily basis. But seeing all the epic reports, I found myself wanting so bad to hop onto a boat and get in on the action. Don’t get me wrong - I love our fans and followers and seeing all the great catching, but I do like to fish and catch fish too! Somehow or someway, the stars aligned last week. Shawn Chen Flading aka “Chenzo” of South San Francisco personally threw out an invite to go. “Take along a friend! Just get me for fuel! It’s all good bro!” he said in a text. Boy, was I excited. I brought my longtime friend Brian Arimoto, who had never fished for ocean salmon before. Also joining us was Chen’s Shawn “Chenzo” Flading (L) and the Fish Sniffer’s Roland Aspiras friend, Noel Spence, also show off a quartet of big beautiful king salmon that they landed new to fishing for salmon. while trolling off Stinson Beach during a recent outing. Photo by ROLAND ASPIRAS, Fish Sniffer Staff. Our vessel for the day was the beautiful FV Bad instructed. Influence, a hard-top Hewescraft Straight bait behind flashers on both captained by Chenzo. downriggers and 2.5 pound balls was After punching through choppy Chenzo’s game plan for the day. waters under the Golden Gate and the “Fish on! We’ve got double! We’ve Potato Patch, we arrived in front of Stinson Beach in manageable winds and got doubleeeeee,” he screamed. Well, that didn’t take long. I swell. looked back from the wheel to see My task for the day was to assist complete chaos with both Brian and Chenzo with both the deck and the Noel hanging on for dear life, drags wheel. “Keep us at 2.9 to 3.5 miles an hour and around 80 feet deep,” he CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 GONE FISHING by Roland Aspiras River Salmon Season Starts With Surprisingly Good Fishing S almon season on the Sacramento River opened with surprisingly productive fishing on July 16. Guides and experienced anglers reported the top Chinook action at two locations – the mouth of the American at Discovery Park in downtown Sacramento and the upper section of the river below Red Bluff. The salmon season opened as trollers and some moochers continue to hook limits of salmon while trolling off Half Moon Bay and outside of the Golden Gate. Anglers fishing out of Bodega Bay are landing limits many days also. Fishing on the Sacramento’s two major tributaries, the Feather and American rivers, was tougher, though anglers landed a few quality fish there also. Kirk Portocarrero of https://www. sacriverguide.com reported top-notch fishing on opening day out of Discovery Park. “The four anglers fishing with me landed 4 salmon ranging from 12 to 18 pounds. We trolled Silvertron spinners below the mouth of the American,” he said. Portocarrero also reported two quality salmon in the boat on the morning of July 17. Dennis Pfanner at Sacramento Pro Tackle rated the salmon fishing in downtown Sacramento as “7-1/2 on a scale of 1 to 10.“ “Two of my customers reported catching two salmon up to 16 pounds, with around 25 to 30 salmon taken by the fleet of over 20 boats,” said Pfanner. “Most anglers hooked the fish while trolling Kwikfish, Flatfish and spinners.” At press time, anglers were continuing to hook some big, bright salmon on the Sacramento from Discovery Park to Garcia while trolling spinners and plugs. Further downriver at Vieira’s Resort in Isleton, slow fishing was reported on opening day, with two salmon landed. Robert Weese of Northern California WHAT’S HOT (925) 428-1103 www.dragonsportfishing.com This young lady took an early season salmon fishing trip with Robert Weese and scored this dandy Sacramento River king. Photo courtesy of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GUIDE SERVICE, Redding. 36 Years Serving Sportsmen by Dan Bacher CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Resnicks, Corporate Agri- business Fund Jerry Meral’s Prop. 3 Water Bond Campaign See Page 20 Special Section Baja Roundup PG 30-31 INSIDE Area Reports FRESHWATER REPORTS Almanor - Lake Amador..........................................4 American Basin - Camanche Lake.........................7 Carson Pass Region - Colusa/Knights Landing ....9 Contra Loma - East Delta.................................... 10 Eastern Sierra - Klamath River............................ 13 Los Vaqueros Reservoir - Rio Vista................ 14-15 Rollins/Scotts Flat - Tahoe/Donner Lakes...... 18-19 West Delta - Western Nevada............................. 21 SALTWATER REPORTS Berkeley - Half Moon Bay.....................................28 Monterey - Peninsula Shoreline...........................29 FEATURES Where...When...How... SALT WATER JOURNAL..................................22-27 BAJA ROUNDUP...............................................30-31 BASS FISHING SPOTLIGHT: Jay Yelas.................... 12 BULLETIN BOARD................................................... 4 FISH SNIFFER HOW-TO: Cal Kellogg..................... 5 GO FOR IT: Staff....................................................... 8 KAYAK FISHING SPOTLIGHT: Roland Aspiras......... 6 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...................................... 3 MAP FEATURE: Dan Bacher.............................16-17 SALTY TIPS: Steve “Hippo” Lau............................. 30 SPOTLIGHT ON CONSERVATION: Dan Bacher..... 20 WHAT’S HOT SALTWATER: Cal Kellogg ............... 27 STAFF TACKLE What We’re Using Cal Kellogg - fished the Old River for smallmouth bass. For tossing small Yo-Zuri crankbaits, Cal chose a Cousins GDS 701 spinning rod. The rod was balanced with an Abu Garcia Cardinal SX 30 spinning reel spooled with 8 pound moss green Trilene Big Game line. Cal caught more than 25 bass while fishing from his 14 foot Hobie Pro Angler kayak. Paul Kneeland - fished Bullards Bar Reservoir with Bridget Looney of Colfax in the Fish Sniffer 21’ Rogue Jet Coastal. They caught limits of Kokanee to 14 inches using an 8’ Phenix Reaper composite triggerstick kokanee rod with a Team Daiwa Z ultra light reel loaded with 6 pound Yozuri TopKnot fluorocarbon line. They trolled orange/white Dick Nite spoons and Uncle Larry’s brass/orange spinners behind orange and red Vance’s and Paulina Peak dodgers off the Canon Downriggers 45 to 65 feet deep at 1.4 mph. Dan Bacher - fished for rainbow trout at Alpine Lake. He used a Berkley Ugly Stick GX2 6’ 6” medium action spinning rod, teamed up with a Shakespeare GX235 spinning reel filled with 6 lb. test P-Line CX Premium Flourocarbon Coated Line. He fished with chartreuse Berkley PowerBait, 1/8 oz. gold and black Panther Martins and 2/5 oz. gold/red stripe Little Cleos.