Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3818 August 16-30 | Page 22

20 FRESHWATER August 16-30, 2019 FRESHWATER REPORTS: CONTINUED FROM PG 19 PARDEE LAKE cont. during the summer, due to the relatively cold water temperatures. The lake management, Rocky Mountain Recreation Company, has planted 35,000 pounds of rainbows since the lake opened in February. Big trout honors go to Teagan Chapman, who topped recent catches with a 5.6 pound rainbow trout. Shore fishermen are using nightcrawlers, PowerBait and Power Eggs to hook trout while fishing the deep water off points in the main recreation area. Robbie Dunham of Koke Machine Guide Service and clients are catching limits of rainbows while trolling with Speedy Shiners in the north part of the lake at depths to 40 feet. Most kokanee anglers are heading to New Melones for the landlocked sockeyes, but anglers are hooking an occasional kokanee while trolling with hoochies and spinners behind dodgers near the dam and in the river arm. Channel catfish are also worth a try. Gus and Leo teamed to catch a huge channel catfish while bait fishing on the reservoir. For largemouth and smallmouth bass, anglers should toss out plastic worms, Senkos,, jigs and swimbaits in the river arm. Broad Slough, and they found a Rat-L- Trap bite for five stripers to 6 pounds. Sylvia Vieira of Vieira’s Riverside Bait near Isleton reported no salmon had been landed yet out of their launch, and only a few boats have been launching on a daily basis. The months of September and October are expected to provide solid action for salmon. Smallmouth bass can be caught on crawdad crankbaits and plastics along the riprapped banks in Steamboat, Miner and Elk sloughs. - Dave Hurley of the East Bay Regional Park District. Catfish plants will continue at Horseshoe Lake until trout plants resume with the arrival of cooler water temperatures this fall. Rob L. of Milpitas reported that he caught and released a seven- and-a-half pound, 23-inch largemouth bass. He said he was fishing with a plastic worm in Rainbow Lake below the Isherwood Staging Area. Note that the use of lead fishing tackle is prohibited at Quarry Lakes. You can exchange lead tackle at the kiosk in a “1 for 1” trade for stainless steel weights. ROLLINS/SCOTTS FLAT LAKES Bass Action Backs Off REDDING/RED BLUFF Trout Great, Salmon Fish Fair With More Kings On The Way Dan Munsee hit the Feather River on the July 16 river opener and scored this beautiful chrome bright king salmon! Photo courtesy of FISHSNIFFER.COM. REDDING- The upper section of the Sacramento River opened to salmon fishing on August 1. While QUARRY LAKES/SHADOW anglers did catch some big beautiful chromers, the action wasn’t red hot. Most CLIFFS RESERVOIR boats hooked a fish per rod. Catfish Dominate Late With big numbers of salmon feeding beyond the Golden Gate, it’s just a matter Summer Sport of weeks until big numbers of kings start FREMONT - Do you like to catch big showing in the Sacramento River. For channel catfish? Well, now’s the prime salmon anglers, the months of September time to target big, bold channel catfish at and October will likely offer epic fishing. Horseshoe Lake, located in the Quarry Trout fishing on the Sacramento is great Lakes Regional Park on the border these days for both fly guys and gear between Fremont and Union City. anglers. Fly anglers are drifting multiple Thirteen-year old Caleb W. caught a nymph rigs teamed with indicators. 9-and-a-half pound catfish. He was fishing Gear anglers are back trolling with plugs with a small night crawler from the bald and side drifting with beads, roe and cypress grove. crickets. “Oregon Mike” reported that he caught If you go you can expect to see lots of a five-pound catfish. “He was using frozen 14 to 16 inch rainbows with the larger shad from the pier”, reported Joe Sullivan fishing pushing up to 22 inches. Both Robert Weese and Mike NOW BOOKING Sacramento River SALMON Bogue are top sticks Professional Guide Dan Ponciano when it comes to putting anglers on Call big bad kings. To book a trip with Now for Weese of Northern Best California Guide Dates! Service, give him a ring at (530) 755- 7196. To arrange a 24’ North River sled Call Dan for a G Loomis Rods • Shimano Reels trip with Mike Bogue Great Salmon Trip of Mike Bogue’s Guide Service reach out to Mike at (530) 246-8457. RIO VISTA Trolling for Stripers Improves STOCKTON – There are striped bass moving into the Delta, and Clyde Wands was out with Dave Houston in Broad Slough on a shallow troll, and they scored 14 keepers to 8 pounds with several in the 7/8-pound range. He said, “We quit early due to the heat and wind, but we trolled Rat-L-Traps, Yozuri Crystal Minnows, and P-Line Angry Eyes. We also went over to the West Bank for a few more keepers that we released, but it was very windy. 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Warm water temperatures and plenty of recreational boat traffic seem to have put the bass of the bite and trout have been absent too. “I’d been doing pretty well on bass at Rollins, but now that bite has really slowed,” reported Jason Pleece of Meadow Vista. “On my last trip, I caught two bass on a popper to 12 inches and three smaller fish on a curly tail grub on a 1/8-ounce jig head.” “This is a common theme at Rollins Lake during the middle of summer. The bite likely won’t get really good again until the days start to getting shorter and the boating traffic dies down,” Pleece predicted. At Scotts Flat a few folks are targeting bass, but most are focused on catfish. For the bass anglers are tossing crankbaits, walking baits and soft plastics. Catfish are biting pretty well for folks fishing in the campground and along the dam at Scotts. Liver and worms are the top baits, but mackerel or even hotdog chunks will work. 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