Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3818 August 16-30 | Page 22
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FRESHWATER
August 16-30, 2019
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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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
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Service, give him a
ring at (530) 755-
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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. These were
nice, quality fish.”
The previous day,
Wands was out in
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two bass on a popper to 12 inches and
three smaller fish on a curly tail grub on a
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“This is a common theme at Rollins
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until the days start to getting shorter and
the boating traffic dies down,” Pleece
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