Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3821 Sept 27, 2019 | Page 27

VOL.38 • ISS. 21 FRESHWATER Sept 27 - Oct 11, 2019 25 FRESHWATER REPORTS: CONTINUED FROM PG 23 STAMPEDE LAKE Kokanee Season Ends With A Big Bang of the lake with pink Wedding Ring Spinners teamed with Mack’s Double D dodgers. They armed the spinners with shoepeg corn spiked with anise krill scent Pro-Cure Super Gel. The Crofts got a surprise when Jenny’s rod popped off the downrigger and a big fish took off on a hard run. “I figured Jenny was into a big mackinaw, but to my surprise it was actually a 23.5-inch rainbow that weighed in at 4.12 pounds. It was an amazing fish. We would have let it go, but it inhaled the Wedding Ring and was bleeding pretty badly,” Tom related. TRUCKEE – The great kokanee fishing at Stampede Reservoir continued right to the end of the season. James Netzel of Tight Lines Guide Service did his final Stampede kokanee trip of the season on September 8 – and is now booking trips for fall salmon fishing in the Sacramento metropolitan area and for striper trips on the Delta. “2019 Stampede Kokanee season ended today with 4 happy clients with full limits” said Captain James Netzel of Tight Lines Guide Service. “The fish ranged from 14 to 17 inches long. All of the fish cut real well. It was a great season, with limits of kokanee on every trip.” “Together we caught over 5000 kokanee, keeping just over 1000 Captain James Netzel continues to put his clients on limit style kokanee for the dinner table. Now it’s off to a action at Stampede Reservoir along with the occasional rainbow trout. larger type of salmon., Sacramento These fish were landed on September 4. Metro King Salmon,” said Netzel. Photo courtesy of TIGHT LINES GUIDE SERVICE, Loomis. WEST DELTA “Thanks to the best tackle company on the west coast Salmon Slow, pounds these days. These are by no Paulina Peak Tackle for supplying the means large macks, but they do provide Stripers & Sturgeon Provide tackle, the only Braid made in the USA great tasting fillets for the BBQ or smoker. FINS fishing, top rod manufacturer Excitement On the salmon front the kokanee have Lamiglas with the kokanee kids rods and PITTSBURG - In the West Delta the been running about 12 inches on average the most thanks for the over 200 clients fishing is pretty good and with all the heat and 14 inchers are considered large. who made this all possible.,” he noted. The folks at Tahoe - Dan Bacher Sportfishing have been running both mackinaw and kokanee trips and limits have been TAHOE the result regardless Macks, ‘Kokes & Trout Stretch of the species in the crosshairs. Lines Fish Sniffer readers SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - Late summer Tom and Jenny Croft anglers visiting Lake Tahoe are visited Tahoe over the experiencing good to very good fishing Labor Day holiday while targeting mackinaw and kokanee. weekend and rounded Anglers are also picking up the occasional up full limits of 12 to bonus brown trout or rainbow. 13 inch kokanee while The mackinaw are averaging 2 to 5 trolling the south end Dodgers & Flashers For Your Fall Trout Adventures! M ack’s Lure is most famous for their tried and true Wedding Ring Spinners, but their lineup of trout gear goes much deeper. The fact of the matter is that Mack’s offers up some of the most advanced dodgers and flashers in the game! The Double D Dodger The Double D not only has the proven traditional dodger action that is known to catch fish, but also delivers its patent-pending stop & go action to your lure. Double D does the work for you…Most savvy anglers know that if you want to catch more fish, making S-curves and/or speeding up and slowing down your lure with the throttle will do it. In fact, they will tell you; the vast majority of fish are caught when making a turn. The patent-pending design of the Mack’s Lure Double D Dodger constantly puts that same action to work for you. Double D doesn’t wait for turns…The constant speed-up/slow-down action means never again waiting for the turn to catch your fish. You will be in fish-catching mode constantly. Double D for double duty…A diagram on the back of the dodger shows a second important benefit. There are four attachment points that allow you to spread your lines, as well as move them out from under- neath the boat path like a side planer does. Flash Lite Trolls Flash Lite Trolls are offered in 2, 3 and 4 blade models. They offer all the attrac- tion power of traditional multiple blade “flashers” but since they are made with reflective tape rather than metal blades they create 80% less drag. This means you can use the with light gear and enjoy the fight of the fish! For more information about the Mack’s Lure lineup of deadly lures and attractors visit them online at www. mackslure.com. of recent days, crowds are running light. On the salmon fishing front, the emphasis is on fishing because there has yet to be a whole lot of catching. Zero salmon have been reported for anglers tossing spinners from the Benicia shoreline as of press time. Above Rio Vista some anglers have hooked salmon while trolling, but the best fishing is yet to come when the water cools and the salmon make a slower transition up river. These days any fish heading up are swimming quickly in order to find cooler water up river. Trollers are nailing big numbers of stripers while trolling both shallow and deep running plugs at the standard spots along the Sacramento River from Rio Vista to Collinsville. The average bass at this time runs from 5 to 8 pounds with bigger fish surpassing 20. Not many guys are targeting stripers with bait these days, but the outlook is good for a productive bait fishing season later in the fall. Shrimp boats working Suisun Bay are reporting big numbers of bullheads and bullheads are one of the very best fall baits for anglers working Suisun Bay and the West Delta. The real West Delta sleeper is sturgeon fishing. The bite has been outstanding for the handful of anglers fishing deep water areas in Suisun Bay. The baits to use remain salmon roe and eel.