Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3822 Oct 11-25 | Page 13

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Here in the Sacramento area, Auburn Outboard Marine is your official Raider Boat dealer. The store is located at 3320 Boyington Road in Loomis, Ca (530) 885-5569 www. auburnoutboard.net. GONE FISHING Powered by Clean, Quiet, Dependable Honda 4 Stoke Outboards. Now available in 2 hp. to 250 hp. Models... the right outboard motor for any boating need. GREGOR SALES EVENT Affordable Selection • EZ-Financing • Call Now! Come See Our Entire 2020 Inventory Today! GREGOR 18’ & 20’ EAGLE GREGOR SPORTSMEN 16 & 18 WT Continued from page 1 Candy colored 3 inch grubs lubed with Threadfin Shad scent Pro-Cure Super Gel rigged behind Mack’s Lure Mylar Hot Wings Flashers. The bite wasn’t wide-open, but within the first hour we had several tentative strikes and put a 17 inch rainbow in the cooler. 90 minutes later, with another 17 incher in the cooler, Mr. Big came knocking. The strike was pretty light and the fish didn’t pull the line out of the downrigger clip. Initially the fish didn’t feel like anything special, but the closer I reeled it to the surface the harder it fought and the bigger it felt. When the rainbow boiled up behind the boat, the sun was shining off the water with such brilliance that I had a hard time seeing to net the fish as Wes ran the camera. Finally, I was able to slide the fish into the net. As I lifted it over the transom of the Duckworth I was blown away by the length and girth of the rainbow. It was well over 4 pounds and measured 24.5 inches…Hands down the biggest rainbow I’d ever landed at Shasta. The big ‘bow had pounced all over a Fire Cracker Grub and the bait was half way down it’s throat when I tried to extract the hook. When I cleaned the fish, it had two shad minnows in its stomach that were just a hair smaller than the grub. Match the hatch and you will prosper! Sadly for us, that was the last fish of the outing. Once the sun hit the water in earnest the bite shut off and without time to go searching for fresh fish, we opted to trailer the boat and run for home. Two days later I was out on the waters of Rollins Lake in my Hobie Pro Angler. I landed a mess of bass and bluegill during that outing. You can read all the details of that adventure in the kayak column in this edition of the Fish Sniffer! Spacious • Stylish • Stable • Durable • Economical This Isn’t Grandpa’s Gregor. It’s Classy, Rugged, Lightweight But Heavy Duty! GREGOR 17’ & 20’ OSPREY GREGOR 15’ & 16’ TALON Trade-Ins Are Welcomed. Call Now For Details. Don’t Wait For The 2020 Boats Shows. Call Now For A Great Deal! All Osprey Packages Are Affordably Priced And Easy To Finance. Call Now! (916) 652-1660 3320 Boyington Rd. at Penryn in Loomis, CA 3822 For optimum performance and safety, read the Owner’s Manual before operating your Honda Marine Product. Always wear a personal flotation device while boating. www.auburnoutboardmarine.com My most recent trip found Wes and I loose on the waters of the West Delta in the Duckworth looking to hook some stripers on bait. We’d installed some balancer mounts for bait fishing this November and December, but we figured a September shake down trip to try out the balancers, our anchor and my 8’ Striper-Halibut-Salmon rods would be a good idea. The fish were there, but so were the weeds big time! We ventured all the way down to the Pittsburg area from Brannan Island looking for fish, but ended up anchored near the Power Lines below Decker Island in about 20 feet of water. While soaking shad, sardines and chicken livers we had about 1,574 Success! After battling a bunch of small bass and a sea of weeds, Wes Ward nets a nice 23 bites from baby stripers that were so inch Sacramento River keeper striper! Photo by CAL KELLOGG, Fish Sniffer Staff. small we couldn’t even hook them. They would simply nibble our hooks bare and then split for greener moved into to put the chomp on a big Lake and he’s already texted me a photo pastures. We also had to reel in at glob of chicken liver seasoned with a of his son holding up a hefty largemouth. least 25,000 times to clear big clumps strip of sardine fillet! When Wes gets back I’m picking up the of weed off our gear. Mental note, Better still Wes didn’t want to eat boat and heading up to Shasta to take September is not the time to anchor the bass so I ended up with a nice sack Gena on a birthday fishing trip. We’ll be fish the West Bank during a brisk of snow white fillets at the end of the staying at Bridge Bay and exploring the outgoing tide unless your ambition is day that I ate for dinner the next night depths of the big lake for rainbows, kings collecting every manner of vegetation in the form of striper tacos garnished and maybe a bonus brown. Cal Kellogg’s signature series firecracker grub found in Delta waters! with garden fresh tomatoes and some I’m out of space for now, I’ll be coming proved to be deadly on Shasta’s rainbows. The trout As the tide started to slow down, outstanding homemade guacamole! back at you in the next issue of the Fish were feeding on shad and the grubs did a great job of Wes got serious and put the wood to What’s next? Well as I write these Sniffer with more tales of NorCal fishing matching the forage. words Wes has his family out at Collins and adventure! Photo by CAL KELLOGG, Fish Sniffer Staff. a dandy 23 inch schoolie striper that