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Fishing Notes
• Striped Bass offer the most consistent
fishing during March, April and early May,
but they can be caught in the Sacramento
River year round. Fish sardines, pileworms
and jumbo minnows. When the water is
relatively clear, boaters can troll with
Rapalas, Rebels and Bombers on
spreaders with wormtail jigs. The Port of
Sacramento and Sacramento Deep Water
channel offer a unique striper fishery in
the late fall and winter months. Bank
fishermen drift live minnows and toss out
wormtail jigs and plugs for the stripers.
• American Shad follow the striped bass in
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April, May and June. Hot spots for shad
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include Discovery Park, Miller Park, the
Minnow Hole and the Freeport area.
Lots of bank fishing access can be found
on the Sacramento County side of the
river.
• King Salmon Season begins on July 16,
but the peak of the run is from
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September through mid-December. The
Clarksburg Rd
stretch from Garcia Bend to Clarksburg
can be particularly productive for trollers
using Kwikfish, Flatfish and spinners.
Clarksburg
Shore fishermen find success with Mepps
#5, Blue Fox and homemade spinners.
• White Sturgeon offer decent action
from Freeport to Courtland in the winter
and early spring, both shore and boat
fishing are productive. The best baits are
Central Av
ghost shrimp, eel and pileworms.
• White and Channel Catfish provide the Hamilton Rd
top sport in the summer and fall when
Greendale
water temperatures are at their warmest.
Fishing from a boat is most productive,
since you can fish the deep holes that
catfish like to hold in. Mackerel, anchovies,
sardines, crawdads and chicken livers are
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all good baits.
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Courtland
Rd along the
• Smallmouth Bass can
be found
rip-rap of this entire section of river. Toss
out plastic worms and crankbaits in
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crawdad patterns during the spring and
summer.
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Salmon Fishing Regulations: The salmon fishing season
is set at the California Fish and Game Commission meeting
every April after the Pacific Fishery Management Council
adopts the ocean salmon fishing regulations. The salmon
season in 2019 runs from July 16 to December 16 except
on the Sacramento River and on the American from the
Jibboom Street Bridge to the mouth. The daily bag limit is
two salmon and the total possession limit is four fish this
season. Review the California Fresh Water Sport Fishing
Regulations Booklet and Supplement for more information.
Discovery Park/American River Parkway Day Use: The
entrance fee for vehicles under 22 feet in length is $5.00,
except on summer holiday weekends when the fee is $8.00.
The fee for trailer or vehicle 22 or more feet in length is
$10.00 except for summer holiday weekends when the fee
is $13.00.
Annual Fees: Vehicle (private or commercial – $50.00
Motorized watercraft and trailer plus vehicle pass
– $100.00.
Boat launching: Concrete boat ramps are available at
Discovery Park and Howe Avenue in the American River
Parkway and at the Broderick Boat Tramp, Miller Park
Regional Park and Garcia Bend on the Sacramento River.
Park information: www.sacparks.net, Sacramento County
Department of Regional Parks, Recreation and Open Space
Administration, 3711 Branch Center Road, Sacramento, CA.
95827. For General Parks, Golf and Rangers Information,
call (916) 875-6961.
Fishing Information: Fisherman’s Warehouse, Sacra-
mento, (916) 362-1200; Elkhorn Outdoor Sports, Rio Linda,
(916) 991-5298; Broadway Bait Rod & Gun, Sacramento,
(916) 448-6338, Sacramento Pro Tackle, (916) 925-0529.
Fishing Guides: Guides are available for king salmon,
striped bass, steelhead and shad fishing during the
different seasons. Guides available for salmon fishing in
the river in the metropolitan area include:
• James Netzel of Tight Lines Guide Service (888)
975-0990
• Monte Smith, Gold Country Sportfishing (209) 581-4734
• Jerry Lampkin, TNG Motor Sports Guide Service, (530)
320-0994
• Brett Brady, Bare Bones Guide Service, (530) 272-7137,
(530) 263-4451
• Rob Reimers, Rustic Rob’s Guide Service, (530)632-0051
• Shaun Rainsbarger, Shaun’s Guide Service, (530)
802-4484
Sacramento River
Metro Area
Sacramento River Map Facts
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S. Stone
Lake
1. Discovery Park (fee)
2. Broderick Launch Facility
3. Miller Park
4. Garcia Bend
5. Clarksburg Marina (fee hoist )
6. Clarksburg (Merritt Island)
Lambert
Service forecasted 379,632 adult Sacra-
the policies threatening our waters, our
mento River Fall Chinook (SRFC)
fish, and indigenous lifeways.
salmon were in the ocean off the West
It’s a dire time in California for wild
Coast, compared to 223,854 a year ago at chinook salmon (Nur) – climate change,
the same. The number is derived from the giant dam projects and draining rivers for
number of jacks (two-year-olds), 41,184,
Big Ag irrigation threaten the survival
that returned to the Sacramento River
of the keystone keepers of our waters.
and its tributaries in 2018. Whether the
Salmon bring essential nutrients to the
modeling will turn out correct is another
waterways, forests, and lands.
story.
However, since the Shasta Dam was
A total of 105,739 hatchery and natural
built 73 years ago, the salmon have been
area adult spawners were estimated to
unable to return to their home waters in
have returned to the Sacramento River
the Winnemem’s ancestral watershed.
Basin in 2018, meeting the criteria for
Now, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe is
“overfished” status in 2018, according to
working on a plan to bring the genetic
the PFMC.
descendants of their salmon from New
The excessive diversion of Central
Zealand back to their home waters.
Valley
rivers
and
massive
water
exports
For more information, go to: www.
Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and her son, Pom, during the
from
the
Sacramento-Sacramento
River
run4salmon.org.
Environmental Justice Boat Tour of the Run4Salmon from Pittsburg to Sacramento on
September 17.
Delta in dry and drought years are two
Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff.
of the primary causes
of salmon declines,
in the vicinity of the incinerator;
Shasta Dam raise at the Shasta Dam after combined with poor
• the Borges Clarksburg Airport,
their run From the Trinity River.
ocean conditions, the
formerly now a commercial crop dusting
“We are a salmon state and we should be blocking of migration
facility and now used for recreational
a salmon state again,” said Chief Caleen
to the spawning
aviation;
Sisk “It is time for us to come together.”
grounds by dams and
• the Sacramento Manufactured Gas
The salmon fishing was better at press
habitat destruction.
Plant in Sacramento; and
time than during the tour, although it was
What is the
• the PGE Sacramento Site in
still tough. Hopefully, more fish will start Run4Salmon?
Sacramento.
moving into the river this October
Winnemem Wintu
After the tour, Agustinez commented,
“The fishing has improved a great deal
Chief Caleen Sisk
“This was the first time I have as an indi- for shore fishermen tossing out Mepps
and a collective of
vidual gone down the Sacramento River
Flying C spinners above Discovery Park,” Indigenous women,
through the Delta and I will report to
said “Uncle Larry” Barnes at Sacramento activists, and allies
the director on what I saw. When we get
Pro Tackle. “Jigging spoons from a boat
are organizing the
people face to face, it’s not a big fight,
has also picked up on the river near the
Run4Salmon, a
but about moving forward moving on
Sacramento Yacht Club.”
300-mile trek that
common goals. We are also wanting to
Trollers are working for their salmon,
follows the historical
get more information on the natural gas
but the quality of the fish is impressive on journey of the salmon
and other pipelines that cross the river.”
the Sacramento. Captain Netzel reported
from the Sacramen-
The following week on Wednesday,
that one angler landed a bright 15 lb.
to-San Joaquin Delta
King salmon fishing on the Sacramento in the capital city is
runners from four Tribes on the Trinity,
salmon in his boat on his last trip while
to the Winnemem
expected to pick up as the water temperature cools this October.
Klamath and Sacramento rivers joined
trolling with Silvertron spinners at Verona. (McCloud River) to
Big, bright kings like this salmon boated on Captain James
the Winnemem in a rally against the
In March, the National Marine Fisheries raise awareness about Netzel’s boat are the reward for trollers in the fall.
Photo courtesy of TIGHT LINES GUIDE SERVICE.