Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3822 Oct 11-25 | Page 19

Marconi Av El 1 Bryte Broderick 2 3 Lake Washington Howe Ave 50 160 Florin Rd Parkway 160 4 99 Sheldon Rd 160 5 Laguna West Elk Grove Blvd Bond Rd Elk Grove 6 N. Stone Lake Hood klin d o Ho 99 Franklin Fran Rd Launch Ramp Key Ri Ship Freeport Gerber Rd Neth Florin Meadowview Rd Fruitridge Road 99 Fair d Blv Watt Ave 50 Courtland ks Oa 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 Ri ve April, May and June. Hot spots for shad r 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 84 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 n all good baits. ame Sacr Courtland Rd along the • Smallmouth Bass can be found rip-rap of this entire section of river. Toss out plastic worms and crankbaits in 160 crawdad patterns during the spring and summer. Arden Way Sacramento 160 Port of Sacramento Turning Basin Camino Av River 50 80 160 American West Sacramento 80 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 17 Oct 11 - 25, 2019 MAP FEATURE VOL.38 • ISS. 22 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.