Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3826 Dec 6-20 | Page 14

12 FRESHWATER Dec 6 - 20, 2019 FRESHWATER REPORTS: VOL.38 • ISS. 26 with rainbow PowerBait on the backside also. Finally, Michael Franey from Milpitas caught a 5 lb. 9 oz trout using green garlic glitter PowerBait on the right side of the beach. CONTINUED FROM PG 11 OROVILLE LAKE/THERMALITO AFTERBAY cont. Oroville is holding 1,957,115 acre feet of water, 55 percent of capacity and 92 percent of average. The lake level is 778.36 feet in elevation. - Dan Bacher PYRAMID LAKE Cutthroats Slam Spinners! RENO - “Water temperatures are now in the low fifties and fishing has been good,” reported Sam Shallow of Deep Water Guide Service. “We have been targeting 20 to 70 feet of water working the shelves and ledges. Some really nice fish have been getting caught and released over the last week.” “We still have a dark green trend on our lure spread with Shallow Glass salmon spinners hooking the majority. Fly fishing has also been really good. Most of the fly guys congregate down south and work with an indicator setup. But the fish are all over the lake, so no need to hang with the crowd,” Shallow continued. According to the team at the Reno Fly Shop, fly fishing at Pyramid has still been a little hit and miss as far as fishing goes. They advise fishing deeper beaches with sinking lines. Dark flies have been working well at dawn and dusk. On the days when the weather picks up fish are coming into shallower water. Balanced leeches under an indicator have been working well in those conditions. Retrieving/stripping flies throughout the day has been the most consistent approach. QUARRY LAKES Lightning Trout Treat Thanksgiving Week Anglers FREMONT - The East Bay Regional Park District announced that during the week of Thanksgiving (Nov 25-29), Quarry Lakes, Shadow Cliffs, Chabot and Del Valle each received a plant of 500 pounds of Mt. Lassen’s special Lightning Trout. “These rainbow trout are golden in color with a bright red stripe down their sides and a bright red gill plate,” said Edward Culver of the East Bay Regional Park District. ‘They look like neon lights shooting through the water and their meat RANCHO SECO LAKE Shore Anglers Nail Rainbows HERALD – Trout are the main attraction at Rancho Seco Reservoir, now that the lake is being Dom paid Collins Lake a visit this November and successfully battled this stocked every jumbo rainbow. two weeks with Photo courtesy of the COLLINS LAKE RECREATION AREA, Oregon House. rainbows. Five hundred pounds of resembles that of a salmon. They are truly standard size catchable trout were planted a beautiful, great fighting, and great eating the weeks of November 11 and November 25. Five hundred pounds of trout will go trout!” in on both December 9 and December These trout are in addition to the 30. Th e water is cooling down with the rainbow trout that the park district and weather and anglers are getting excited CDFW are planting in these lakes. about the trout. Horseshoe Lake received 1000 pounds “Alex Yado, an annual pass holder, of rainbow trout from the park district the caught five trout this moing,” said He did week of November 18-22 and 700 pounds with chartreuse PowerBait at the first of rainbows the week of November 25-29. dock,” said Shane Oneto of the Rocky The district will also plant 750 pounds the Mountain Recreation Company. “Donald week of December 2-6. Estes, another annual pass holder, caught Fishing has been productive for anglers a trophy trout while fishing chunky cheese fishing for trout from shore and boat. and garlic PowerBait.” Hector caught a five-pound trout using To see the plant schedule, go to: https:// PowerBait on Fisherman’s Row. Michael rockymountainrec.com/lake-facilities/ Franey from Milpitas caught his limit of listing/rancho-seco-recreational-area. trout using red worms on Fisherman’s A total of 6500 pounds of trout will have Row. been planted by the end of this year. Tom Sanford from Fullerton caught Florida-strain largemouth bass, redear his limit of trout (2-3 pounders) using a sunfish, crappie and bluegill are also Kastmaster and float-tubing all around available for anglers on the lake. Anglers Horseshoe Lake. Jack Antrim from nail the bass while using Huddleston and Fremont caught four trout using a rainbow other rainbow trout swimbaits, crankbaits, runner from his boat in the back of Senkos, swimbaits, plastic worms, Horseshoe. spinnerbaits and jigs. Grank Yanapihara from Union City Big fish honors go to Jordan, who caught his limit of trout using PowerBait caught and on the backside of released an 11 lb. Horseshoe Lake. largemouth bass Lucas Dario- while tossing out a Rodriguez caught his limit of trout Pheasant, Chukar and Sporting Clays At Its Finest • 3 PHEASANTS FOR ...$96 • 8 CHUKARS FOR.......$160 3 Pheasants & • 12 PHEASANTS FOR $388 100 Sporting Clays • 3 PHEASANTS + 4 CHUKARS $130 FOR $170 17 Station Sporting Clay Course! 100 Rounds Sporting Clays Only $36 1000 Rounds Sporting Clays Only $320 45 Miles North of Sacramento Big Salmon Show as Season Enters Final Leg REDDING - The salmon season on the Sacramento River is slated to close on December 16. While limits are not the rule, the kings being caught are big chrome bright late fall run fish. These fish fight great and provide top notch table fare. For anglers that are interested in lots of action, trout fishing on the Sacramento has been outstanding with lots of fish up to and beyond 20 inches showing. Captain Mike Bogue has been splitting his time between salmon and trout fishing. When salmon fishing, Bogue has been putting his clients on fish that range from 15 to 25 pounds. “For the kings, I like to start out with plugs and then switch over to Pautzke cured roe if I need too,” said Bogue. On the trout fishing front, both fly and conventional tackle anglers are hooking from 12 to 25 trout per day that run from 12 to 20 inches. There are also some steelhead in the system that provide additional thrills, but they are proving to be tough to land for many. When trout are on the menu, Bogue starts out the day back trolling a variety of small plugs, but as the day goes on he explores deeper water areas with Pautzke salmon eggs. There are lots of salmon in the river at this time, so a well presented orange salmon egg is a deadly offering. 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