Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3907 Mar 13-27 | Page 12

10 FRESHWATER March 13-27, 2020 FRESHWATER REPORTS: VOL.39 • ISS. 7 CLEAR LAKE Lake Outdoors reported that he Crappie Tournament Teams and his fishing Tie for First Place with 21.58 partner caught BULLARDS BAR/ENGLEBRIGHT and released 15 Pounds RESERVOIR cont. largemouth bass CLEARLAKE – Two teams tied for first Reservoir remain scarce. Anglers while throwing place with 10 fish weighing 21.58 pounds interested in hooking rainbow and brown Underspins and trout should troll Rapalas, Speedy Shiners total in the first crappie tournament of the jigs at 17 to 25 season held out of Clear Lake Oaks on or nightcrawlers in the river arm. feet deep on their February 22, according to the Clear Lake Englebright Reservoir is holding 66,807 trip on Sunday, Crappie Association, the event sponsor. acre feet of water, 95 percent of capacity February 23. “21.58 pounds took first place, with last and 101 percent of average. “We landed two year’s winning team defending their title, - Dan Bacher 6 pounders, one but they had to share it this time,” the 5 pounder and a association reported. bunch of fish in the Congratulations go to Jim Malm and 4 pound class,” Joe Everett, who improved on their last CAMANCHE LAKE he said. “We only year’s weight of 21.42, pounds. Sharing boated one bass the honors were Jim Saechao and Manh Trollers Hooking Hefty under 3 pounds.” Saelee (from the Fishing Addicts YouTube Rainbows “Bluegill fishing Channel). is great at Clear BURSOM - Trout trolling at Camanche They broke the tie for the money payout Lake State Park, is hitting its stride with the warm water with big fish of 2.50 going to Jim Malm the Konochti Vista conditions. Robbie Dunham of Koke and Joe Everett. Jim and Manh just Casino and the Machine Guide Service took his wife, Kim, missed out with a 2.36 pounder. Clear Lake Oaks out for a day of relaxation, and Kim landed Ryan Nichols and Long Nguyen placed Hudson was trolling a white grub at Lake Almanor this winter and launch ramp,” a limit within a few hours on Speedy third with 10 crappie weighing 21.06 scored this incredible 6.75-pound brown trout. added Burris. Shiners in open water. Dunham said, pounds. Their big fish was 2.27 pounds. Photo courtesy of PAUL LANIER, San Francisco. “Everybody is “With the water warming up like it is, the Michael Mitchell and Michael Decker getting their trout bite will open up.” finished fourth with 19.99 pounds. Their limit while using Kyle Wise of Head Hunter Guide Service big fish weighed 2.62 pounds. Traditionally along the dam is good in redworms. The fish weigh up to 1 pound.” had a similar report, saying, “The trout bite Finally, Pete Imhof and Glen Polini early spring but I haven’t seen many fish - Dan Bacher blew up this week with easy limits as the placed fifth with 19.27 pounds. Their big biting down there yet- if the weather holds rainbows are chasing Speedy Shiners on fish was 19.97 pounds. out it may start soon. a fast troll. The water temperature is close Big fish honors went to the team of Jeff Wright from Cottonwood caught a 5 to 60 degrees, and I would be running the Louis Carr Jr. and Timothy Jackson with pounder on Yellow Corn PowerBait right Speedy Shiners at 3 mph. There are tons COLLINS LAKE a 2.98 slab. They placed 15th overall with from the shore on the beach- and that’s of trout in the lake right now.” 7.96 lbs. Wonderful Weather for Winter about the best advice I could give you Bank anglers are also scoring within “The average weight of our top ten fish right now. Trout Plants – But Pray for days of the plants, and rainbows to nearly was 2.28 lbs. The top ten fish weighed Tom Ives from Browns Valley caught his 7 pounds have been taken from the More Rain! 2.50, 2.36, 2.27, 2.62, 2.18, 2.33, 1.97, 5 pound fish trolling Rapalas up near the shorelines with Mice Tails, trout dough 2.21, 2.22 and 2.14. That’s a 2.28 pound OREGON HOUSE – Collins Lake is 19 powerlines. bait, Kastmasters, or nightcrawlers. average, not including the 2.98 slab That the water is so clear is a testament ft from full, surface temperature hovering - Dave Hurley (definition-large crappie),” the association to how gentle the winter rain has been. around 50F and the water is still clear! said. In 2019 Collins Lake was full right around Justin Hatanaka from Sacramento Manh Saelee started off February with a bang, reeling in this time in February, but normally (if you also took the can say “normally” about weather in the three large trout including a 8 3/4 pound Dobyn’s women’s California foothills) it’s not until we’ve lunker on a Silver Kastmaster. division and gotten a decent deluge in March or April We started winter trout planting about received a that we see the lake spill. two and a half weeks ago. It’s not Dobyn’s Rod for Deanne & Shawn Hansen loaded up something we do every winter but the her effort. Dobyns fishing with Kastmasters & PowerBait weather has been favorable so planting second-place from Shore has begun! winner in the With that in mind, while I enjoy the Channing Venegas landed yet another women’s division absolutely gorgeous late winter sunshine giant rainbow trout – 8 3/4 pounds! was Suzanne and the terrific trout traffic, I am still Even so it wasn’t until the last three Radley, who praying for more rain to fill this lake for days that we’ve finally seen the trout bite fished with Jon Springtime. get a bit stronger. Granted quite a few Radley, placing - Ed Palma of the fish folks brought to the scales in 6th overall with January were trophy sized but I’m happy 19.03 pounds, to see that the rate is picking up. the association Part of the reason we have this late reported. winter catch is the mostly dry and stable DAVIS LAKE The bass weather. In fact, I would just about ignore The Ice Comes Off the Lake fishing is also James Child used a Kastmaster spoon to fool this huge Lake Amador the clouds in the forecast and focus rainbow during an early February fishing trip. going strong PORTOLA – With the unusually warm instead on the wind. Today winds are Photo courtesy of the LAKE AMADOR CAFÉ, Lake Amador. at Clear Lake. late winter weather, Lake Davis was in supposed to settle down to a 5 MPH Dave Burriss the process of icing out at press time and breeze and stay there for most of the visit at Clear anglers were already catching quality week. trout in open water in Mallard Cove. For example, Todd Kidder had a great day when he landed a full stringer of rainbow trout while bait fishing from shore in Mallard Cove. Anglers should toss out PowerBait, Power Eggs, nightcrawlers, Kastmasters and Little Cleos for the early season trout. 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