FishSniffer Magazine Issue 4006 | Page 19

VOL . 40 • ISS . 6
March 26 , 2021
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on spoons in all finishes . Although it still seems to be a morning bite which should be changing soon . Speed is variable to lures and what they ’ re reacting to . The bite this week for me was 7-9am then stopped . I had 4 fish 1 small brown 1.5 lb and 3 rainbows from 1 to 2 lbs John with Phil ’ s Props reports that the lake is staring to rise and the bass are starting to get more active . You can find fish in the pre-spawn mode . The bass are thinking about get back into the coves to start spawning so try secondary points . Dart heads , z-man and other soft plastics have been productive . The best colors have been green pumpkin and cinnamon with purple flake . The reaction bite is starting to turn on . Spinnerbaits , small swimbaits , and jerk baits are starting to produce more fish . If you can find baitfish in the deep water you may want to try dropping a spoon . Jeff Goodwin with Jeff Goodwin Guide Service reports , Shasta Lake is in great shape and it ’ s fishing pretty good too ! We ’ ve been focusing on the brown trout , but we ’ re seeing a few rainbows and some salmon too ! Water temps continue to hover around 50 degrees and the lake level is 92 feet below full pool . We ’ re catching browns just about everywhere on the lake we have been fishing . Last weeks hot bite faded a bit this week , but what we lost in quantity , we gained in
Travis Sluys was trolling with Chris Ditter of HeadRush Sportfishing when he caught and released this schoolie sized striper . The San Joaquin River has been productive lately while trolling both shallow and deep running lures .
Photo Courtesy of HeadRush Sportfishing quality . We ’ ve landed browns to 7 lbs . this past week which have made up for the slower bite periods . A lot of the browns we are catching have been feeding on Shad that seem to be doing very well in Shasta Lake this
year . Shad in the 5 ” -6 ” range have been seen all over the lake where they are residing . Most are found up in the arms where warmer water temps are found later in the day when it ’ s nice on the lake . We ’ ll continue to look
for browns next week and will be trolling spoons or brined Shad to get our bites . The downrigger bite has been pretty good at 20 ’ -30 ’ down and the side planers are seeing their fair share of activity as well .
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