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WEST DELTA
cont.
and eel too, but overall nothing
is keeping up with plain grass
shrimp right now,” Mullins added.
Troy and Johnny Vincent
recently enjoyed solid catfish
action while working the West
Delta.
“We headed out hoping for
sturgeon and
stripers. Long
story short:
we
couldn’t get them to bite, but we
stumbled on a hole full of hungry
catfish in the lower end of the
San Joaquin. In all we boated
19 catfish to about 3 pounds.
Everything we caught came on
chunk cut bag anchovies fished
on a standard high low rig,”
related Troy.
WILD HORSE/
SOUTH
FORK
LAKES
Open Water
Trout Fishing
Prevails at
South Fork
ElKO– At press time,
South Fork had more
open water than it did
ice. Fishing has been
just fair, but those
fish being caught
ranged from 18 to
22 inches. What little
ice there is should
be avoided at all
costs. Best fishing
appears to be along
Jet Ski Beach with
shore anglers having
some success with
PowerBait or worms,
while fly rodders
should be using
chironomids, hares
ears, prince nymphs
Mike Marquis caught this feisty rainbow during a
recent trolling adventure at Lake Berryessa.
Photo courtesy of KEVIN WILSON, Sacramento.
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and buggers.
Wildhorse
had
approximately
eight inches of
good ice with
no snow on
top making it
very slippery
and difficult
walking.
Anglers
should plan
on wearing
some traction
devices on
their boots
to keep from
falling. With
no snow and
warm daytime Mr. Morgan traveled all the way to the California Delta to trade punches with this dandy Suisun Bay
temperatures, sturgeon on January 19.
Photo courtesy of DELTA PRO FISHING, Elk Grove.
the ice is
very noisy,
making it safer walking. The snow
For the most part, the fish are
booming and cracking, which has
should also “calm” the ice down
averaging 15 to 20 inches in
probably affected fishing which
so it doesn’t boom and pop. This
length. Garlic flavored PowerBait
has been just fair.
or PowerEggs have been working may help fishing as well.
There are still some major
well. Hopefully the predicted
- Joe Doucette - NDOW
pressure ridges on the lake that
snow for Friday, January 19 fell
contain areas of unsafe ice.
Please stay away from them.
The Hendricks Arm is still the
best fishing, though fish are being
caught in Penrod, near Goose
Island and off of the state park.
As a general rule, anglers
• Professionally
should find trout in six to 10 feet
Installed
of water this time of year, so you
• Custom Fit
don’t need to head to the middle.
Depending upon the day, trout
• Same Day
fishing has ranged from slow to
Service
good in eight to ten feet of water
fishing halfway down in the water
column.
TRAILER HITCHES
New Pro-Cure Products You’ll Want To Try!
W
hen I’m at the Sac-
ramento ISE Show, I
always enjoy stopping by the
Pro-Cure booth where I chat
with Steve Lynch about what’s
new in the Pro-Cure
product line. So,
what going to be
hot for the 2018
fishing season?
First and
foremost is a
product called
Fish Nip. We
all love Pro-
Cure Bloody
Tuna Super
Gel and Fish
Nip takes
the concept
of adding
tuna scent
to your pre-
sentations
to a whole
new level!
Fish Nip is
basically chopped dark meat
tuna with some proprietary
oils and attractants added, all
stored inside a vacuum sealed
7 ounce package.
Fish Nip is super versatile.
You can use it to pack inside
of lures with an internal scent
chamber like Brad’s Super
Baits or you can use it for a
bait wrap for Flatfish style
salmon lures. If the scent of
Fish Nip doesn’t meet your
situational needs you can add
any number of different scents
to it. You can even mix it with
other meats such as minced
shrimp or crawfish meat to trig-
ger strikes from the most finicky
salmon.
Beyond that you can wrap
Fish Nip in a mesh spawn sack
and use it as stand-alone bait for
salmon, steelhead, catfish and
more.
I’ve got two brand new pack-
ages of Fish Nip and I can’t wait
to start experimenting. If it works
half as well as Pro-Cure Bloody
Tuna Super Gel the fish better
look out!
Moving on, adding scent to
lures and of course your hands
has never been a problem with
Pro-Cure. The scents go on easy
and last for a very long time…
Too long if you ask some of the
wives and girlfriends out there!
Well Pro-Cure feels your pain
and as a result they’ve come
up with Bad Azz Hand & Lure
by Cal Kellogg
Soap. That’s
right a 4 ounce
bottle of soap
complete
with a pump
applicator
that takes fish
scent off your
lures AND
hands.
Since
none of us
really know
what is in
Pro-Cure
beyond real
bait, who
better to
design a
prod-
uct to
remove
Pro-Cure
when you want it gone?
You might be curious if I
picked up any scent at the Pro-
Cure booth this January? Yes,
but only one and that should be a
clue as to how deadly the scent I
left the Pro-Cure booth with re-
ally is, since I could have chosen
just about anything from Steve’s
deep supply.
Of all the scents to choose
from I took a large guide size
bottle of Anise Bloody Tuna
Super Gel, because in my ex-
perience that scent is deadly for
everything from sturgeon and
stripers to trout and kokanee!
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line of products, but time tested
and brand new visit them online
at www.pro-cure.com.
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