Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition 3814 June 21- July 5 2019 | Page 21

RIO VISTA cont. largest striper coming on a shallow-troll with a P-Line Angry Eye Minnow. The fish are scattered, and everything has slowed down, but I know that the downstreamers will be coming back through the Delta all through the month of June. These fish were spawned out this week,” he said. ROLLINS/SCOTTS FLAT LAKES Anglers Return After Storms COLFAX - “I missed fishing for a week because of the cold wet weather, but I was back out on the water yesterday,” reported Jason Pleece of Meadow Vista. “I hit Rollins from my kayak and did pretty well.” “I picked up 3 pan size rainbows and a 14-inch brown while pulling an orange Hum Dinger. I caught all the fish off the peninsula that separates the Greenhorn and Bear River arms. I got the brown right on the surface. The rainbows came while trolling about 15 feet deep with lead core,” said Pleece. “When the trout bite pinched out I switched over to bass and picked up a half dozen spotted bass to 13.5 inches while tossing 4 inch whacky rigged Senkos. All in all, Rollins is fishing well,” Pleece concluded. It’s been tough to get a report from Scotts Flat Reservoir beyond that there has been decent topwater and crankbait action in the marina at first light. Anglers are utilizing small Rebel Pop R’s Rapala Shad Raps to hook smallmouth bass to 2.5 pounds. - Dan Bacher Trout and Catfish Lead Early Summer Angling Parade SACRAMENTO AREA Shad and Catfish Top Angling Menu SACRAMENTO – The shad action has switched from the Sacramento River in downtown to the American, Feather and upper Sacramento rivers, although there are still some shad being taken at Discovery Park. “The shad fishing isn’t hot as it was, but some anglers are still catching fish at Discovery Park,” said Dennis Pfanner at Sacramento Pro Tackle. “The water has come Greg landed this gigantic rainbow after an epic battle while up on the Sacramento; fishing Lake Almanor with Captain Bryan Roccucci on June 7. anglers are using 8 oz. Photo courtesy of BIG DADDY SPORTFISHING, Quincy. torpedo weights to get their darts and grubs down to the shad. They’re doing best fishing chartreuse grubs on 1/8 and For catfish, anglers should fish 1/16 oz. jigheads.” mackerel, chicken liver, clams and other Striper fishing has slowed down locally, baits in Lisbon Slough, the Sutter Bypass although anglers are still hooking some and other sloughs. bass on jumbo minnows or pileworms for Rio Vista to Colusa. As we continued down the bank Jarred continued to get bit on his swimbait rigged on an under-spin head. When the bite died down for a moment, we decided to head back to the first spot of the day. As soon as I drop my Minn Kota 112 Fortrex, I began working an island break, midway through my cast my rod got thumped. I swung as hard as I could and my rod immediately doubled over. My drag started running and my heart started pumping! Several minutes later I landed a solid 10 to 12-pound class striper. By this point we had figured the bite out and we were getting hit every other cast. Jarred landed another striper and I hook Arlando and his partner Jarred used a up with another giant striper. Once again, variety of different baits during their spring the striper outsmarted me and it threw my striper hunt, but the most effective offering was an underspin jig head paired with a soft S-waver from its mouth. plastic swimbait. About then the tide really started to Photo by ARLANDO ABELLA, Fish Sniffer Staff. come in and the bite really fired up. We decided to run to our final spot and really put a hurt on some spring bass. As we were enjoying catching schoolie sized fish Jarred made a phone call. As Jarred was talking on the phone and not 100% focused on his bait, the biggest fish of the day decided to take advantage of the moment and catch both of us off guard. Jarred‘s bait was next to the boat and a huge 20-pound class fish decided to strike. 3720 Of course, that fish ROCKLIN AUBURN easily got away! 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Olga and Dalia of El Cerrito landed three trout while fishing PowerBait at the tower. Mika Valdovinos of San Francisco caught his limit of rainbows weighing up to 1.75 pounds while fishing chartreuse PowerBait left of the pines. Catfish are hitting chicken liver, large nightcrawlers and Rat-L-Traps and other lures in increasing numbers. Tsai Industries planted 1,000 lbs. of catfish at the boat launch on June 2, Shoemaker noted. If you want to hook crappie, target them with Atomic Teasers and red worms. The lake level is 309.4 feet in elevation and the surface water temperature is 63.6 degrees. CONTINUED ON PG 20 continued from page 1 you would like to battle some stripers and maybe take home a striper dinner the bite is still very good in both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. Small plastic swimbaits and jigging spoons are working very well. 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