Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 2724 Nov 9-23 | Page 21

VOL.37 • ISS. 24
TAHOE
Nov 9 - 23, 2018
FRESHWATER
cont.
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Marina on the
Nevada side of
the lake.
Regardless of
where you depart
from you’ll be
fishing in comfort
with a skipper
that knows all
the secrets for
fooling Tahoe’s
macks and trout.
Mickey Daniels
of Mickey’s Big
Mack Charters
has been
successfully
trolling Carnelian
Bay. Mickey
starts out trolling
quickly in shallow
water before
Massive stripers are being caught in the West Delta by anglers fishing with Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon Sportfishing.
slowing down
This big fish gobbled live bait during a mid-October adventure.
and working
Photo courtesy of DRAGON SPORTFISHING, Pittsburg.
progressively
deeper. His clients
are hooking
[phone].
macks running up to 8 pounds.
TRINITY RIVER/LAKE
Few anglers are targeting black bass,
Steelhead
rainbow trout or king salmon at Trinity
Lake. However, a couple of deer hunters
Hitting Plugs,
did some bass fishing and caught
Spinners and
and released some largemouths and
Flies
smallmouths to 2-1/2 pounds while
split shotting with plastic worms on the
WEAVERVILLE
reservoir.
– Steelhead are
The releases to the Trinity River below
starting to show in
Lewiston Dam went down to 300 cfs on
increasing numbers
October 16, according to the Bureau of
on the Trinity from
Reclamation
the mouth of the
Trinity Lake is holding 1,472,738 acre
North Fork to Del
feet of water, 60 percent of capacity and
Loma, as well as
91percent of average.
upriver.
- Dan Bacher
“The drift boaters
are catching more
steelhead than the
bank fishermen
now,” said Tim
WEST DELTA
Brady of Brady’s
Outdoors. “They are
Red Hot Sturgeon Bite Erupts
pulling plugs and
in Upper Suisun Bay!
tossing out spinners
BRANNAN ISLAND - Very good action
and Glo Bugs for the
is on tap for West Delta anglers fishing
steelies.”
the lower reaches of the Sacramento and
Fly fishermen
San Joaquin Rivers and the upper end of
are hooking the
Suisun Bay with both sturgeon and striped
steelhead while
bass battling anglers. The sturgeon bite is
drifting rubberlegs,
better than the striper bite, but some very
stoneflies, silver
large stripers have been showing up.
Hiltons and brindle
Captain Hayden Mullins of Dragon
bugs in the riffles.
The fly trolling bite has kicked off at Eagle Lake. Limits are the rule. This big ‘bow was landed on October 11.
Sportfishing
has been putting his clients
The
steelhead
range
Photo courtesy of BIG DADDY’S GUIDE SERVICE, Chester.
on
keeper
sturgeon
on a daily basis while
from 2 to 7 pounds.
soaking roe and eel below Pittsburg.
Most
of
the
salmon
-
While sturgeon have been the main
are getting dark
target for Mullins, he’s been spending
as they get ready
some time soaking large live and dead
to spawn. Anglers
baits for trophy stripers. Those trips are
may monitor the
resulting in stripers that run 15 to 30
quota status of
pounds.
open and closed
Captain David Hammond kicked off the
sections of the
month of October with limit style striper
Klamath and Trinity
trolling action in the Sacramento and San
rivers by calling the
Joaquin. Since then he has transitioned
information hotline at
to sturgeon fishing
because the sturgeon
bite is so good.
Hammond’s
SPORTFISHING
clients
are landing
est.1953
a combination of
Lake Tahoe’s
keeper and oversize
Largest
sturgeon, with many
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year-round fishing
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“We got our fish while working the
north end of the lake in water that
ranged from 60 to 150 feet deep.
The last time I hit Tahoe we had a
rainbow. This week it was all about
mackinaw. We got 22 fish in two
days of trolling. The smallest mack
went about a pound and out top
fish was an 11.6 pound monsters.
My brother Peter got the biggest
fish,” exclaimed Brooks.
The Team at Tahoe Sportfishing
has been putting their clients on full
limits of mackinaw during half day
adventures. Minnows and blades
have been the best offering for fish
that average 3 to 5 pounds, but
much bigger double digit macks are
showing up regularly.
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fleet on Tahoe. They offer both
open and private charters and
both morning and afternoon trips.
Some trips depart from the Ski
Run Marina down south and some
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