DaiLy Trips looking for big largemouths are finding them . When the fish are active they will come up and smash frogs worked around the edges of weed mats . When the fish are lethargic punching and flipping with creature baits is the way to go .
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SOUTHERN OREGON ROUNDUP cont .
fishing is open from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mountain . Anglers may have two salmon per day but is closed to retention of coho except during the selective and non-selective coho seasons .
Surfperch fishing has been good when ocean swells are small . Surfperch anglers will do the best fishing with sand shrimp or Berkley Gulp sand worms . Fishing is typically best on the incoming tide .
Recreational crabbing is open along the entire Oregon coast .
LAKE TAHOE
Macks Bite As Kokanee Bite Slowly Builds
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - High Sierra action at Lake Tahoe has been great for mackinaw holding in deep water and more kokanee are beginning to show . It looks as if Tahoe anglers are in for an exciting August .
Gene St . Dennis of Blue Ribbon Charters reported limit style mack action on his most recent trip with lakers ranging up to 17 pounds . Minnows teamed with white dodgers were the ticket for success .
Sugar Pine Point , Dollar Point , CalNeva Point and the south shore shelves have all been giving up fish for St . Denis .
Mickey Daniels of Mickey ’ s Big Mack Charters has been enjoying solid action at the north end of the lake . Mickey ’ s clients have been hooking mackinaw up to 7 pounds . Some fish are being kept for the table while the others are tagged and released .
Mickey hooks his fish on a variety of offerings including Shasta Tackle Kok-A-Nuts teamed with Sling Blade Dodgers .
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Tim Burges of Sacramento headed back up to Tahoe again last week in search of kokanee . His first trip of the season back in the middle of July yielded two salmon to 17.5 inches .
“ We hit the south end of the lake again and found a few fish . The bite is clearly improving . We boated 3 fish to 16 inches and lost 4 more , plus my son got an 8 pound mack on a kokanee spinner . If we would have boated the fish we lost , we would have had a pretty good score ,” laughed Burges .
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WEAVERVILLE – If you want to hook kokanee salmon at Trinity Lake at this time , you need to fish deep , at 50 to 60 feet .
“ Trollers are picking up kokanee to 15 inches while trolling with Wiggle Hoochies , Apexes and other lures , tipped with white shoepeg corn near the dam and in the Papoose Creek arm ,” revealed Tim Brady at Trinity Outdoors . “ Anglers are also picking up and occasional landlocked king salmon in the 3 to 4 lb . class .”
He hasn ’ t heard any reports on trout fishing success lately . For planted , holdover and wild rainbows , Brady advised ban anglers and boaters to fish in the mouths of the tributaries , including the East Fork , Stewarts Fork , Swift Creek and Upper Trinity . The top enticers include marshmallows ,
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Paulina Peak Tackle dodgers and lures are working well at Stampede Reservoir . These big salmon were caught July 23 .
Photo courtesy of PAULINA PEAK TACKLE , Reno . nightcrawlers , PowerBait , Kastmasters , spinners and other offerings . “ With the hot weather , smallmouth and largemouth bass fishing is best early in the morning or late in the evening before dark ,” Brady tipped . “ Boaters are fishing Senkos and Gitzits , as well as top water lures .”
Persistent fishermen are picking up a few spring-run Chinook salmon while fishing tuna balls and salmon roe in the Trinity River . Boaters and shore anglers are picking up fish to 17 pounds from Lewiston to Junction City .
Trinity Lake is holding 2,008,006 feet of water , 82 percent of capacity and 103 percent of average at press time .
WEST DELTA
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BRANNAN ISLAND - There are plenty of fish to be caught in the West Delta , but with great action in S . F . Bay and the ocean relatively few anglers are fishing at this time .
According to the staff at Delta Dan ’ s Outdoors , bait anglers in spots like Honker Bay and the mouth of Broad Slough are picking up the occasional keeper striper while soaking anchovies and sardines , but you ’ ve got to deal with lots of shakers to score a keeper .
Sturgeon fishing has been productive in deep water areas near Pittsburg during the outgoing tide . Salmon roe , eel and pile worms are the winning baits .
For maximum fun and action , you might consider a Delta catfish adventure in one of the sloughs leading off the Sacramento River . The cats are holding in 10 to 20 feet of water and are gobbling a variety of baits including clams , night crawlers and anchovies . Targeting cats is a great way to spend a warm summer evening and it ’ s a good trip for families with youngsters because there will be plenty of action . Bass anglers
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DaiLy Trips looking for big largemouths are finding them . When the fish are active they will come up and smash frogs worked around the edges of weed mats . When the fish are lethargic punching and flipping with creature baits is the way to go .
Bass up to and beyond 9 pounds have been boated in recent days
WILDHORSE LAKE
Go Deeper For The Trout
ELKO – With surface water temperatures well above 70 degrees , trout fishing at Wild Horse is slowing down and anglers are having their best luck early in the morning before it gets too hot or by fishing in deeper water , according to Joe Doucette of the Nevada Department of Wildlife ( NDOW ).
“ Fishing has been productive for boaters who are fishing between 16 and 18 feet deep ,” he tipped . “ Fishing from shore in the canyon that leads to the dam where the water gets deep quickly has been productive .”
“ Bait fishermen should use the usual worms or PowerBait for trout ,” Doucette said . “ Sherbet PowerBait seems to be the ticket , though other colors will still work . Fly rodders should be trying chironomids , hares ears , PT ’ s , damselfly nymphs , damsel adults , mayflies and wooly buggers .”
The campground and fish cleaning station are open and on a first come first served basis . Wildhorse has been stocked with approximately 80,000 trout this year .
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