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VOL . 37 • ISS . 07 |
FRESHWATER |
March 16 - 30 , 2018 |
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patterns is your top prospect .
The lake level continues to rise slowly . The reservoir is currently holding 1,456,596 acre-feet of water , 41 percent of capacity and 60 percent of average . The lake elevation is 725.13 feet in elevation .
- Dan Bacher
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PYRAMID LAKE
Shore Cutthroat Bite Gains Momentum
RENO - The shore bite at Pyramid Lake is growing stronger with each passing week . Where the shallows were devoid of fish a month ago , now shore anglers have a shot at bagging a real whopper of a trout .
The numbers of Cutthroat invading the shallows are not great at this time , but some real bruisers have been showing up in recent catches . The biggest fish have been over twenty pounds and running up to almost unbelievable weights of twenty four pounds . The best action has been for those throwing marabou jigs on ¼ oz . jig heads .
Fly fishermen are having difficulty casting far enough to reach the deeper troughs that the fish are holding in . That should change as more and more fish enter the shallows in late February and into March .
As more and more fish move into shallower water , the boat bite will continue to decline . This is the time of year that boaters typically struggle to find numbers of fish and size of fish .
The best strategy for boaters is to anchor off a beach that is holding fish and toss a marabou jig back towards shore . Trolling will still catch fish , but these often are smaller fish that have no
High school angler and P-Line staffer Austin Splaine caught these monster largemouth bass using P-Line Tactical Fluorocarbon in the Delta this February .
Photo courtesy of P-LINE , South San Francisco .
interest in spawning . It ’ s not uncommon for trollers during the spring months to find concentrations of 16-19 ” bright silver fish that have no interest in breeding .
- Mike McNeilly
QUARRY LAKES
Big Trout Bonanza Continues
FREMONT – Rainbow trout continue to dominate the catches at Horseshoe Lake , located in the Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area , this March . The last two plants by the East Bay Regional Park District featured 750 pounds of rainbows each .
Bernie Helwig of Milpitas caught a sixpound trout while fishing a Rapala from his boat . Fred Wong of Fremont caught a
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