Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3823 Oct 25-Nov 8 | Page 15

FRESHWATER REPORTS: DEL VALLE LAKE 6,00 pounds of trout stocked in September, including 2,000 pounds of Eagle Lake strain trout, and holdovers. CLEAR LAKE LAKE cont. “All methods of fishing are had an awesome bite for about proving successful now,” said 6 hours with lots of quality bass Jim Graham of J&J Grizzly from 3 to 4.5 lbs. We only caught Store and Camping Resort. a few in the one to two pound “The fall bite has definitely range.” turned on. We have had “The dinks were feeding too and several reports of limits being Mike caught one 4 or 5 inches,” caught fairly quickly. The fish he said. “We lost one or two big seem to be biting anything ones - but that is normal. I don’t that is put in front of them.” want to say too much since Mike “Bank fishermen are is fishing an upcoming tournament using worms and Rainbow in a few weeks. We just stayed PowerBait. Trollers are using in the south end, covering lots of Baby Simon (green and water. “ copper flame seem to be the “There was lots of pre-fishing best). The fly fishermen are going on. One point had 3 boats using rust and olive midge on it! The lake had small white patterns,” said Graham. caps all day but was fishable in “The fishing is so good that his 20 ft Ranger! This is a weird yesterday one of our bank time of year to have semi rough anglers reported catching water in the morning.” and releasing three trout – The water temperature was 66 and his daughter reported to 68 degrees. To book a bass catching and releasing 35 trip with “Lunker Larry,” call (530) fish to 26 inches while using 674-0276. PowerBait.” “My partner, Darrell Branch, and “A boater came in the store placed thirteenth in the recent today and I advised him to Triton Owner’s Tournament,” said Justin caught this big rainbow while fishing Collins Lake this troll with Baby Simon lures,” Guercio. “We caught 34 pounds in September. It looks like fall fishing is going to be great at Collins! Photo courtesy of the COLLINS LAKE RECREATION AREA, Oregon added Graham. “After fishing two days. First place was 43-1/2 House. for just an hour, he came back pounds out of 65 boats. We fished into the store with his limit of the mid-lake with drop shot rigs rainbows ranging from 20 to and reaction baits. Our biggest 27 inches long; he reported releasing the bass was 4-1/2 pounds, while the biggest DAVIS LAKE smaller fish.” fish in the event was 7.90 pounds.” Lake Davis is holding 67,364 acre feet Rainbow Trout Fishing Booms To book a bass fishing adventure with of water, 81 percent of capacity and 117 PORTOLA – If you want to catch Tom Guercio, call [phone]. percent of average. - Dan Bacher rainbow trout at Lake Davis, now’s the - Dan Bacher time to do it. The fish are a mixture of the CONTINUED FROM PG 7 my Hum Dinger Spoon or Speedy Shiner working behind the blade and its fish on! In the fall and early winter, I know the trout are near the surface and looking to feed. In shallow water, they have no problem zeroing in on a lure or fly or whatever. When I’m pulling dodgers at these times I’m using them almost exclu- sively to add action to one of three things, a threaded worm, a grub or a fly. And this is typically a slow speed endeavor after I’ve already failed to catch fish with fast moving plugs and spoons. My go to dodgers for this work are not big hard thumpers. Instead I use subtle blades like Diamond Backs, Sidewinders and Sep’s Strike Masters. These are all blades that work well when trolled from 1 to 1.8ish MPH…In other words they are perfect for trolling a juicy threaded worm behind! Big Flies Equal Big Trout! Big trolling flies teamed with an Action Disc are big, bold and represent a substan- tial meal yet they are something that can be trolled slowly and best of all they are an offering that trout don’t see as often as they see standard issue spoons and plugs. When my pet spoons and minnow plugs fail to produce, I don’t immediately reach for my worms and grubs. Instead I’ll cut my speed down to about 1.5 to 2 and give streamers teamed with Action Discs a go. I’ll typically run a natural colored fly on one rod and a bright pattern on the other and allow the fish to show me what they HOW TO By Cal Kellogg want. Flies consistently produce some of the biggest trout of the year for me! Get Down With Leadcore! Getting depth is always a concern for trout anglers. Sure, topline trolling is highly effective when the water gets chilly, but there are still times when you’ll want to get down 20 or 30 feet. Of course, you can accomplish this with downriggers, but you can do it more simplistically with less hassle by employing one of my hybrid leadcore rigs. Here’s how my rigs are set up. A variety of fiberglass trout trolling rod will work for this rig, you just want one that isn’t overly stiff or overly soft…A medium to medium soft action with some backbone is what you’re looking for. The rod is matched with an Abu Garcia 5500 Line Counter reel. The reel is spooled with 200 yards of 20-pound braid, which is about the diameter of 4-pound mono. To the end of the braid I splice on 3 colors of leadcore. To the end of the leadcore I splice on 20 feet of 15 or 17-pound fluorocarbon tipped with a swivel. 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The water level is lowering as the lake level is dropped in preparation for winter rains,” The trout fishing should pick up, now that that trout plants have begun, with the first plant going in the week of October 7. “Three weeks ago, we received a catfish plant,” said Captain Jacob. “They like the narrows and swallow bay and all the coves with structure as well as fallen trees. Anchovies, chicken livers, nightcrawlers and mackerel have been top producers.” “The bass are out on the open water hanging around rock points, weed lines, drop offs, and any structure you can find. Lots of smallmouth in the one to two pound range are showing, with most being caught on jerk baits, crankbaits, and grub jigs. If you like trolling, the smallies can be found in the Upper and Lower Narrows in about 15 ft of water along rock walls on Panther Martins we also recommend night crawlers,” he advised. “The stripers are averaging between five and ten pounds.,” he said. “The striper boils are continuing, and fishermen are taking full advantage of the opportunity. The boils are only lasting from about 6:00 am – 8:00 am. After the boils die down the best bet is frozen cut baits like anchovies or sardines. The hot striper lures are anything that could mimic a shad or any 4 foot 8 or 10-pound fluorocarbon leader. while fast trolling spoons or Rapalas. With this rig I put on a lure or bait and Leadcore allows you to reach moderate run out all the leadcore. Then I spool the depths with a lot less disturbance you braid backing off and keep track of how can with a downrigger. Leadcore isn’t much line I’m putting out using the line invasive. Its weight is distributed over its counter. 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