Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3825 Nov 22- Dec 6 | Page 20

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Nov 22 - Dec 6, 2019
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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PARDEE LAKE
cont.
recreation area will reopen on February
13, 2020.
Pardee received a total of 40,000
pounds of rainbow trout and 1,000 pounds
of channel cats in the 2019 season.
The NorCal Trout Angler’s Challenge
event at Lake Pardee on October 12
drew a total of 73 adult participants and
11 youth participants, according to Vince
Harris of Angler’s Press.
Mike Wilson won first place in the adult
division with a 4.42 lb. rainbow. The
second through fifth place winners were
(2) Mike Wilson, 4.42; (3) Dean Moules,
3.57; (4) Jeff Garcia, 2.32; and (5) Kyle
Garcia, 2.01.
Andrew Lawlor won first place in the
youth division with a 1.6 lb. rainbow.
The second through fifth place winners
were (2) Mykala Smith, 1.53; (3) Damien
Fuentes, 1.5; (4) Natalya Smith, 1.28; and
Ryder Salvensin, 1.27.
After the NTAC event, anglers continued
to catch a mixture of rainbow trout,
kokanee, smallmouth bass, largemouth
bass and catfish at Lake Pardee.
PYRAMID LAKE
Cutthroat Fishing Heats Up!
RENO - “This fall has been a little
different at Pyramid Lake, but things are
starting to shape up now,” reported Sam
Shallow of Deep Water Guide Service.
“The water temperature has been
coming down slowly and now it’s in the
middle 50’s. The water temperature has
kept the fish on the move, but we’ve been
able to keep up with them. We are still
seeing green algae and grass in the water
in some areas, so we’ve had to work to
find those clean zones and we are going
the extra mile to make sure our gear is
free from junk,” said Shallow.
“For us the south end has been the
hot spot. We are trolling Shallow Glass
spinners and other lures off downriggers.
We’ve been getting fish anywhere from
15 to 70 feet deep. This week we’ve
started getting a few fish on our toplines,
so the fish are gradually coming to the
surface and that’s a good thing. I expect
to have very good action at Pyramid soon.
Everything depends on the weather and
water temperature at this point,” Shallow
concluded.
The Reno Fly Shop reports improved
action on the fly fishing front. Their guides
report that the fish are on the move and
that schools show up randomly throughout
the day. They are focusing on deeper
beaches and drop offs as the fish move
from the depths into shallower water.
QUARRY/SHADOW
CLIFFS/CHABOT LAKES
Trout Plants Continue in East
Bay
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Regional Park District.
The regulations for the Arroyo Del Valle
Ponds include an EBRPD Daily Fishing
Permit, CA State Fishing License. Fishing
is catch and release, barbless hooks with
artificial lures only. Float tubes only are
allowed.
The park district stocked Lake Chabot
with 1000 pounds of rainbows the week of
November 11-15.
Michel Rauch from Clovis, CA caught a
2 lb. rainbow trout while trolling with a lure
and worm combo by Chabot Dam.
with zero action. I tried spoons,
threaded worms and minnow
plugs,” Kellogg related.
“I had another three hours
or so to fish at that point so I
switched over to a Rebel crawfish
crankbait and immediately started
catching spotted bass. I caught
fish off both downed trees and
small rocky points. The surface
temperature was in the middle
to upper 50’s and the spots were
really feisty. The biggest fish of
the day was about 14 inches long
and I got over a dozen fish total,”
said Kellogg.
“Hopefully Rollins will be planted
soon, but even if it doesn’t we
should start seeing some browns
show up for trollers pulling
minnow baits. Traditionally late
November and December are
good months for targeting browns
at Rollins,” Kellogg concluded.
Reports are few and far
between from Scotts Flat. Catfish
action is likely over for the year,
but bass are certainly available.
If a trout plant occurs both
boaters and bankies will prosper.
REDDING
Late Fall Run Salmon Arrive!
REDDING- “The fishing has been fair
to good depending on the day,” reported
Mike Bogue of Mike Bogue’s Guide
Service. “My boat hasn’t been getting
limits, but we’ve been getting salmon
every day and mixing in some trout fishing
trips too.”
“On the salmon side, I’m seeing more
and more late fall run fish arriving. They
are outstanding quality fish and some of
them are very large. That bite should get
stronger and stronger right up until the
season ends,” said Bogue.
Mike loves pulling plugs, so he starts the
day back trolling with Flatfish. When the
plug bite ramps down, he finishes out the
day drifting and bouncing Pautzke cured
roe.
Robert Weese of Northern California
Guide Service offers trips on both the
Feather and Sacramento. Robert’s
clients have been scoring while fishing a
combination of plugs and roe.
“Plugs work early and then we start
mixing in some roe,” says Weese.
“The trout fishing has been really good.
The weather is nice, bugs are hatching
and of course there are spawning salmon
in the river, so the trout are on the bite.
Most of the trout are anywhere from 14
to 18 inches long, but 20 plus inchers are
common. You can catch them a variety
of different ways. I’ve mainly been back
trolling with Mag Lips and other small
plugs and that is working very well,”
Bogue related.
If you’d like to experience the thrill
of hooking a big late run chinook, both
Robert Weese and Mike Bogue are top
sticks when it comes to putting anglers on
big bad salmon. To book a trip with Weese
of Northern California Guide Service, give
him a ring at [phone]. To arrange
a trip with Mike Bogue of Mike Bogue’s
Guide Service reach out to Mike at (530)
246-8457.
SACRAMENTO AREA
Trollers Work for Bright
Chinooks
This angler was trolling the Sacramento with Captain
SACRAMENTO – Salmon
Rob on October 25 and was rewarded with a monster
fishing is tough for anglers
chrome bright king salmon.
Photo courtesy of RUSTIC ROB’S GUIDE SERVICE, Yuba fishing in the Sacramento River
City. in the Capital City region, but
Slough,” said Alan Fong of Fisherman’s
Warehouse. “There was no grass there,
so my fishing partner and I started fishing.
We got stuck for about five minnows in the
sand getting in and out of there since it
was so shallow.”
“We caught and released over 20
stripers in the 5 to 10 lb. class while
tossing out glide baits in only 1 feet of
water,” he said. “The stripers don’t like
the grass, so they go to areas without the
grass.”
“We then went flipping with beavers for
largemouth bass,” he noted. “We had five
fish weighing a total of 20 pounds, a 4 lb
average, by 10:30 a.m.

- Dan Bacher
ROLLINS LAKE
Bass Provide Top Sport!
RIO VISTA AREA
West and North Ends of Delta
Kick Out Quality Stripers
STOCKTON - The grass in the water
continues to be the big problem for
anglers targeting stripers throughout the
Delta. If you can find an area free of the
obnoxious grass, you can catch a lot of
bass. The western and the far northern
ends of the Delta are yielding the top
striper action.
Virgil’s Bait and Ice House in Suisun City
reported 186 entries in their Striper Derby
on November 1, 2 and 3. There were 81
big fish entries and 102 fish weighed in
totaling 948.75 pounds.
Cameron Oliver caught the big fish,
weighing 28 pounds, and Kenny Peschel
won first place. The fish hit in Montezuma
Slough, Suisun Bay and Grizzly Bay.
Sturgeon action remains “pretty darn
good” from Grizzly Bay to the Benicia
Bridge, reported Barry Canevaro of the
Fish Hookers Sportfishing. Anglers are
hooking most of the fish on salmon roe
from 17 to 35 feet deep.
Alan Fong, manager of Fisherman’s
Warehouse in Sacramento, went north for
his fish. “While out fishing in the Liberty
Island area, I could see in the distance
stripers breaking the water in Lisbon
COLFAX - Fish
Sniffer editor Cal
Kellogg took a trip
to Rollins Lake this
week hoping to
tangle with some
trout from Hobie
Pro Angler 14, but
trout proved hard
to find. In the end,
Cal salvaged the
day, by turning his
attention to bass.
“Well it’s a familiar
story at Rollins
Lake. The CDFW
hasn’t planted any
rainbows so trout
fishing is tough,”
said Kellogg.
“The DFW just
doesn’t seem to
be planting fish
like they used to
and as a result the
fishing at places like
Rollins and Scotts
Flat really suffers
for guys that like to
target trout. I spent
two hours trolling
from Long Ravine
all the way up to
the Goose Neck in
the Bear River Arm
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the fish being caught are big and
bright.
“I fished the Wounded Warriors event,”
said Rob Reimers of Rustic Rob’s Guide
Service. “We had ninety warriors and
forty boats. The fishing was pretty tough;
I know of only know of 4 fish caught but
one of them was a 14 pounder caught by
one of my guys. We trolled with Brad’s Cut
Plugs.’
“On my next trip in the Sacramento
area, the fishing was better. We hooked
two fish, landing a 15 pounder and losing
another fish while using Brad’s Cut Plugs,”
he noted.
Uncle Larry Barnes at Sacramento Pro
Tackle also reported slow fishing on the
Sacramento for most anglers.
“Seven salmon were hooked by the
boats fishing at Discovery Park one day
this week, but they got just 2 fish to the
boat,” he said. “Boaters are trolling with
Silvertron spinners.”
“It’s not a red hot bite, but with the prime
56 degree water, at least they are on the
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FREMONT – Rainbow trout fishing at
Horseshoe Lake, located in the Quarry
Lakes Recreation Area, Shadow Cliffs and
Chabot has improved with trout plants
and cooler weather, but few anglers are
reporting in with their fish.
The park district stocked Horseshoe
with 750 pounds of rainbows the week of
November 11-14 and 1000 pounds the
week of November 18-22.
Zack D. of Oakland caught a two-pound
and five-pound trout while fishing with a
spoon near the boat ramp at Horseshoe.
Paul H. of Hayward caught three trout
while fishing off of the ADA fishing pier
with a Mice Tail and rainbow PowerBait.
The weights of the fish weighed between
one-and-a-half and eight pounds.
The park district planted Shadow Cliffs
with 1000 pounds of rainbows the week
of November 11-15. No reports of recent
catches were available from the East Bay
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