Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3906 Feb 28- Mar 13 | Page 13

Feb 28-Mar 13, 2020
FRESHWATER
VOL.39 • ISS. 6
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The Low Flow section of the Feather River is one of those rivers that have
stable and wadeable flows and is fishable all year. The Feather River flows
out of the Sierra’s into the central valley at the town of Oroville, CA which
is located a little over an hour north of Sacramento CA on the east side of the
valley.
At the town of Oroville, the river is split into two sections where most of
the flow is diverted into Thermalito Afterbay. The remaining flow continues
through the original river channel to eventually meet up with diverted flow
about eight miles downstream. This section is called the Low Flow Section and
because the flows stay low all year, it’s always wadeable.
It’s one of those waters where you can either access it from a well maintained
levy road that parallels the river.
Several runs of Steelhead make their way up the Feather River to the Low
Flow section between October and April. The fish average about 4 to 6 lbs and
look like footballs with tails and mouths at opposite ends. After the Salmon
spawn is over, the Steelhead remain in the river to spawn in January and
February.
In the spring, what is left of the original somewhat smaller indigenous
Steelhead, make their spawning run. Plus there are what are locally called
“Half Pounders,” juvenile Steelhead that come up to the Low Flow section
from the Pacific Coast estuaries to feed on the abundant caddis, stone and
mayfly nymphs that get active in the spring.
FRESHWATER REPORTS:
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degrees. The water remains murky, with
about a 2-foot visibility near the marina.
Once you get past the marine, the water
DAVIS LAKE cont.
clears up to about 10 foot visibility.
Fish Sniffer big fish honors go to Daryl
place with a 23 inch rainbow weighing 3
Hill
from San Jose, who caught an 8.75
pounds. He won a 3 foot tall trophy and
lb.
rainbow
in the Lower Narrows while
$125.
fishing
a
Power
Worm.
William Cary of Portola finished in third
Chris
Richards
from Sunnyvale landed
place with a 22 inch rainbow weighing 2.9
an
8.20
lb.
trout
at
the East Beach while
pounds. He won a 1-1/2 foot trophy and
fishing
with
a
nightcrawler.
$75.
Alex Lai and Patrick Leung from
- Dan Bacher
Pleasanton teamed up to catch a 5.8 lb.
rainbow in the Upper Narrows. They were
using a Kastmaster.
Art Garces and Tina Garces from
DEL VALLE LAKE
Livermore bagged a 6 lb. trout at the
Venados Camp while using nightcrawlers..
Trout Dominate Late Winter
Hot spots for trout continue to be
Catches
across from the Marina, Lowers Narrows,
LIVERMORE - If you want to hook
Venados Group site, Badger Cove,
hefty, hard-fighting trout, Lake Del Valle is
Swallow Bay, and the Dam, The top lures
a premiere destination to fish in the East
for trout include Rapalas, Kastmasters
Bay Region at this time.
in green/orange, chartreuse Mice Tails,
The East Bay Regional Park District
gold Kastmasters and fire tiger Panther
planted 1000 pounds of rainbows in the
Martins. The favorite trout baits are
reservoir the week of February 10-14
rainbow color Power Bait and large
and another 1000 pounds the week of
nightcrawlers.
February 24-28.
Anglers didn’t weigh in any stripers or
The surface water temperature is 48
catfish over the past couple of weeks,
but fishing for both
species should
improve with the
warming weather.
Use anchovies,
clams and
swimbaits for striped
bass and sardines
and anchovies for
catfish.
Black bass fishing
remains slow as the
fish hold in deep
water, but the fish
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DON PEDRO LAKE
Bass Are Gorging on Shad
were trout last week on the surface, but
they were actually bass.,” he stated.
“The bass are loaded with small shad,
and they are spitting up shad. At 11:00
a.m., I switched over to the 3/8th-ounce
Berserk brown/purple jig, and I landed
all of my bass on the jig at depths from
20 to 40 feet. The bass had actually
moved up from last week despite the
water temperature dropping from 54 to 52
degrees.,” Gomez advised.
The team of Cory Kerber and
Jeremy Pitts took first place in the BBT
tournament at 14.49 pounds, and the BBT
will hold their Mother Lode opener this
coming Saturday, February 15th at Don
Pedro.
- Dave Hurley
LA GRANGE – The bass action at Don
Pedro is improving after an 18.00-pound
limit took first during last weekend’s 47
boat Merced Bass Club event, another
limit at 14.49 pounds took the opener
for the Central Division of the Best Bass
Tournaments with 61 boats on Saturday.
Mike Gomez of Berserk Baits fished
both the Merced Bass Club and the Best
Bass Tournament events, and he said,
“The bite is kind of weird as we had 11.32
pounds last week with 10.75 pounds this
week. We found a better grade of bass
in deeper water last week as we were
scoring between 50 and 60 feet, and I
caught all of my fish on underspins. This
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week, we only received a single hit on the
underspin.
“We
started
out in the
morning
chasing
bass on
the surface
that were
feeding on
shad. My
brother,
Ruben,
picked up
two right
away on
topwater,
and we
followed
them
around for
a couple
of hours
without
any more
success.
We had
Big trout are on the bite for anglers soaking bait at Collins Lake. Both the dam
thought
and the swim beach have been good spots in recent days.
these
Photo courtesy of THE COLLINS LAKE RECREATION AREA, Oregon House.