Sacramento Bee RSS Feed
Well-known member
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2009
- Messages
- 442
- Reaction score
- 1
TOP PICKS
LAKE OROVILLE--The bass bite is wide open with some anglers reporting 100-fish days. The FLW Stren Series Tournament will be in town all week putting a lot of pressure on the lake. The most sought after bait in town is a smoke/red flake Senko. The better fish being caught are running up to 7 pounds and hitting black buzzbaits and the Senko. Catfish action has kicked in, with houseboaters soaking cut mackerel for fish up to 14 pounds. No word lately on any coho action.
CAMANCHE LAKE--Trout plants were boosted with 3,600 pounds planted a couple weeks back followed by another 1,800 pounds last week. Water temperatures are getting close to the 70-degree upper limit for planting trout, so lake managers are monitoring closely. Bass are active in 12 to 25 feet of water on the points, and while many fish have spawned, there are still plenty on beds and in the shallows. Plastic worms and tubes in brown and green colors rigged splitshot or on darthead jigs have been the top bets. Crappie reports continued to trickle in from Dike 2, Causeway Cove and China Gulch. Catfish heated up with a stringer weighing 16 pounds weighed by a Lodi angler using chicken liver at Causeway Cove.
STAMPEDE RESERVOIR--Trout plants are still going on here, but most anglers are focusing on the good kokanee fishing, where limits are now common for fish that average 14 inches but go to 16 inches, and they're in great shape. Kokes are 20 to 30 feet down, and Mackinaw are under them, also providing good action. Browns are also being caught around the kokanee, but nearer the points. Launching is improving as the lake level comes up.
ALBION--Rockfish and lingcod season opens on May 15. Abalone season is open, and weather permitting, the local rocks and kelp are producing limits for nearly every diver trying.
RUSSIAN RIVER--Flows were still too high to fish, but not too high for the expected shad run, and with flows to 785 at Guerneville over the weekend, shad could have moved over the dams with ease. Jimmy Dean at Kings Sport & Tackle said he wouldn't be surprised to see shad all the way up to Healdsburg or farther. Keep holding on!!!
SAN PABLO BAY--Still a prime bet for sturgeon, even though no one seems interested. On Friday there was only two boats fishing North Bay, and on Saturday, only one. Despite that, the action is high, with lots of bites, a few keeper sturgeon and stripers.
GENERAL
5-15 Charts
NORTH COAST RIVERS
CHETCO RIVER--Big stuff coming down here on the salmon run, and local Oregon Fish and Wildlife officials are being made to look silly with some of their actions. "Many local anglers and calls from out-of-town anglers who are worried about the downward spinning numbers returning to the Chetco River. Local state ODFW officials say we might see 900 or fewer returning Chinook to the system," said WON Field Reporter Dave Pitts. Local ODFW is planning on closures and reduction of take. Concerned anglers should write to State Rep. Wayne Kreiger rep.waynekrieger@state.or.us .
ROGUE RIVER--A week of storms turned the river around completely, bringing up the flows, bringing down the temps and bringing in the kings. Anglers did well for a short term here at the end of the springer run, but it's not expected to last. Some good action did happen with the good conditions. River is dropping out and clearing now, and that will make the springer fishing more difficult with dwindling numbers expected in the run now.
TRINITY/KLAMATH RIVERS
KLAMATH RIVER, Klamath Glen--The river blew out last week, but was dropping and coming back into fishable shape. No one was out on the water though, as of Sunday. A few salmon were reported caught from around Orleans, located upstream of the mouth of the Trinity on the Klamath.
KLAMATH RIVER, Iron Gate--The salmon fly hatch has yet to begin because of the changeable weather, but if the streak of warm, sunny days continues, trout should soon start keying on the hummingbird-sized insects--starting with the nymph stage. In the meantime, they are biting backtrolled Hot Shot/worm combinations, drifted bait, and flies.
More...
LAKE OROVILLE--The bass bite is wide open with some anglers reporting 100-fish days. The FLW Stren Series Tournament will be in town all week putting a lot of pressure on the lake. The most sought after bait in town is a smoke/red flake Senko. The better fish being caught are running up to 7 pounds and hitting black buzzbaits and the Senko. Catfish action has kicked in, with houseboaters soaking cut mackerel for fish up to 14 pounds. No word lately on any coho action.
CAMANCHE LAKE--Trout plants were boosted with 3,600 pounds planted a couple weeks back followed by another 1,800 pounds last week. Water temperatures are getting close to the 70-degree upper limit for planting trout, so lake managers are monitoring closely. Bass are active in 12 to 25 feet of water on the points, and while many fish have spawned, there are still plenty on beds and in the shallows. Plastic worms and tubes in brown and green colors rigged splitshot or on darthead jigs have been the top bets. Crappie reports continued to trickle in from Dike 2, Causeway Cove and China Gulch. Catfish heated up with a stringer weighing 16 pounds weighed by a Lodi angler using chicken liver at Causeway Cove.
STAMPEDE RESERVOIR--Trout plants are still going on here, but most anglers are focusing on the good kokanee fishing, where limits are now common for fish that average 14 inches but go to 16 inches, and they're in great shape. Kokes are 20 to 30 feet down, and Mackinaw are under them, also providing good action. Browns are also being caught around the kokanee, but nearer the points. Launching is improving as the lake level comes up.
ALBION--Rockfish and lingcod season opens on May 15. Abalone season is open, and weather permitting, the local rocks and kelp are producing limits for nearly every diver trying.
RUSSIAN RIVER--Flows were still too high to fish, but not too high for the expected shad run, and with flows to 785 at Guerneville over the weekend, shad could have moved over the dams with ease. Jimmy Dean at Kings Sport & Tackle said he wouldn't be surprised to see shad all the way up to Healdsburg or farther. Keep holding on!!!
SAN PABLO BAY--Still a prime bet for sturgeon, even though no one seems interested. On Friday there was only two boats fishing North Bay, and on Saturday, only one. Despite that, the action is high, with lots of bites, a few keeper sturgeon and stripers.
GENERAL
5-15 Charts
NORTH COAST RIVERS
CHETCO RIVER--Big stuff coming down here on the salmon run, and local Oregon Fish and Wildlife officials are being made to look silly with some of their actions. "Many local anglers and calls from out-of-town anglers who are worried about the downward spinning numbers returning to the Chetco River. Local state ODFW officials say we might see 900 or fewer returning Chinook to the system," said WON Field Reporter Dave Pitts. Local ODFW is planning on closures and reduction of take. Concerned anglers should write to State Rep. Wayne Kreiger rep.waynekrieger@state.or.us .
ROGUE RIVER--A week of storms turned the river around completely, bringing up the flows, bringing down the temps and bringing in the kings. Anglers did well for a short term here at the end of the springer run, but it's not expected to last. Some good action did happen with the good conditions. River is dropping out and clearing now, and that will make the springer fishing more difficult with dwindling numbers expected in the run now.
TRINITY/KLAMATH RIVERS
KLAMATH RIVER, Klamath Glen--The river blew out last week, but was dropping and coming back into fishable shape. No one was out on the water though, as of Sunday. A few salmon were reported caught from around Orleans, located upstream of the mouth of the Trinity on the Klamath.
KLAMATH RIVER, Iron Gate--The salmon fly hatch has yet to begin because of the changeable weather, but if the streak of warm, sunny days continues, trout should soon start keying on the hummingbird-sized insects--starting with the nymph stage. In the meantime, they are biting backtrolled Hot Shot/worm combinations, drifted bait, and flies.
More...
