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• SACRAMENTO RIVER – Not many people were talking, but there were some reports of decent striper fishing from Freeport through downtown Sacramento along the 5 mph no-wake zone. They're scoring on whole sardines rigged with double hooks to deter bait- stealing shakers. Fishing for catfish was very good, too, with a 40-pounder caught on a crawdad by the I Street Bridge. An angler dunking anchovies landed a 5-pounder. He caught a mess of small catfish as well. A better bet for getting some bites from catfish, bass and panfish has been in area sloughs, the Port of West Sacramento and the main river.
• EMERYVILLE – Good action on all but the Wednesday tuna trip, which had good weather and sought distant fishing grounds as far as 90 miles southwest of Seal Rocks. "They saw jumpers but no fish," said Craig Stone at Emeryville Sportfishing. Rockfish remained the closest to a sure thing, with limits the rule on the Farallon trips, but halibut trips did well also, with the Captain Hook finding the top score of the week with near-limits on Thursday's trip.
• CAMANCHE LAKE – Catfish rated very good for both regulars and first-timers, with the "usual suspects" catching fish to 15 pounds, and a first-timers a 4.1-pounder. Chicken liver and mackerel worked best. Trout trollers found limits, the best bite early and late in the day. The action came on Needlefish trolled 25 feet down early in the day, a little deeper later, in the main lake near the dam.
DELTA
• SACRAMENTO RIVER side – This coming week, anglers should be focusing on the early morning or late afternoon opportunities for sturgeon and stripers. Areas such as the west bank below Rio Vista, the middle parts of Montezuma Slough and Decker Island were the most productive areas for both. Until the water temperature begins to drop, anglers will be best served to focus on the smaller tides, slack tides and top and bottom of tides.
• SAN JOAQUIN RIVER side – The areas from Broad Slough to Bethel Island saw the better striper action, with many anglers catching their own mudsuckers for them, as they are in short supply at bait shops and sardines have actually worked better than shad.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY
• FOLSOM LAKE – It continues to be a mixed bag for bass. Most of the action seems to be around the main body with a bit of early morning topwater and crank action. Some bass were being caught on weightless Senkos dropped alongside structure. But, day in, day out, most bass were being caught on jigs and plastic worms fished over rock pile and flats.
• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Redding – Trout fishing continued to be good, and anglers were catching a dozen or so a day plus the rare steelhead to 5 pounds, on dead-drifted nymphs like princes, pheasant tails and copper Johns under indicators. Spin fishermen used Glo-Bugs with or without a bit of roe, nightcrawlers, and crickets.
• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Upper – Trout fishing slowed in the heat, but there was some action early and late, mostly around Dunsmuir, on prince, pheasant tail and copper Johns fished with lots of weight into pocket water on a short line.
SIERRA LAKES
• JENKINSON LAKE (Sly Park) – A local angler trolled for two days this past week with a large orange Needlefish, 10 feet off the bottom at 95 to 110 feet, and caught 17 Mackinaw up to 3 pounds. He said he caught one fish weighed 3 3/4 pounds. Bass to 4 3/4 pounds are hitting nightcrawlers and crawdads.
– Western Outdoor News www.wonews.com
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• SACRAMENTO RIVER – Not many people were talking, but there were some reports of decent striper fishing from Freeport through downtown Sacramento along the 5 mph no-wake zone. They're scoring on whole sardines rigged with double hooks to deter bait- stealing shakers. Fishing for catfish was very good, too, with a 40-pounder caught on a crawdad by the I Street Bridge. An angler dunking anchovies landed a 5-pounder. He caught a mess of small catfish as well. A better bet for getting some bites from catfish, bass and panfish has been in area sloughs, the Port of West Sacramento and the main river.
• EMERYVILLE – Good action on all but the Wednesday tuna trip, which had good weather and sought distant fishing grounds as far as 90 miles southwest of Seal Rocks. "They saw jumpers but no fish," said Craig Stone at Emeryville Sportfishing. Rockfish remained the closest to a sure thing, with limits the rule on the Farallon trips, but halibut trips did well also, with the Captain Hook finding the top score of the week with near-limits on Thursday's trip.
• CAMANCHE LAKE – Catfish rated very good for both regulars and first-timers, with the "usual suspects" catching fish to 15 pounds, and a first-timers a 4.1-pounder. Chicken liver and mackerel worked best. Trout trollers found limits, the best bite early and late in the day. The action came on Needlefish trolled 25 feet down early in the day, a little deeper later, in the main lake near the dam.
DELTA
• SACRAMENTO RIVER side – This coming week, anglers should be focusing on the early morning or late afternoon opportunities for sturgeon and stripers. Areas such as the west bank below Rio Vista, the middle parts of Montezuma Slough and Decker Island were the most productive areas for both. Until the water temperature begins to drop, anglers will be best served to focus on the smaller tides, slack tides and top and bottom of tides.
• SAN JOAQUIN RIVER side – The areas from Broad Slough to Bethel Island saw the better striper action, with many anglers catching their own mudsuckers for them, as they are in short supply at bait shops and sardines have actually worked better than shad.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY
• FOLSOM LAKE – It continues to be a mixed bag for bass. Most of the action seems to be around the main body with a bit of early morning topwater and crank action. Some bass were being caught on weightless Senkos dropped alongside structure. But, day in, day out, most bass were being caught on jigs and plastic worms fished over rock pile and flats.
• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Redding – Trout fishing continued to be good, and anglers were catching a dozen or so a day plus the rare steelhead to 5 pounds, on dead-drifted nymphs like princes, pheasant tails and copper Johns under indicators. Spin fishermen used Glo-Bugs with or without a bit of roe, nightcrawlers, and crickets.
• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Upper – Trout fishing slowed in the heat, but there was some action early and late, mostly around Dunsmuir, on prince, pheasant tail and copper Johns fished with lots of weight into pocket water on a short line.
SIERRA LAKES
• JENKINSON LAKE (Sly Park) – A local angler trolled for two days this past week with a large orange Needlefish, 10 feet off the bottom at 95 to 110 feet, and caught 17 Mackinaw up to 3 pounds. He said he caught one fish weighed 3 3/4 pounds. Bass to 4 3/4 pounds are hitting nightcrawlers and crawdads.
– Western Outdoor News www.wonews.com
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