<h3>TOP PICKS</h3><h4>SACRAMENTO VALLEY
• AMERICAN RIVER - Fishing was slow on the American River last week, with a few small steelhead caught on the lower riffles from Paradise Beach to Goethe Park and a rare striped bass taking Pencil Poppers, swimbaits, mudsuckers and crawdads.• FEATHER RIVER - Big stripers were caught below Shanghai Rapids, including a 37-pounder. They were caught on Pencil Poppers, Hair Raiser Jigs and shallow-running jerk baits. Steelhead fishing improved from Gridley up into the Low Flow Section. While small nymphs and egg patterns worked, nightcrawlers seemed a better bet.• FOLSOM LAKE - The challenge at Folsom was to find lee shores to get out of the wind. Crankbaits and jerkbaits worked early, but later in the day, if you could keep from being blown away, it was more productive to work sheltered rock piles with Carolina-rigged, drop-shotted and dart-headed plastic worms.• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Sacramento - Good fishing early in the week demonstrated that there were still plenty of striped bass around. The area around Ward's Landing continued to be good on minnows, although no whoppers were reported. Some were caught at Verona, and others in the turning basin at the Port of Sacramento. A few steelhead were caught above Colusa on roe.
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• AMERICAN RIVER - Fishing was slow on the American River last week, with a few small steelhead caught on the lower riffles from Paradise Beach to Goethe Park and a rare striped bass taking Pencil Poppers, swimbaits, mudsuckers and crawdads.• FEATHER RIVER - Big stripers were caught below Shanghai Rapids, including a 37-pounder. They were caught on Pencil Poppers, Hair Raiser Jigs and shallow-running jerk baits. Steelhead fishing improved from Gridley up into the Low Flow Section. While small nymphs and egg patterns worked, nightcrawlers seemed a better bet.• FOLSOM LAKE - The challenge at Folsom was to find lee shores to get out of the wind. Crankbaits and jerkbaits worked early, but later in the day, if you could keep from being blown away, it was more productive to work sheltered rock piles with Carolina-rigged, drop-shotted and dart-headed plastic worms.• SACRAMENTO RIVER, Sacramento - Good fishing early in the week demonstrated that there were still plenty of striped bass around. The area around Ward's Landing continued to be good on minnows, although no whoppers were reported. Some were caught at Verona, and others in the turning basin at the Port of Sacramento. A few steelhead were caught above Colusa on roe.
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