Fishing Report (Oct. 9, 2007)
October 9, 2007
Klamath Kings & Steelhead
Since our Klamath River trips were so well-received last month (and the salmon bite locally is dead), I’ve set aside another week to go up there and chase kings and steelhead out of the jetboat My buddies have been fishing lately and said it’s been off-the-charts good, so we should see some nice fishing for both species.
I’ll be up there Oct. 22-28…if you’d like to give the Klamath a try, get back with me ASAP. Late October is awesome…very few people, lots of fish and fantastic scenery.
Delta Stripers
Striper fishing is improving on the Delta and we’ve been seeing 20-30 fish a day most outings. I’ve been mixing it up each day by throwing topwater, swimbaits and jigs. We had a tough one on Tuesday due to wind…we still caught a bunch of fish but they were all dinks…but the fishing should get right back on track when the weather calms down.
Sacramento River Salmon
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you know that we’re mired in the worst salmon season we’ve ever seen here in the Central Valley. There’s no real way to sugar-coat it…the fishing sucks! I’ve been averaging 1-2 kings a day (no skunks, so far!) while fishing between Sacramento and Walnut Grove. The good news is the fish are big and bright…there’s just not many of them.
Here’s a 16-pound hen we got on Sunday near Clarksburg on the Sacramento River, which was 1 of 2 bites we had that day. At the ramp, we were checked by the DFG’s angler survey crew who had boated from Rio Vista to Sacramento and were on their way back down. Besides our king, they had seen one other salmon taken by all the boats on the river! Brutal! I almost felt bad for killing it — that fish could have been about 25% of the entire 2007 run!
I will say this — there’s still a chance we’ll get some kings in the Sac and American later in the month and on into November. Over the past few years, the best action has been late in the season.
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