Fishing Report, June 9, 2007
June 9, 2007
Landlocked Coho Fishing
We did a trip up to Oroville today and fished for a couple of hours for the landlocked coho salmon up there. The bite was red hot and we had three doubles and hooked somewhere around 15 fish, keeping 7 for the smoker. I’m here to tell ya, these fish are awesome! They were all 16-19 inches and fought like crazy. They popped the line off the downrigger clips with gusto, burned drag and all of ‘em jumped a lot. And the little salmon all had bright orange meat in them as well…
Read on for the shad and Lake Tahoe mackinaw report…
Fishing Report, May 23
May 23, 2007
Feather River Shad
We transitioned more into a full-time shad type of pattern last week as schools of the big ol’ lovable herring showed up en masse. Shad fishing was pretty much full-throttle all week from Verona to Shanghai Rapids on pink and champagne mini grubs. Read more
Fishing Report, May 14
May 14, 2007
Stripers Still Going: We had a banner week last week on the Feather River, where we found a white-hot striper bite in the mornings on topwater plugs. The majority of the fish were in the 4- to 8-pound class, but we got some dandies like this 16 pounder that Jim Jones got on a popper at dawn.
For several mornings, we were lucky enough to find some marauding schools of fish and, for an hour or so, it would be a fish every cast.
By Sunday, however, the big surface-crashing schools had thinned out.
That was the case Monday as well…we found a few solo boilers on the surface and picked off about 4 of them before the bite died. After that, we switched to rip baits and found a nice little bite on fish to 12 pounds.
The stripers aren’t the only game in town, either…
Fishing Report, May 5
May 5, 2007
We’ve been seeing a nice crop of stripers lately. Here’s Dale Milam with some nice keepers from Friday.
Read on for all the latest fishing report action from the Feather, American, Bay, etc…
Feather River
On the Feather yesterday, we started out tossing Pencil Poppers and immediately caught two nice fish on top and missed a couple others that boiled on the lures. We then switched to dunking sardines, which resulted in some dink-style action. After that, I had the guys start throwing jerkbaits and we found a nice pod of fish and had lots of doubles and probably hooked in the neighborhood of 30 keeper stripers.
Fishing Report, April 9, 2007
April 9, 2007
Mixed Bag Fun
Spring is here and that means lots of cool stuff to do!
I kicked off April with a week in Redding, where we chased a variety of species on a bunch of different water ways: Rainbows on the Sacramento; king salmon and spotted bass on Shasta Lake and kokanee salmon on Whiskeytown Reservoir.
This week, it’s more shark fishing; striper chasing on the Sacramento and the last American river steelhead missions.
Here’s what’s been happening…
Fishing Report, March 25, 2007
March 25, 2007
SHARKS!
We did our first light tackle shark fishing trip of the year on Saturday and the bite was pretty much like usual: steady to wide open all day long. And like normal, we gave up long before the fish did.
We never went more than about 10 minutes without a fish on the entire outing and had a few doubles as well.
With chunk bait in 3-7 feet of water, the sharkin’ was extremely good, and in that shallow water, most of the fish jumped when hooked…very cool!
We’ve also been experiencing some excellent steelie fishing on the American, so read on…
Fishing Report, Feb. 28
February 28, 2007
American River Steelhead
We still have some winter-run steelhead around though this is typically when we see their numbers drop off. The good news is, however, the spring “football” steelhead generally start making a good showing at the beginning of March!
Fishing Report, Feb. 16, 2007
February 16, 2007
Well, we finally got some rain here in the Sacramento Valley last weekend and that put some color into some of our local waters…which was a good news/bad news type of situation as it brought some fresh steelhead into the American and Feather rivers but it also muddied up a white-hot striper bite.
Read on for more details…
Fishing Report, January 30, 2007
January 30, 2007
Feather River
After a slow start to the week on the ol’ Rio Americano on Monday, I jumped over the Feather and fished some steelhead in both the high and low flow areas. We had one dreadfully slow day over there in which we only caught 1 fish, but the other missions were successful from a numbers standpoint.
Except for the 1-fish day, we hooked no fewer than 5 steelhead per outing on plugs and side-drifted roe.
Fishing Report, January 15
January 15, 2007
Hey everybody…welcome to my new and improved fishing report here on fishwithjd.com.
Here’s a quick look at what’s been happening lately…
SPEAKING SCHEDULE
First off, don’t forget I’ll be at the International Sportsmen’s Expo in Sacramento this week, doing seminars on Salmon and Steelhead fishing. I’ll take the stage at the California Sportsmen Theater at 5:30 PM on Thursday, Jan. 18 and then again at 7:30 PM on Friday evening. I’ll also be a part of the Salmon/Steelhead Expert Panel at 1:30 PM on Sunday with fellow guides Kevin Brock, Greg Squires, Bob Sparre and Rick Soto.
