Fish Reports

3g orange spoons working well, aim for brushlines

Jess Ranch Lakes Plant

Lakes 4 and 7

Twin Lakes Trout Foundation Plant

Twin Lakes Trout Foundation Plant

Planted at McClure point. Bright spoons from shore and by trolling both working well. Using dodgers with a downrigger doing well.

Jess Ranch Lakes Plant

Planted by Jess Ranch Lakes. Darker color jigs working well recently.

Spoon action is incredible right now. Stick to lighter spoons to avoid snags, 2g spoons in rainbow trout patterns have been doing well.

3-4 lbers being caught on green colored jigs.

Action is steady. Jigs mimicing baitfish doing well. Darker colors for contrast during dusk working well at least 10ft deep.

Fish are from Pacific Aqua Farms

Trout are mostly gone, though you might meter a few in deep water by boat. Bass fishing is fair—stick to weedless plastics around the coves and shorelines. Rainbow Lake is hot for grass carp up to 10 pounds on corn or bread balls, while Shinn and Grau are giving up smaller bass and bluegill.

Chabot is producing well after a 500-pound catfish stocking. Work the weeds from Coot Landing to the back of the lake for bass, using a boat if you can. Target the marina cove and docks for catfish, or drop worms under a bobber around the same docks for easy panfish.

Catfish action is fair around the boat launch point and both docks following a 500-pound plant. Bass are biting in the shallows and back-end brush, while the docks remain a reliable spot for numbers of sunfish.

The lake just got 500 pounds of catfish, but big bass are the main draw right now. You will have to punch plastics or fish frogs through heavy shoreline weeds in Quail Cove and the flats to get them. Crappie and panfish are biting well on worms in the shallows across from the swim lagoon.

Bass fishing is surprisingly active for a lake this small. Bluegill action is also starting to pick up.

The trout season opened with top-notch fishing for this unique strain of rainbow trout. Trolling spoons and nymphing flies are the top producing techniques now.

Hefty kokanee salmon continue to offer limit action.. Trollers are picking up limits while trolling spoons and spinners, tipped with white corn, at up to 60 feet deep.

Sturgeon fishing continues to be solid for those going out. Toss out salmon roe, lamprey eel and ghost shrimp for the top action.

American shad are showing in good numbers in this urban river. Both flies and curly tail grubs in chartreuse and pink are producing solid catch-and-release action.

Shore anglers are tossing out PowerBait, worms and spoons to catch rainbows and some browns averaging 14 to 18 inches long. Trolling and fly fishing are also excellent.

Rockfish action has been superb on the calm days. Anglers are bagging limits of both shallow and deep water rockfish, along with some lingcod.

Trolling for 3 to 5 lb. mackinaws, along with a few larger fish, has been productive. Kokanee salmon and rainbow trout are also on tap.