Fish Reports

🎣 California Fish Plants for 11/2/2025 - 11/8/2025 Temps dropping, trout plants heating up this week. More Private Plant Openers Cool fall water has trout feeding shallow across California. This week, California is expected to have 13,800 lbs of trout and 0 lbs of catfish planted across 18 locations. Handful of plants in the thousands start to ramp up. With unannounced plants, last week totaled 36,200 lbs across 41 locations, including 34,700 lbs trout and 1,500 lbs catfish.

Fall Sierra season is firing and the tail end of that cold storm has browns lit with full pumpkin patch saturation. MADE Baits handcrafted by Mike has been producing in this exact transition window because the contrast and finish still pop even when the water has color. That buck nasty pattern is the early trip ignition with buttery punch. Mike with a huge brown trout in the Sierras using MADE baits. The green and purple brown creates the perfect contrast against water to stand out while mimicking a minnow. Make sure to take a look at the reference chart for an idea of what waters this is great for.

🎣 Mid-week Fish Plants for 10/26/2025 - 11/1/2025 Trout Plants pick up, Bay Area begins Hey anglers, here’s your midweek update. 9 additional spots are planting fish, bringing totals to 31,000 lbs of trout and 500 lbs of catfish across 37 locations. The bite is picking up fast as stocking expands statewide, setting up solid weekend action. The big private plant this week is the Bay Area where plants have kicked off with several locations planting 1000lbs of Mt. Lassen.

The American River has been treating me well as we head into the final stretch of the season. I like running plugs from the boat, but spinners and spoons have been very productive too when fan casting in 6 to 10 feet of water. Since we are limited to the bottom 10 miles of the river, I focus on the stretch from River Bend to Howe Ave. Bobber and roe setups in the slower, deeper, darker water have been the ticket when fish decide to hold tight.

Fishing has been great, or maybe a little better than that.

We are putting limits in the box daily. If we practice catch and release, we are landing up to a dozen fish a day.

Jay Fair hot orange or orange and yellow trolling flies are my top baits at this time. We are trolling them on the east side of the lake at Pikes Point, in front of the jetty, Ronald McDonald’s and up the Eagle’s Nest shoreline. We are trolling our baits at 2-5 feet deep in water 10-25 feet deep.

I have openings through 11/16 if you want to book a trip.

Whether you are fishing with me or not, feel free to call me for fishing or lodging info.