Jess Ranch Lakes Plant
Fish Reports
What's biting across California, newest first.
Trollers are landing quality king salmon and rainbow trout by working the main body from Folsom Point toward the dam and out by the secondary dikes. Wind-induced surface chop is creating an optimal morning ambush window by breaking up water clarity. Most fish are holding at depths between 30 to 70 feet. Speeds between 1.5 and 2.5 mph are proving effective when dragging small or large baitfish-imitation spoons, or dark green, blue-green, and magenta hoochies.
Trout are biting well between 5 and 20 feet deep with some fish holding down to 35 feet along the western shoreline and near rock structures. Anglers are finding success trolling with small spoons and needlefish in pink, orange, red, or copper shades. Casting size 8 to 14 orange or olive woolly buggers under a float around rock piles is also producing results. Surface algae is scattered across the water but finding clean areas is not difficult. Catches are averaging 2 to 4 pounds as a tui chub hatch begins.
The reservoir is holding near ninety-seven percent capacity at an elevation of 437.30 feet. Kokanee salmon are scattered across the lake rather than schooling heavily but are biting well. Trollers are hooking fish at depths from 20 to 75 feet using unbranded spinners and ringed lures behind dodgers tipped with corn. Boat speeds between 1 and 2 miles per hour are optimal with some trout and crappie mixed into the catch.
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 fairβstick 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.
A 500-pound catfish plant makes the swim beaches and narrows your best bet; use a light sliding-sinker rig with anchovies or sardines. Big grass carp are fighting hard in the shallows, so bump your line up to 10β12 pounds if you target them. Male bass are holding tight to shallow weeds, while the bigger females have moved deep.
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.