Fish Reports

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.

Fishing is superb for rockfish and lingcod.. Anglers are using shrimp flies, tipped with squid strips, and an array of bars, swimbaits and jigs

Spotted bass fishing is very good. There is a top water bite early in the morning, followed by a solid bite on plastic worms fished on darter heads during the day.

The boat ramp is open this year. NID is following the same Golden Mussel Prevention Program they have at Scotts Flat and Rollins reservoirs. Bank anglers and boat can catch rainbows, Lahontan cutthroats and an occasional brown.

The river will open to salmon fishing on July 16. Both boaters and bank anglers can expect to battle quality Chinooks while fishing plugs and spinners.

Sacramento’s backyard fishery continues to produce large numbers of rainbow trout, along with a few king salmon. Trollers are using Speedy Shiners, hoochies and other offerings from 20 to 35 feet deep.

Anglers are catching limits and near-limits of quality stripers while drifting live anchovies on the central bay. A few halibut are also showing in the catches.

Kokanee fishing is in full swing on this popular fishery. Experienced anglers are bagging early limits of quality landlocked sockeyes while trolling spoons, hoochies and other lures,, tipped with white corn, at depths down to 50 feet.

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