FISH REPORT SACRAMENTO RIVER, Red Bluff to Colusa:
LAKE OROVILLE: Rob Reimers of Rustic Rob’s Guide Service reported trollers are finding from 4 to 6 king salmon to 4 pounds on Speedy Shiners or Brad’s Cut Plugs. Spotted bass are taken on jigs once you find them, but there is excess floating and submerged wood and debris in the river arms. The Bidwell Canyon launch ramp is open on Saturday and Sunday with the Spillway open seven days per week. Updated information available at 530-538-2200. The lake held at 35 percent.
FEATHER RIVER: Aaron Searcy of Johnson’s Bait in Yuba City reported slow steelhead action with a few resident striped bass landed in the main river. Striped bass action could improve.
AMERICAN RIVER, Sacramento: Steelhead action remains very slow with Uncle Larry Barnes of Sacramento Pro Tackle saying, “People have been looking for steelhead, and most have been using roe under a bobber around Ancil Hoffman Park. Flows Sunday at Fair Oaks remained low, at 1,380 cfs.
AMERICAN RIVER, Above Folsom: Access is limited due to the weather conditions, and Craig Newton of Will Fish Tackle in Auburn reported slow action with one angler only reporting two hookups. The river is catch and release barbless hooks only above Folsom.
Fishing pressure is light. A few trophy stripers are being caught in the low-flow conditions on the Sacramento River. Sturgeon haven’t moved upriver yet because of low flows. A few anglers are targeting rainbows and steelhead closer to Red Bluff.
SACRAMENTO RIVER, Verona to Colusa: Heavy rain and increased flows are needed to draw sturgeon into the Knights Landing area. Fishing is slow for stripers, with few anglers fishing. A few catfish are still being caught, but cold water has slowed the action.
LAKE SHASTA: The Wild West Bass Trails is holding their Pro/Am event this weekend, and 150 boats will be participating on Thursday and Friday with the final 10 on Saturday. John Boitano of Phil’s Propellers reported a decent bass bite with spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ripbaits, or big swimbaits, but the most consistent bite has been with plastics at depths from 25 to 60 feet. He said, “One concern has been the lack of bass spitting up shad as normally during this time of year, and weare picking up 17-inch bass that are long and thin with no belly.” For trout, Jeff Goodwin of Jeff Goodwin’s Guide Service said, “The rainbow and brown trout action has been hit or miss, but we are averaging 6 or 7 trout to 5 pounds trolling Trinidad Tackle’s Optimizer spoons or Brad’s Kokanee Cut Plugs between 10 and 20 feet in depth. Kokanee to 10 inches are also showing up so we expect them to be in the 16-inch range by mid-summer.”
TRINITY RIVER: Rains pulled in fresh steelhead from the Klamath River. Fishing has been good throughout the river, especially above Junction City, where the color is best. The water is dirty on the lower end. MagLip plugs are working best. Flows over the weekend at Lewiston were 316 cfs, while flows at Douglas City were 392 cfs and flows at Junction City were 422 cfs. Flows at Hoopa were 3,995 cfs.