Collins Lake Report

Here's the latest Collins Lake report from Kathy Hess:

Most of the trout limits are taken from boats now since the surface temperature reached 70 degrees this week. Trollers are down 20' with downriggers or three colors with monofilament line. Frank & Maggie Bradley trolled the entire lake and caught 10 trout using flashers and nightcrawlers.

The Johnsons hooked a total of 14 rainbow trout by the dam drifting worms.

Fred Libby and grandson Cody trolled with spinners around 22? down and caught a couple of trout, one was almost three pounds. It was De Ja Vu for Cody who hadn’t fished with Grandpa since he was a little guy!! Paul Lowe brought up a nice stringer, his big one was a 4 lb. 4 oz. Rainbow. Paul fished with Powerbait near the bridge. Tammy & Larry of Lincoln caught 9 trout by the dam or along the east shore on Needlefish.

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Berryessa Report from Tight Lines Guide Service

Rick Kennedy of Tight Lines Guide Service says yesterday wasn't a red hot day at Berryessa, but all in all was a good day given the weather and they landed some nice Kokanee and a nice King.

Here's Rick's full report:

We headed out from Markley Cove a little after 6:00 AM. The water temp was 67 degrees as we went by the houseboats. We headed straight out to the Big Island and focused on Kokanee.

We hooked a few fish but they just wouldn’t stick. Finally, we ended up by the Ranch House where we landed a Rainbow. We worked this area and again had hook ups that didn’t stick. We kept working the general area of the Ranch House and the Big Island.

Finally we landed some nice Kokanee just south of the Big Island. We decided to head back into the narrows and look for some Kings. We dropped in just short of the dam and it wasn’t long before we had a nice King in the box.

About that time the wind came up and the sky started turning black. We could hear thunder and saw a couple flashes of lightening in the distance, that’s when we decided to troll are way in. It wasn’t a red-hot day but all in all it was a good day given the weather.

We caught fish on a few different set ups which included Sep’s 3/0 Silver Starlight with a Berkley Gulp Minnow on a 18” leader, Sep’s 3/0 Fruit Bowl Dodger and a White Uncle Larry’s Squid. 4/0 Pink/White Sep’s Dodger and an Uncle Larry’s Pink Tiger, Sep’s Watermelon Strike Master with a Glow Hoochie. We also rolled Pautzke Fire Brined Shad and Anchovies. We hooked fish on bait but couldn’t get them to stick. For the Kokanee we used Shoepeg Corn cured in Pink Pautzke Fire Cure. We hooked or caught fish from 2’ to 110” today. Crazy day trying to figure out what they wanted.

Thanks for the report Rick!

To set up a trip with Right Lines Guide Service, visit their website or call 888-975-0990.

BITE UPDATE: Great action in Gold Country!

If you're looking to target rainbows and kokanee, now's the perfect time to hit Don Pedro Lake and New Melones!

Monte Smith just updated us that the rainbows and kokanee are on a great bite at both lakes. Monte says the king salmon are also biting now at Don Pedro.

And if you're looking for some striper action in Gold Country, Monte tells us, "I would not waste any time getting in on the action on the stripers at Hogan. These fish put up a great fight on light tackle."

To book a trip with Gold Country Sport Fishing, give Monte a call at (209) 581-4734.

Bite Update - Audio Report: Lake Camanche from Scott Vaughn

"Just had a great weekend fly fishing for bass at Camanche Lake. Craig and I hit the south side in our float tubes this weekend and got into all kinds of fish. I love getting multiple species on the same fly. All fish I caught were on an intermediate line with a size 8 back wiggle tail that I tie. We tried some bigger patterns but they wanted small. Caught a rainbow, lmb, bluegill, and tons of fat spots. Love the red eye on some of them. Water temp was 64 degrees all day long. Saw plenty of others cruising around. Get out there, the time is now for bass."

- Scott Vaughn

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Listen to the VHF Radios from the Salmon Opener

The Northern California Ocean Salmon Opener kicked off yesterday, with some mixed results. Limits for some, skunks for others. We'll have a full report of the opening weekend action in this week's podcast, so stay tuned!

If you didn't make it out for the opener yesterday, you can still feel like you were on the water (without the seasickness!). We're bringing you the RodMob Salmon Radio Sound Bite, an audio montage of the action recorded from the VHF chatter of the boats fishing in Monterey Bay, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay.

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