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A bad day fishing is better than a good day working!!
The
October
1999
Well, the weather has been terrible and we
just haven't been able to get out to try to catch that BIG one. First the water
was too low, too warm and too clear. Then the water was too high, too fast and
too dirty. The weather and the water are just starting to get good and I hope
the fish will cooperate and they will start biting.
The Shad are starting to appear in the
The Striper fishing has been real slow but
the water is starting to warm up and with the increase in temperature, it
should get better real soon. At least that is what I am hoping will happen.
If you would like to take a look at the
Salmon page, just click below. If not, continue down the page and you will see what
happened since December 1999.
Although I haven't been doing well, some of
my fishing buddies have been doing OK. Below are some of their fish that have
been caught in the past two weeks.
These
two Stripers were caught in the
An 11
pounder and a 12 pounder.
This
13 pounder was caught by Glen on May 15 on the
Earl
Wilson hasn't been doing bad either. Here is an 11 pounder
Caught
on the
Well,
Glen did it again. He got this 12 pounder trolling on the
Well, that is the update for today. I hope
the fishing picks up so I can update the site every week from now on.
I left the Strugeon pictures below for now
but as the Striper fishing gets better and the Salmon season starts, the
Sturgeon will have to go.
George and Donna McGee, some friends here in
GREAT
JOB GEORGE AND DONNA
I guess Glen is good luck because on December
22, Glen and Earl were anchored near Sandy Beach, Rio Vista, fishing for
Sturgeon. Well, Earl's rod started to go down, he feed it some line, then set
the hook and about 30 to 40 yards below the boat a very large Sturgeon jumped
completely out of the water. They tried to fight the fish from the anchor but
knew it was not going to work by the way the fish was handling the fisherman. They
threw the anchor rope over board and the fish took them for a 55 minute ride.
At the end of the ride, Earl had landed this 80+ inch Sturgeon, no telling how
much it weighed, probably 150+ pounds, but it was quite obvious that his fish
was TOOOO large to keep and would live to take another shrimp from another
fisherman, on another day. So they took these pictures to support their story
and released the fish back to the Sacrament River Delta. This is what it is all
about. GREAT JOB Earl!!!
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Some of my favorite fishing sites
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Fish'n Dan's Guide Service |
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Bob's Bait in Ileton |
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Call of the Wind |
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Steve's SF Bay Fishing |
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The Fish Sniffer |
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