After a week of fishing with friinds in Southern Alberta, I got right back into the saddle with the boys and we fished salmon Sunday and Tuesday this week. Sunday we fished from 11 to 2 pm and hooked and landed one fish. Yesterday we fished from 4:30pm to 6:30pm and hooked 7 and landed 5. The salmon fishing has been really good but you have to be at the right place at the right time using the right baits.
The boys limited out last night in 2 hours!
The past week of salmon fishing has been mostly really good. We had one slow evening but most of the guys fishing the day had limits.
Last night Michael landed a 12 pounder while boondoggling. His first ever on that method. We lost a few on faltfish and back bouncing roe. We also broke one off using 40# test!
This picture is of Matthew and his first back bounce roe fish. These fish have all been really chrome brite and great on the BBQ!
The bulk of the run is not even here yet so this is shaping up to be a banner season.
WS
Fished the Sac. on Weds. and Friday with the boys and on Sat. Emma was gracious enough to join us!
Wednesday, the salmon fishing was poor but again the boys threw flies at the bank and hooked 2 and landed 1 striper. On Friday I took them out again for salmon and Michael finally got his first salmon of the season! A very brite 25 pound hen came to the net. Not bad for a couple hours of fishing.
Monster Bluegill from a nearby Wilderness Unlimited Pond.
We fished the delta on Friday and Sat. and it was tough fishing. The boys managed 10 stripers on clousers on Friday. The wind picked in the afternoon and we were off the water by 1pm. On Sat. morning, the wind forecast was suppose to be 3 mph….. NOT. It was around 10 mph and this kind of wind is difficult for the boys to cast in so we looked for wind cover but did not hook many fish. We graphed LOTS and LOTS of fish but the water temps were in the mid 70’s and we could not get them to bite. The wind picked up mid morning so we packed it up and headed home. The boys landed 5 stripers that morning.
Sat. evening we decided to fish for salmon on the Sac. River at Ord Bend. As I back trolled plugs for salmon the boys took turn at the bow fly casting to the rip rap bank with a white rattle clouser. Matthew hooked up with a good size squawfish in a short time. Michael took over and hooked a feisty striper and landed it and hooked another one and lost it. Matthew was back on the rod and he missed a big fish that he saw try to eat his fly!
No salmon, only saw one roll and one on the graph. DFG at the launch ramp said they went from Hamilton City to Colusa this morning and noted only one fish caught.
The boys fished a lot over the weekend. I took them and Uncle Jon and Zane to the Hat Creek area to camp. It’s the first time I had the camper at an RV park with full hook ups. Wow that was great to have AC the whole weekend!
I wanted the boys to fish Hat Creek PH2 because it was so special to me as a kid starting fly fishing. The fishing was exponentially better back then. They loved Hat Creek PH2! They caught lots of little fish on dries and they said they could fish it all day long. They did not want to leave. I had to force them to get out of the water. I had a chance to video them casting dry flies to rising fish. I also took them to Bidwell too. There was a great mayfly hatch at the inlet of Pond 2 and they boys did well on nymphs and dries.
The creek above the inlet was fishing well too. It’s basically a spring creek and the fish are a lot tougher to get. Right before dark there was a riser in the creek and Michael wanted to catch gim. I retied his leader to a 15 foot 6X leader and put on a #18 CDC BWO. He made 3 casts and got him! Oh my we were both so excited!
The boys fished 5 days last week! Papa John took them out three days this week and I took them out two. Unfortunately Papa John did not have a camera so there are no pics of their big fly caught bass. They landed fish that were over 4 pounds on flies.
I took them to a small local pond Friday night and they landed 10 bass on topwater flies.
We fished the river (Sacramento) Saturday evening for salmon and got zero. But they got 6 Striper blow ups on Zara Spooks although no hook ups .
The snapper fishing was fun but not worth doing again. We brought 2 fly rods to fish with in Malaysia and Singapore and that’s what we really wanted to do but we just could not make it happen. Matthew did catch a barramundi. That is a species we wanted to catch.
Well, We drove out to the Feather again today. Great weather and light boat traffic. The boys landed 30 from 8 am to 1pm. Danny and Wes had 60 at by 10:30! We stink. Seriously, the fishing was still great for the boys.
WS
Fishing for Bass with Papa Jon
