June 1st - Official start of summer....in my world.
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| Love fishing the flats... |
Summer is here. In my mind June 1 is the official end of
spring and beginning of summer. That said the weather is still spring like as
is the fishing…Lots of mid to high 80s and Low 90s in the forecast for the next
few weeks fishing all over the place should keep plugging away…Here are some
reports and what is coming up.
Lower Sac outside
of Chico:
Shad fishing remains fair to good.
There are still plenty of fish around and while
numbers caught each night have taken a bit of a dip the size of fish has increased with some nice females in the mix
on most nights. I would imagine that
shad fishing should remain fair to good over the next few weeks and began to tapper off the 2nd
or 3rd week of June.
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| Hooked up on a nice Shad |
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| Hooked up on a nice Shad...again |
Striper fishing is starting to pick up
as some smaller keeper fish and shaker size
are starting to be caught. I imagine fishing will get good over the next few weeks as the shad thin out and fish began
to go on the feed. Best time of year
for striper is June-September. There are still some prime dates open in June-August.
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| Love these guys |
Large and Small Mouth Bass fishing
remains good. We are starting to see some
smallies up in the shallows and catching a few large females full of eggs as well as some smaller fish in the creek
mouths and shallows. Sight fishing for largemouth
and top water fishing for largemouth continues to be a great option on most evenings as well.
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| Small Jaw from the Lower Sac. |
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| Nice top water slough Largmouth on the Lower Sac |
Lower Sacramento
Trout: fishing has been fair to good. Pretty standard numbers of trout
being caught on most floats. Options for numbers and size of fish right now
just depends on how one floats and fishes the river. The Lower Floats are a
great place to fish June-August. I look forward to getting out of the motor
boat mid summer and floating Jelly’s to Bend each year and fishing for trout.
Clearwater Lodge Water:
Pit River, Fall River, and Hat Creek are all fishing well from what I have
heard. I will be up there guiding a few days in June and look forward to
getting my feet wet and running my raft down the Pit. All these rivers are such
a treat to go fish as they are one of few places I get to go “close by” that
feel like I have traveled “far away”.
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| Love floating the Pit |
NF Feather River
and NF Yuba River from what I have heard are both fishing well. Both
fisheries will be in trouble this summer with the low water so get your licks
in over the next month as I imagine these will get tough come July/August.
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| Time to get out on the NF Feather! |
Lower Yuba River
is fishing fair to good depending on the day from what I have heard. I have not
been over there lately but flows are hanging around 850cfs which is low but not
“I wouldn’t go” low. June is usually a GREAT month on the Yuba as it gets very
little pressure as people are fishing on all the mountain trout rivers and pass
right by the Lower Yuba. There is plenty of hatches and opportunity to fish
some great Caddis hatches in the evening.
Sports News:
The Giants are playing great baseball even though they split a 4 game series
with the Braves over the weekend. They had the shot to win Sunday but an bad
error by Ryan Crawford cost them the game as well as the fact Sergio was not
able to pitch left Casilla in some unfavorable matuch ups. Not a problem though
they are .5 out of first and have been looking really good through the month of
May. Curious to see how 3rd base shakes out now that Casey is down
in Sacramento and how Cain comes along. Overall when I look at the pitching
rotation they have been rolling out and the line up they post every night I am
pretty stoked to be only .5 out of first place.
In other sports news this last weekend was one of the best for
college baseball, the Regional Round of the NCAA Div 1 College tournament. I
would say it rivals the basketball tourney in my book…even may be cooler sense
I am not as big a basketball fan. The college game of baseball is so much fun
to watch as it is so fast passed compared to pro ball. The aluminum bat changes
the game in huge ways for the hitters and pitchers. I watched a lot of innings
of college ball over the last 4 days, even a 14 inning Cal Bears WIN over Texas
A&M at Texas A&M.
Music News:
So, Summer is concert season right…so I have already bought some tickets to see
Built to Spill in Sacramento in July and put a Rocky Votalato and Dave Hause
concert in SF on the calendar for August. Jason Isbell is also playing in Reno
August 9th and I haven’t got tickets yet but I am sure I will.…I
also put a bunch of local chico bands that I like on the calendar for local
shows. Also my new band Royal Oaks is recording in June and should start
playing some shows in June/July around chico…so lots of music over the next few
months.
Also some new albums coming out I am fired up about. Jason
Isbell has a new album “Something more then Free” coming out July 17. Great
summer driving music, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood has a new album coming out
tomorrow June 2, just in time for long summer road trips.