It’s been a few days since my last post. Last week was an amazing bite, water conditions mixed with the high heat, made for what seemed like every fish in the world to join up and spawn right in front of the verona docks. in four days we boated around 130 fish. We have it all on film look the show to air next month (wild fish wild places) on the sportsmans channel.The big spawn is over in that area. from here on out it will be small groups, and should be consistent good fishing.

Full crew today, who were 30 mins late but it did not matter. We boated 25 fish by 10:30am, too 15lbs!The sac is dropping fast do to irrigation pumping, so my fish moved down another 5 miles this morning.Going to move down river tomorrow, should be a great striper bite! I have a few dates still open at the end of the month.

Great bite going on rite now on the Sacramento River. Lots of fish under the boat this morning. 

Wide open striper bite today on the Sacramento River! I am working the Colusa, down section of river. The latest storms brought the river up almost 2 ft, and with it a bunch of new striped bass. We boated over 20 fish by 8:30 today. We have not been seeing any real big fish, most fish are 3 to 8 pounds, but there are lots of them. We have some dates still open at the end of May.

The striper fishing on the Sacramento River the past few days really doesn’t get much better!!  The water color from last week’s rains just got clean enough to fish live bait on April 5th.  Since then we have had limits every day, and a hand full of 20 fish days, which is a great sign this early in the season.  Most all the fish are between 3 and 8 lbs with no shakers, (under sized fish).  I have only four days open the rest of this month April 13/14/23/26.  There are still a lot of great dates open in May. Give us a call and get in on some of this great striper action!!!

We have been saved by these latest storms here in the north valley.  The past three storms have made up for the crazy dry winter we had here. Our lakes are just about full so I think we are going have all the water we need for a great striper season. I just started making my calls this week. My April is half filled, but still lots of dates open.  Remember we start April 1st and run though the first part of June. Stripers are heading this way soon; check in and book a date soon. 

   The steelhead fishing on the Yuba river has been just great. I have been fishing about 2 days a week out of our small jet boat, landing anywhere from 12 to 25 fish a day. Most the fish are between 14&21in and really hard fighters.  I have been using all egg pattern. I’am going to slow down up there from here on out, only doing one day a week,  Duck season has been going for a few weeks now, the club I work for did really good the first week.  Now we are just getting a few specks out of one blind.  The too marsh’s I run are still shooting Limits of mostly mallards, 3 days a week. My guide blind is still not fully flooded as of today. From the reports I have been getting only a few blinds around sutter are shooting a few ducks as they were the first in the area to get water. I shot in the sink last Friday and in one word it was (bad).

  OK after two weeks of really kind of poor fishing in the Feather River we now have fish.  I went to the ocean on Wednesday on a cod and halibut boat, and seen the salmon fleet.  There were two big schools of fish just off the coast, and about 4 miles up.  The past two days fishing in Chico have been absolutely awesome,  yesterday we landed 8 out of 12 by noon. Today I had three guys and boated 6 of 8 by 1clock.  These salmon are dime bright bullets and fight like crazy.  From what I seen in two days most fish have been between 6 and 12 lbs. You can get up to the hour up dates by checking us out on facebook for river guide service or me Aaron Zanocco. I have posted pictures from the past week on my page. I’am just now starting to book some trips for this late August and September salmon run,

  It’s been 3 long years but finally the long a waited salmon season opener has happened.  In short it was the very worst I have ever seen in my 15 years of fishing on opening day.  Me and my crew fished Redbluff to coyote creek, Out of the 40 boats we fished around I only saw maybe 3 fish caught.  On July 16th spoke with at least a dozen different guide boats up and down both the sac and feather rivers, and out of maybe 250 boats who went out on opening day I only heard of about 45 salmon being caught.  From what I tell most of the fish in the feather river shot up to the after bay last week when DWR dropped the flow from 8000cfs to 2500cfs.  In sac river no one really has good answers to why there are no fish, one good theory is due to are big spring and hi flows in all the tributaries most all of the spring salmon shot up those creeks. We fished hard on opening day, in all the of the five main spots in redbluff, and never had a bite or saw one fish roll. 

  There some good news from all this, I have been getting all kinds of good reports coming from the salt. I have herd of several big schools of salmon above and below San Francisco. These fish are heading are way. Hopefully we should start seeing salmon here in the rivers by mid August. I’am looking forward to a big September. I’am going to booking trips as soon I start seeing some jump around.

 Striper fishing has been all most as good as the 2006 season, averaging about 15-25 fish per day. I have had a few off days on the sac only cause of the water going up and down do to snow melt.  Starting this week it looks like the weather is going to be sunny and warm for the next 10 days.  Once we have 2 days on the sac with stable conditions it’s going to be incredible fishing.  The fishing on the feather has still been good, just a lot of small fish.  I changed over to the feather river yesterday do to the sac getting muddy. We landed 15 keeper fish and maybe 10 shakers, by noon.  I have not boated any real big hens yet, last week we let go about 8/10 hens ranging from 8 to 15 lbs.  I have been getting a lot of report’s that people are starting to get big hens over 20lbs the past few days. Starting Monday I will return to the feather river, and work my down from yuba city.  I still have about 12 days open in May, give us a call striper fishing next month is going to be wide open.