Salmon Fishing Report: American River 9/12/11

10th Sept 003

Fished this morning with Rod and again three days in a row the Warden Flat-Fish with a sardine wrap using HI-VIS P-line did the trick. It looks like a fresh run of salmon are in the American. The 8 lb-er we landed today along with a whole load of chrome fish rolling tells me new fish moved up over night. [...]

Shad Fishing Report: American River 5/27/11

shad 004

Fished with Jeff and Ron this evening and we caught a  SMOKER ! Ron landed one that weighed 5lbs on my scale and was 23″ long ( see photo) We landed 5 and hooked many more. Also Jeff lost one that was close to the same size. Want to go catch some large shad?                             Give me a call (707-477-5175 [...]

American River Shad Fishing Report 5/26/11

shad 002

Fished with Ralph and Lucinda this evening from Cool Ca.  This trip was a donation to DUCKS UNLIMITED. We landed 6 shad and hooked a few more, we had a great time fishing this evening and I hope they come back and fish with me again. There are shad in the river so give me [...]

American River Shad Fishing Report 5/23/11

May 23st 001

Fished with my buddy Dustin this evening and the bite was off a little, but we did catch fish. The wind was blowing 7 to 10 mph and that makes for some not so fun fishing. We did land4 fish and lost more than that. We did have a striper rod out, but no takers [...]

American River Shad Fishing Report 5/21/11

May 21st 001

Fished with Paul and Jeff this evening and we had good number of fish. We landed 16 and lost way more fish. The bite was consistent all evening and the last fish of the evening was a female around 4 lbs. No striper action this evening to report. The Shad are here so let’s go get your [...]

Shad Report: American River 5/20/11

ShadHead

Fished again with Sean and Jeff and we caught fish tonight. ( I just forgot to take pictures ) We landed 8 and used 2 smaller ones for striper bait and wouldn’t you know we hooked into a big one and lost it, when we checked the bait the shad was almost tore in half. [...]

American River Shad Fishing Report 5/18/11

May 18th 003

  Fished this evening  above Watt Ave. with my buddy’s Sean and Jeff. We  landed the first fish right off the bat,then it went dead  till almost dark and we landed 1 more. We also saw 3 different  schools of Striper’s working the shad and other bait fish. Maybe we go for a striper drift? Give me a [...]

American River Shad Fishing Report 5/14/11

Fished last evening above Watt ave. with my buddy’s Sean and Rod. We went 1 for 2 with Sean landing the only fish to the boat. The fish are in the American river system now and the fishing is only going to get better. So book your trip soon, seats are filling fast and we [...]

4/24/11 SHAD, SHAD. SHAD ! !

Shad season is almost here and they should be showing any day now. With the big flows we have had I am hoping for some big runs as well as some big female this year. So book your trip soon. 707-477-5174 Russ

American River Steelhead 1/15/11

steelhead jan 11 001

Fished with my buddy’s Paul and Dustin today, we drifted from Sailors Bar to Rosmore Bar. Paul landed this nice wild hen about 4lbs (released) and one other 1/2 lber, he also had two other grabs. Dustin had two good grabs but no solid hookups. The water flow has settled down to around 3300 cfs and the [...]