4-12-11

I have been off of the river for a few days now but today I got back on the water. I met clients Dick and Rudy this morning in Nicholaus and we headed down to Verona to launch the boat. I had figured that the fish would be some where between the Bear river and Verona by now with the water still dropping but boy was I wrong. We launched at Verona and started fishing right away. We trolled at the mouth of the Feather and worked our way all the way up to the Nicholaus bridge with only a few grabs and no fish landed. We then went above the bridge and began to pick up a fish here and there, and it looked as if we had found them. We made our way up the East side of the river towards the Mouth of the Bear. The closer we got to the Bear river the better the fishing got and within a couple of hours we had landed 35 legal stripers and a handful of shakers. Most of the fish were again in the 3-6 pound range with the biggest of the day caught being 14 pounds. The 14 pounder was a female and she was released to fight another day. We trolled Yozuri deep divers over on the mud line and the hot color of the day was again a white lure with a red head. It was a great day on the water with a couple of great guys. Dick has another trip booked for the 20TH so stay tuned, you will see him on the blog again shortly!

Casey