4-7-11

Today I guided Dan, Chuck, and Derek on a striper fishing trip. We met at the Boyd's Pump boat ramp on the Feather River at 6:00 AM, launched the boat and headed up towards Shanghi Bend. We began trolling just below the rapids on the East side of the river and it did not take long to get into the fish. Within minutes Chuck hooked up and landed a nice 8 pound male that went into the box. We spent a couple of hours in the area trolling both up stream and down stream and landed around 20 stripers. When all of the boats started to show up we moved down stream towards the pump hole and picked up another 10 fish along the sand bar in 10-12 feet of water. We them went down and tried 1 last spot along the sand at Starr Bend and it proved to be a good decision. We were able to catch another 6 fish and the last one of the day for Chuck was a 12 pound hen that was quickly released after a photo session. All of our fish were caught trolling Yozuri deep divers, and white with a red head seemed to be the most productive color. Out of all of the fish that we caught 7 or 8 were undersized and the rest were nice sized schoolie males. It was a great trip with alot of action!

Casey