6-15-11

Today I guided Dick and Ralph for stripers. The guys had some meetings to tend to this morning so we got an early start of 12:30PM! Any of you who have fished with me in the past know that i live by the old saying "the early bird gets the worm", but today I had to work around their schedule. We launched out of the Colusa State Park and headed the boat north. I drove until I did not see any more boats and we started fishing. We got the rods rigged with minnows and got set to make our first pass. Within seconds we had a double hook up and landed two nice stripers, 1 keeper and 1 shaker. We continued to make another 6 passes in this spot with the same results, "double hookups". We only managed to get a couple keepers though as most of the fish were 16-17.5 inchers. We continued our way down stream and had the same results almost every where that we stopped. Alot of under sized fish and a keeper here and there. We made it back to the boat ramp around 6:00 PM, having caught 6 nice keepers for the box and roughly 30 shakers. The action was non stop and what the fish were lacking in quality they made up in quantity. It was another great day on the water and I can only hope that the striper fishing will hold out until the salmon make an appearance.  

Casey