San Francisco Area Reports 9/1/05

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FRESHWATER
Salmon rivers: The Klamath remains decent, if not "good," with salmon
and steelhead still streaming in. Guide Harvey Young (514-469-2422)
recommends the lower end of the river, from just above the Highway 101
Bridge to maybe 10 miles upstream. He's doing his damage side drifting
the shallows with clusters of salmon eggs (double red and orange red).
The salmon are 7-15 pounds, with a sprinkling of 20 and 30-pounders, and
the steelhead go mostly from half- pounders to about 8 pounds ... The
Lower Sacramento River (707-484-7244; 530- 515-8680) continues to
improve daily, as more and more salmon arrive. Tuesday's count has 6,041
kings counted at Red Bluff, way up from the 3,595 tallied at this same
time last year. The guides are working from Anderson- Balls Ferry to
Hamilton City, backtrolling K-15 Kwikfish in the early morning and
switching to roe when the sun touches river. Guide John Pizza's
prediction: wide open by next week ... Nothing happening at all on the
Feather. A report from the weekend had eight boats working it, with one
fish caught ... The American is welcoming salmon with its cool, clear
water. Bob Spare (916-863- 5866) guided Sunday, and his group of two got
limits, six fish to 22 pounds (limit here is three per person). Sparre
fishes between Sunrise and Sailor Bar, side drifting and boondoggling
(ask your guide) roe. From shore: Try cating large spinners at Discovery
Park or drifting beads and yarn up toward Nimbus.
Fish plantings: Bay Area ... Amazingly light with the stocking this
week, considering how we're heading into Labor Day weekend and all.
Other than San Pablo Reservoir, the only East Bay lakes to make the
DFG's list are Horseshoe Lake at Quarry Lakes Regional Park (750 pounds
of trout), Castro Valley's Lake Chabot, and Livermore's Del Valle and
Los Vaqueros reservoirs. El Sobrante's San Pablo Reservoir is down for
2,400 pounds of trout this week, along with 1, 260 pounds of channel
catfish.