San Francisco Area Freshwater Report 12/1/05

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FRESHWATER
Rivers: Another storm hooked in Wednesday night and was supposed to dump rain and
snow on the North Coast through Friday. Best bets for salmon are the Smith (maybe by
Saturday), the Lower Sacramento River near Anderson and the American. For steelhead,
try the Trinity, where more and more fish are moving in with the increased river
flow.
Trout plantings: Bay Area, this week ... Contra Loma Reservoir (Antioch), 500
pounds. Lake Chabot (Castro Valley), 500 pounds. Horseshoe Lake at Quarry Lakes
Regional Park (Union City-Fremont), 500 pounds. Del Valle Reservoir (Livermore), 750
pounds. Last week, Santa Rosa's Lake Ralphine was stocked, along with Marin County's
Bon Tempe Lake.
More lakes: Bass pro Jim Munk fished Berryessa just before the cold, wet weather
started in and reported 30- and 40-fish days, working a Lucky Craft lure (shad
pattern) along the east shore, from bank to 15-feet deep. The catch was a mix of
largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass. In Munk's learned opinion, the weather
won't put the fishing down much, if at all ... South Bay's Anderson Lake is fishing
well for bass, most small, but nearly all willing to bite at plastic worms (4 inch),
either split-shotted or drop-shotted. Also some quality fishing at Calero,
drop-shotting or working a Carolina rig deep ... The striped bass action at San Luis
Reservoir (at the intersection of Desolation and Nowhere, near Los Baños) is fairly
wide open, with fish to 17 pounds this week hitting top-water lures (from shore),
jumbo minnows, anchovy and frozen shad.