San Francisco Area Freshwater Reports 6/15/06

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Trout plantings and local places: Bay Area, this week . . . Lake Chabot
(Castro Valley), 500 pounds. Horseshoe Lake at Quarry Lakes Regional
Park (Union City-Fremont), 500 pounds. Shadow Cliffs (Pleasanton), 500
pounds. Lake Del Valle (Livermore), 1,000 pounds. Also: Santa Clara
County's Coyote Reservoir and Santa Cruz's Loch Lomond Reservoir. Notes
from the local lakes: The East Bay Regional Park district's Officer in
Charge of All Things Fish notes that good stuff is happening in about
all the lakes and reservoirs. At Del Valle, both trout and bass have a
thing for night crawlers; trollers, meanwhile, are getting their fish
near the dam. At Contra Loma, a 12.1-pound black bass was caught on ...
a night crawler. More old news from the same newsletter: One guy landed
two rainbow trout, 15 and 16 pounds, on PowerBait (rainbow) at Horseshoe
Lake's Fisherman's Row. Slighter more up-to-date: Lake Chabot's water
level is still rising and, somehow, so is the surface temperature. As a
result (more of the latter than the former), the trout fishing has
slowed. Most likely spot to still catch a couple, few trout is the
lake's Half Moon Bay. El Sobrante's San Pablo Reservoir was loaded
fairly heavily with trout (2,400 pounds) and catfish (1,250 pounds) last
week. The surface temp is 68 degrees, but the fish are still snapping to
baits, with the shoreliners getting both trout (PowerBait) and catfish
(about anything), and the trollers getting their trout, as well. Also,
there are the usual large and somewhat elusive bass back in Scow Canyon,
and even some bluegill (red worms or bits of night crawler) and crappie
(minnows and minijigs) around and by the boat launch. Over at Los
Vaqueros Reservoir, near Livermore, there are stocked trout, plus
holdover salmon (of the "Chinook" variety), plus black and striped bass
(a 17-plus-pounder was caught not so long ago). Oak Point and the
Rockwall seem to be the hot spots.
Others: Alpine County's Carson River (East and West forks); Butte's
Desalba and Paradise reservoirs, and Thermalito Forebay; Calaveras'
Angels Creek and White Pines Lake; Colusa's Letts Lake; Del Norte's Dry
Lake; El Dorado's Echo Lake (Lower); Lassen's Blue Lake; Placer's French
Meadows Reservoir; Plumas' Antelope Reservoir, Davis Lake and Lake
Almanor; Shasta's Burney Creek (Lower, Middle and Upper), Hatchet and
Hat creeks (Middle and Upper) Baum Lake and Sacramento River (above
Sweetbriar); Sierra's Little Truckee River (at Highway 89) and Yuba
River (North Fork); Siskiyou's Juanita Lake, McCloud River (at Fowler's
Camp), Sacramento River (at Dunsmuir), Sacramento River (South Fork),
Siskiyou Lake, and Bear Creek (Lower and Upper).