Stripers are still biting in Winter!

Another 94° day with 73° water temps in our area. Spent the day looking for more early season salmon. Allot more boats on the water today than 2 days ago in our area. We marked some stacked schools in several areas. We ran the usual patterns of trolling scorpion salmon spinners and hooked one shaker striper. We continued searching our regular areas and fished for Stripers and Salmon with deep diver stick baits and scorpion salmon spinners. Once we marked some stacked fish, we dropped p line laser minnows on them, but no takers. Switched over to some cut bait fishing on anchor and started hooking more shaker Stripers right before the end of the small outgoing tide. Our morning tides this week are small and bigger 3 to 4 foot tides are in the evenings. We will be off the water for 2 days and back on another charter Sunday. We will report back on the findings for that day.

Hot day on the river with temps pushing high 90s and still water temps at 74°. We spent the morning trolling for Salmon and Stripers with some mixed in bait fishing stops as tides changed. We ended up bouncing jigs for a couple of hookups on shaker Stripers. We just came off the full moon and the fish should be pushing in from the ocean, but with the warm water, they will be flying through our area. We will continue to search for fish as the season continues and we'll keep you posted on our findings.

Started off the morning doing a search pattern on the old Salmon grounds above the Rio Vista bridge. Water temps on the surface were right at 73 degrees and stayed there for the day. Water had some grass and weeds in it but not too bad. We were able to mark some fish down along the bottom channel and the deeper holes. We ran a few downstream trolling patterns using our old trusty Scorpion Salmon Spinners that we designed years ago for Shasta Tackle. We were using the 3 way dropper weights to bounce close to the bottom with the spinners. We headed up a narrow section of the river looking for fish hopefully stacking up in the holes and deeper channels and didn't mark hardly any fish at all. We moved back into the main river and started dropping P Line Laser Minnows on the few schools of fish we found suspended and hooked into some shaker sized Stripers. We ended the day and headed back to the docks to clean up the boat and get things put away for the busy weekend we had planned off the water. After speaking with our guests on Saturday, they informed us the water temps were reading a little lower than Friday on our boat. They did report working the river for the morning and not finding any fish on Saturday on their own boat. We will be back on the water this week tracking water temps and following the fish migrating up river. Please follow us on all socials under Team Mc Fishing Guide Service for continued reports, photos and videos. Contact us for any questions you have prior to booking a trip so we can offer you the best experience possible.