2026 Inland River King Salmon Season Upd

Still a warm day, not as hot as a few days ago though. Water temps dropped a few degrees on the Sacramento River side. Marked some fish on the graph and finally some some schoolie stripers to play with. Salmon are still slow in the lower river until the water temps fall a little more. We will be out looking for the changing conditions and will report what we find.

50th fish catch in the 50th state! 19 year journey to catch a fish in ask 50 states and we were the last stop. 102° day, 74° water temps and we brought 7 Stripers and 4 Catfish to the boat, all released.

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.