2026 Inland River King Salmon Season Upd

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.

Today's charter started off right at high tide before the outgoing started. We marked scattered fish and had several strikes trolling A rigs. They were hitting the dummy teasers on the A rigs. We boated our first 20 inch fish pretty quickly. After making another move to search for more fish, we continued to get strikes on A rigs and trolling minnows from Snagum n Bagum custom tackle. After making a move to another slough and finding more marks on the sonar and getting more teaser strikes, we made it happen. Our young men we had on board hit a 7 pound 11 ounce striper. We got a bright healthy male striper over the rail and big smiles all around. We continued to troll got a few hours and even dropped cut baits on a school of fish. Cut bait produced multiple shaker like bites and the tide was really slowing down now. We made one more trolling pass and called it a day. We came back to the marina, cleaned a couple of nice healthy fish and sent our guests home with fresh fish for dinner. Water temps in the Mokolumne River were 65-67° We specialize in getting families on the water and provide a safe, fun environment for kids to catch their first fish!

Started out the morning checking on some of the places we most recently caught lots of fish. The temperatures came up to a high of 89° for the day. Water temps that were nid 50s just a couple of weeks ago were between 63-67° in our regular spots. We marked allot of scattered fish throughout both sides of the rivers. We started on the San Joaquin side and after a couple hours of working a couple of spots, we moved to the Sacramento river side. We used everything from cut sardines, to trolling the normal stick baits from snagum n Bagum custom tackle. In between we ran A rigs from snagum and even threw glide baits they just custom painted for this trip. After working several spots and using a variety of techniques, we called it for the day with the first skunk in many months. We did get some reliable Intel from other boats on the river that were way upriver from us and found cooler water and a handful of fish. We will be back on the water for a charter next Monday and will update our findings after that trip as well. We are always thankful to our favorite photographer, Delta Demi for getting photos from her bridge for us.