Bass Lake kicking out big trout, Mike Beighey reported. New Melones bass moving shallow, Kyle Wise said. McClure Res ...

Bass are best utilizing forward facing sonar using jig head minnow presentations ... After the freeze there was a shad kill resulting in a tougher catfish bite. Continue to drift fresh cut ...

On low flow days, jumbo live minnows got the attention of striped ... Boaters can troll Needlefish, Tasmanian Devils, or Berkley’s Flicker Shad crankbaits around the dam for holdovers.

Since then, the lure, now known as the Flicker Shad, has proven effective both while ... The first time I saw walleyes being caught with this fork-tail minnow was from the banks of the Missouri ...

Largemouth bass are good on artificial grubs and minnows in Sanford Yake Cove and Bugbee. Catfish are good around Harbor Bay with chicken liver and frozen shad. No reports of crappie this week.

The bait we are talking about are shad and if there are shad present ... Jigs, hand tied, soft plastic or otherwise plus minnows. Bring them all and use what the fish are biting best.

benefiting from clear spots of water and the year's abundance of shad minnows — a popular food source for sturgeon. About a week before the season started, sturgeon biologist Ron Bruch had said ...

Stripers should be around the shad, but not all shad schools attract stripers. Use brood minnows or live shad for bait. Keep a top-water lure tied on to cast toward surfacing stripers. Stripers ...

Hybrids and white bass are good on flukes. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on cut shad. CHOKE CANYON: Water stained; 60 degrees; 33.77’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft ...