We are all waiting for the Shad Master, Jeff Ching, to post his first catch for 2019

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

With all the water this year we should have another great, long American Shad run on the Lower American River.

I think that May/June is the prime time for the American River run.

It will be cool to see when the first fish is caught.


In the past years Shad seem to get caught first at the mouth of the American and mouth of he Feather Rivers from anchored boats.


If the Sacramento and Feather rivers get low enough maybe we can have a Forum outing wading the sandbar at the mouth of the

Feather river?

[Luckee]

True fact, we are waiting for that! I was glad to see your board back up when I checked last night -- thanks Bill.

Last year my first hookups on the Feather happened around 4/20.

[Carl Blackledge]

Bill,

As you know the 3rd week n April is usually the starting date @Verona :)
Carl Blackledge

[Jeff C.]

I’ve been chomping at the bit for them to show up! Since the have been no reports from Freeport, Verona and Discovery Park, I’m thinking it won’t be until May before they show up on the American. When they do they will just shoot up because of the high flows and not hold down low. I’m going to start looking for them in the lower river next week.

[Larry S]

Virginia's ShadCam is up and running; Just saw a few fish pose
for the camera.
https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/shadcam/

Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego

[winxp_man]

Virginia's ShadCam is up and running; Just saw a few fish pose
for the camera.
https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/shadcam/

Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego

My first click on it I saw a shad! :D

That’s a first for me! Thanks for the reminder Larry!

[Scott V]

https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/-/shadcam/ALive_0001000010.jpg

[Larry S]

Aron & Scott,
If you look at the date, it's 4/11/19.
Still; a fish. Sometimes, the area gets inundated
with high water and it takes a bit for
things to get back online.
Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego

[winxp_man]

Aron & Scott,
If you look at the date, it's 4/11/19.
Still; a fish. Sometimes, the area gets inundated
with high water and it takes a bit for
things to get back online.
Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego

Hahaha thought it was real time!

[dave earl]

anybody have an online CFS gauge for Verona they can share?
thanks

[McFish]

Hi Dave, check out the CDEC pages; many state sponsored stations on most streams. Not all have cfs; some only have water height. Hit and miss, but station von at Verona has cfs, water temp, many others. Check this url http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=von&end=undefined. See you at lakewood or Tuesday at the meeting.

[nightgoat]

There is also this:

https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=VONC1

[gwris]

Was at Verona Tuesday morning. Only four feet of clearance on metal walkway out to dock. The pull through to launch your boat was a second launch. Never seen it so high. Parking lot was a lake. Sac was brown, Feather brownish green. Striper fishermen seemed to be doing OK. One Shad fisherman out. Didn't see him catch anything while I was there.
I see that water level is coming down though. Yea.

[ErikB]

Went to Verona this Saturday for nada. Still 57.8 degrees and water was dirtier than previous weekend coming out of Feather. Water too high so feel the fish are just pushing right on through and not slowing down to play. I see that Discovery Park is reopening on April 30th. Are all of the other parks now open for boat launching?

Thanks Erik B

[Larry S]

Looks like the Virginia Shad Cam is back on line.
Best to all,
Larry S
Sun Diego

[dave earl]

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=von&end=undefined

CDEC shows about 32K CFS at Verona now. Anybody know what CFS should be when we like it?
Ideally when the bar forms to wade out the that slot they come up or at least launch a small boat with getting into trouble?

[Jeff Stephens]

Last year at this time Verona was at 16000 it dropped to around 9k by mid May according to my notes. Fished Verona yesterday fishable but the Feather is kinda dirty. Got a couple of smaller stripers. Type 6 Sink and typical Clouser patterns. Seen a couple of boats fishing for Shad (at the mouth)but don’t know how they did.

[dave earl]

Cool Jeff, thats super useful, thanks man
!!

[Larry S]

Lots of action.
Good cure for insomnia.

Virginia's ShadCam is up and running; Just saw a few fish pose
for the camera.
https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/shadcam/

Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego[/QUOTE]