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Bill Kiene semi-retired
07-09-2006, 09:32 AM
If you have not tried this yet, it is very addictive fly fishing.

It is picking up now that the Shad are slowing.

Most fish caught are under 10 pounds but you will see fish 20-30 pounds daily in the clear water as you float the river.

You need a stable, flat bottom boat that is 8 to 16 feet long with oars that are long enough to control the boat. River anchors are needed too.

You need a 9' fast action #6-9 weight rod with a fast sinking line and a Clouser Minnow.

Get a friend and hire a local guide for the first time to speed up the learning curve.

It will be good into October.

Fish can be in the entire length of the river now.

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lee s.
07-09-2006, 10:47 AM
With our "weakness" for top-water and night fishing, we are restricted to the very lower river. What little we have done on the A has been in July and that month has been very kind to us.
Now the danged decision is whether to do shad till dark or be at D.P. in time to launch for a night foray. :?
....lee s.

Tony Buzolich
07-09-2006, 10:59 PM
Hi Lee.

You should know you can do both.

Launch late at Discovery and head upstream all the way to Paradise. Fish shad along the seam at the top of the riprap or around the island between the black trussle RR bidge and business 80 bridge. Both are good shad spots.
As darkness approachs, pull anchor and drift those same channels you just drove over for stripers.

Late, late, drop back some more below the black bridge and hit that whole area clear down to that little trailer park you passed on the way up.

You can always leave Discovery any time you want just don't back up over the one-way grate going out.

Hope to see you out there,
TONY

rasbrown
07-10-2006, 08:26 AM
Fished the Lower Yuba for shad yesterday afternoon and evening. Put in at the Marysville ramp and motored up past Hallwood. Shad are getting sparse, but did notice some good sized stripers in the lower section.

Bill Kiene semi-retired
07-10-2006, 08:40 AM
Where in a jet boat? or prop?

Tony Buzolich
07-10-2006, 12:46 PM
Only jets up there now. The mouth of the Yuba at the Feather is so low you can wade from the Yuba City side all the way across to the other side of the Yuba at Linda. Farther up it actually gets better once you get past the mouth.

I just got off the water at Boyd's Pump and it's getting pretty shallow in places down there too. Right at the ramp is still okey but up about a 1/4 mile it gets down to two feet for a long ways. Heading down river toward Star Bend or the Bear is worse if you have a prop.
TONY

rasbrown
07-10-2006, 09:24 PM
We were in a prop boat, but it is one of those bayou duck hunting boats with a Go Devil motor. The prop is approximately 8' behind the boat on a shaft with support structure and can be lifted out of the water when it gets too shallow by pressing down on the tiller. It is the M1-A1 equivalent of a boat.

The only other boats we saw upstream, there were only two, were jets.