We started fishing there for Stripers and Shad when I worked at West Capitol Rod & Gun in West Sac around 1970.
Joe Shirshac, Bill King, Harry Boley, Ronny Knop, Frank Pullen, Galen Geller, Mel Jeffs, Cecil Wilder, Walt Bennett, Neil Hansen.......hell, all the fly guys I knew went there back then.
We caught Stripers and Shad wading there but we had to be very careful to not walk off the downstream end of the sandbar which puts you out in the middle of the Sacramento River and in trouble.
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I just talked to old Joe Shirshac on the cell phone and he and Charlie Gonzales are in Charlies boat there right now. Joe said he just had a Striper on and lost it this morning. Early they were busting the surface and Charlie had one chasing his popper to no avail.
Joe went there yesterday morning and landed two Stripers while wading the sandbar.
You park ($5.00/car) in the private marina right at the mouth of the Feather River and walk about 100 yards upstream and then wade out to the sand bar.
You can catch Stripers and Shad there wading now for about a month as long as the Feather and the Sacramento flows stay down.
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This is were Don Rotsma and I hit them big time wading on night back then. We landed too many to count from 10 to 20 pounds. Just the two of us. Don got cleaned out buy a really big one too. Larry Cullens was out there in the dark in his pram really whacking them.
Geller would go up there by himself and fish all night long. Maybe he will tell some of his stories?
Ron Hayashi caught his over 40 pound world record Striper there too.
Professor Bill King caught a 30 pound plus fish there while wading back then. He drove you to the front door of my old fly shop with it in the trunk(front) of his VW bug.Quit a sight.
A group of old fly fishers from Lodi where wading for Shad back in the 1970s and a big school of Stripers showed up. they landed something like 26 Stripers mostly on Shad flies.
Cecil (Jr) Wilder and I would take a portable Coleman stove out with us so we could cook up Shad roe right on the bar "back in the day." We would smoke the rest of the fish.
Not too many years back (~5?) Marilyn and I took our portable barbeque out there with some friends to Shad fish and cook up some "hot dogs".
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