Spring Striper spawning time now.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Most of the Striper population will be slowly headed north up the Sacramento River to spawn in April/May around Colusa, CA.

Terry Thomas and I will be out on Wednesday, April 1st, with local guide Shane Harden to test the waters.

We heard something about the mouth of the Feather River which is pretty typical for this time of year.

Mouth of the American River should be a good spot too.

[Tony Buzolich]

Bill,
It's a bit slow starting but a few fish have already arrived and are just working their way up stream. We even took two on the Feather a couple of days ago as well.

We took one home for dinner last week that was buldging with a distended stomach. Curious about what it had been feeding on I opened the stomach only to find that it was empty and the gut was swollen from two very large milt sacks. This guy was ready to spawn NOW.

Water temps on the Sac were approaching 57-58 degrees and this is just about right for the low end temps of spawning.

I'm sure things are going to bust loose real soon and if anybody can you some fish Shane will.

[Darrin.Deel]

All the way in chico a 30# was caught dunking bait about 2 weeks ago