Lake Mendo Striper Planting ?
I used to camp out at my mother-in-law's place in Redwood Valley when the steelhead were happening and as the season got warmer the stripers would go off on Lake Mendocino chasing threadfin shad. Some times you'd actually see bait jumping onto the bank trying to get away from the moving schools of stripers. They moved fast too. The trick was to get ahead of the school, kill your motor, and let them come to you. You'd only have time for a couple of casts before they moved on by. Bigger fish were usually more solitary and hung near the dam.
Several times while I was there trucks would come in and dump juvenile stripers at the north boat ramp. I don't remember the trucks being from F&G but seemed more like a private deal.
Charlie's right about the flow not being enough to suspend the eggs. Even if the temperature is right the eggs need to be free-drifting for 24-48 hours to become viable enough to survive.
Anyone know about stripers in Millerton or Don Pedro? Do any of these inland lakes have spawning populations?
TONY BUZOLICH
Feather River Fly
Yuba City, CA.
(530) 790-7180
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