05-12-2014, 09:08 PM
[#0000FF]There have been a couple of reports in the past few days but no good ones. The fish are there but are turned off by storms and low water temps. They usually like a bit of chop but not if it's cold too.
Haven't heard of any walleyes but they should get active...after their spawn. May and June are usually pretty good if you can find the fish.
There were a LOT of trout in Yuba for a while. After they dropped the lake to nothing...to repair the dam...DWR planted a bunch of rainbows to provide a fishery while other species came back. The low water had allowed the fathead minnows from the Sevier River to explode in population and the trout grew big and fat on them...until the growing perch population finished off the minnows. Before that there were rainbows up to 8#...and lots of 5-6 pounders.
The big ones spawned and died out and the growing northern pike population ate or harassed the others to death. Haven't seen or heard of any trout for a few years now.
Here are a few from the brief glory days.
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Haven't heard of any walleyes but they should get active...after their spawn. May and June are usually pretty good if you can find the fish.
There were a LOT of trout in Yuba for a while. After they dropped the lake to nothing...to repair the dam...DWR planted a bunch of rainbows to provide a fishery while other species came back. The low water had allowed the fathead minnows from the Sevier River to explode in population and the trout grew big and fat on them...until the growing perch population finished off the minnows. Before that there were rainbows up to 8#...and lots of 5-6 pounders.
The big ones spawned and died out and the growing northern pike population ate or harassed the others to death. Haven't seen or heard of any trout for a few years now.
Here are a few from the brief glory days.
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