Hey Guys! New to Delta and still trying to figure this out! Is anyone having success in Hog or Beaver slough this summer? I've done well there in the spring, but really struggling this summer and last. Curious if it's just me, timing or something changes with these sloughs this time of year? Being from Sac, it's great to be able to drop in at Wimpy's and be trolling motor down after a 10 min run.
Thanks in advance for any comments!
Hog & Beaver summertime?
Re: Hog & Beaver summertime?
They go into dead end sloughs in the spring to spawn and avoid the current. In the summer current is your friend and many fish have come back out to the river. Try fishing closer the the mouth of each slough and on the moke itself. Lots of good crankbait water all over the place.
Re: Hog & Beaver summertime?
Ya current and cover are your friends for the summer. The water in the main rivers or where there is current is cleaner and cooler with higher oxygen levels and carries food right to their mouths.
"Jig fish are big fish"
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Cooch
Re: Hog & Beaver summertime?
Great advice by ScottyJ & MT, the scenario's they described, can be followed all over the Delta.
One thing overlooked though by many anglers, are those big resident fish that never leave the dead end sloughs. Many of them are out in the middle of the sloughs, burried in the grass beds or suspending on deeper break lines behind or right under yer boat. Most guys struggle to git out of that 0-6' comfort zone where they catch the most of their fish. What they don't realize, is that these River bass, do not live in that shallow zone. They only frequent the shallows periodically to either feed or like in the spring, to run up and spawn.
Visit the deeper haunts from the middle of those sloughs out to the Moke. Use you graph to find the breaks, deeper grass beds and possibly big schools of suspending bass that you would normally over look here. Your electronics can be huge here this time of year when fish move much deeper after spawning. A bass is a bass, no matter where they reside, we're in the middle of a huge shad spawn right now, find that bait like ya would on a lake, you'll find the bass.
Also, current is not always the answer, in as much as we tend to catch a lot of fish near current now through fall, these as a rule tend to be the smaller, more active river fish that can sustain themselves by running all over and gorging themselves like stripers on the small shad fry. The bigger bass here are not gonna follow this pattern day in and day out. Their body mass and biological make up is not one that is designed for them to be in current for extended periods of time. The key is isolated spots "near" current, that they can hunker in, laying in wait out of that flow, for something to come to them. The deeper weed beds and structural changes out in the middle of these sloughs, offer those bigger fish the ideal place to just go hunker, and be their obeese and lazy selves.
One thing overlooked though by many anglers, are those big resident fish that never leave the dead end sloughs. Many of them are out in the middle of the sloughs, burried in the grass beds or suspending on deeper break lines behind or right under yer boat. Most guys struggle to git out of that 0-6' comfort zone where they catch the most of their fish. What they don't realize, is that these River bass, do not live in that shallow zone. They only frequent the shallows periodically to either feed or like in the spring, to run up and spawn.
Visit the deeper haunts from the middle of those sloughs out to the Moke. Use you graph to find the breaks, deeper grass beds and possibly big schools of suspending bass that you would normally over look here. Your electronics can be huge here this time of year when fish move much deeper after spawning. A bass is a bass, no matter where they reside, we're in the middle of a huge shad spawn right now, find that bait like ya would on a lake, you'll find the bass.
Also, current is not always the answer, in as much as we tend to catch a lot of fish near current now through fall, these as a rule tend to be the smaller, more active river fish that can sustain themselves by running all over and gorging themselves like stripers on the small shad fry. The bigger bass here are not gonna follow this pattern day in and day out. Their body mass and biological make up is not one that is designed for them to be in current for extended periods of time. The key is isolated spots "near" current, that they can hunker in, laying in wait out of that flow, for something to come to them. The deeper weed beds and structural changes out in the middle of these sloughs, offer those bigger fish the ideal place to just go hunker, and be their obeese and lazy selves.
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