Yuba Reservoir
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Rating - Fair
Sunday, Apr 21 2024
April 9 , 2024: DWR biologists recently sampled Yuba Reservoir. Water levels in the reservoir have been astonishingly low over the last few years, raising concerns about the survival and abundance of species such as walleye. When our biologists were out targeting northern pike and tiger muskie, they were excited to find an abundance of walleye that were 16 to 19 inches. Of the 37 walleye caught, 27 were in this size range. These walleye could be from a large fish stocking event in 2018, or successful natural recruitment over the past years.Fishing forecast (March through May): Ice on the reservoir normally starts to thaw or open up by mid-February. Ice off happens quickly, resulting in the reservoir being open water and ice-free by March. The water level has typically reached 40 percent capacity (or more) by this time, allowing boat anglers to launch from both Oasis and Painted Rocks boat ramps. Hazards still exist at the water level, and buoys are usually in place at Oasis to remind anglers to use caution when launching. spring fishing is fair for shore anglers, and fair to good for boat anglers targeting walleye , channel catfish, tiger Muskie, wiper and northern pike. we recommend anglers try using streamers ( such as chip's northern magic, Barry's baitfish 2.0, lefty's deceiver and Murdich Minnow), minnow and Berkley power bait sick fish and spinner baits ( such as blue fox foxtail super vibrax, panther martin, Muskie marabuck, mepps dressed agila and mepps dressed black fury). bait fishing using fresh cut bait ( common carp, utah sucker, utah chub) can be very effective. we recommend fishing the baits suspended using a pike float rig or slip-float rig. drift trolling using bottom bounce and three-way rigs can be very effective in April and may, particularly for walleye. we recommend using a bottom bouncer with a crawler harness or spinner harness, a three-way rig with a minnow imitation crankbait ( such as a rapala shad rap, rapala husky jerk, or walleye nation shaky shad) , or either rig with a soft plastic grub ( such as a trigger x swimming grub, northland impulse swim'n grub, or lindy watsit grub).
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Yuba Reservoir
RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!
Rating - Fair
April 9 , 2024: DWR biologists recently sampled Yuba Reservoir. Water levels in the reservoir have been astonishingly low over the last few years, raising concerns about the survival and abundance of species such as walleye. When our biologists were out targeting northern pike and tiger muskie, they were excited to find an abundance of walleye that were 16 to 19 inches. Of the 37 walleye caught, 27 were in this size range. These walleye could be from a large fish stocking event in 2018, or successful natural recruitment over the past years.Fishing forecast (March through May): Ice on the reservoir normally starts to thaw or open up by mid-February. Ice off happens quickly, resulting in the reservoir being open water and ice-free by March. The water level has typically reached 40 percent capacity (or more) by this time, allowing boat anglers to launch from both Oasis and Painted Rocks boat ramps. Hazards still exist at the water level, and buoys are usually in place at Oasis to remind anglers to use caution when launching. spring fishing is fair for shore anglers, and fair to good for boat anglers targeting walleye , channel catfish, tiger Muskie, wiper and northern pike. we recommend anglers try using streamers ( such as chip's northern magic, Barry's baitfish 2.0, lefty's deceiver and Murdich Minnow), minnow and Berkley power bait sick fish and spinner baits ( such as blue fox foxtail super vibrax, panther martin, Muskie marabuck, mepps dressed agila and mepps dressed black fury). bait fishing using fresh cut bait ( common carp, utah sucker, utah chub) can be very effective. we recommend fishing the baits suspended using a pike float rig or slip-float rig. drift trolling using bottom bounce and three-way rigs can be very effective in April and may, particularly for walleye. we recommend using a bottom bouncer with a crawler harness or spinner harness, a three-way rig with a minnow imitation crankbait ( such as a rapala shad rap, rapala husky jerk, or walleye nation shaky shad) , or either rig with a soft plastic grub ( such as a trigger x swimming grub, northland impulse swim'n grub, or lindy watsit grub).
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