JD RICHEY SPORTFISHING CHARTERS

The last 10 days have been generally marred by extremely windy days (north wind…even worse). Striper fishing has been tougher that it should be and I’m now shifting to some specialty fisheries over the next few weeks.

I had some amazing, best of the year Topwater striper fishing the first half of May last year and the signs seem to be lining up nicely for that over the next 10 to 12 days.

Also, I will be targeting giant stripers like the one above and also doing some 1/2 day shad missions on the American and Feather.

It’s generally been a tough week of fishing. Early on, the Sac & Feather rivers both dropped and the fish bailed (though flows on the Feather just came back up tonight).

So, I headed back to the Delta where the full moon had the fish spawning and a bit off their game. Throw in a seemingly endless streak of north wind days and, well, you get the picture.

I got down to the Delta today, ran 10 miles looking for calm water and then scrubbed the mission. Winds were forecasted to be around 10 and we had 30 knots and it was cold!

Extremely tough day today…water dropped a foot overnight and the fish bailed out. I am taking the weekend to spend with the family and then back at it way downriver on Monday…

Well, it was a beautiful day on the creek…perhaps a little too nice (could have used a tad more wind chop). The water was lower again and we had quite a bit of boat traffic, all of which conspired to make it a tougher bite. We scratched and pecked away for 20-ish bass to 12 pounds, which was still a fun outing but about 1/2 of yesterday’s score.