Lake Oroville

Hey NCKA Fishermen,
     I am going to a wedding this weekend at Lake Oroville and was wondering if anyone had and leads as to where to fish and what kind of terminal tackle to use for salmon.
     Any information will be helpful, because I have never been to this lake.
     I will bring back pictures and post them if I get anything, and if I find a hot spot I will GPS it for you guys/gals.
     Thanks, Columbus.

Hey Columbus - I've been to Oroville once - a while back. We fished from shore right on the Dam. Lot's of bass hanging by the rocks. I suggest trolling along the dam with a rapala. Would love to visit this lake sometime - rent a house boat and use it for a mothership for the kayaks.

For salmon - use a 2 to 3 ounce banana sinker and tie a shad rap behind it - if your fishing deep. You can almost catch anything on a shad rap = MY FAVORITE ALL TIME freshwater lure  

Anyway, good luck and take pics!

Joel,

A much more economical trip would be to utilize the "floating campgrounds" they have @ Oroville.  Check it out here...

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/462/files/LakeOroville.pdf

Going rate is $100 a night, I believe.  Of course, you are stuck in the vicinity of that one location, but it looks kind of cool.

Columbus,

Sorry, don't know much about the salmon fishing there (although I've caught them while trolling shad colored bass plugs...)

Thanks for that info Gordon!

Are you the guy I met at Linda Mar just recently - floating around in a white zodiac?

Or are you the guy I met last year at Moss Landing - paddling a Hobie?

That was me in the Hobie @ Moss.  As I recall, I was having a lot of electonics problems that day (depthfinder wouldn't work, GPS wouldn't lock onto any satellites, etc.)  Turns out my GPS is so old, the government changed the coordinate system in Y2K so the thing is useless now...

the government changed the coordinate system in Y2K so the thing is useless now...

that sucks