8/16 - Delta Salmon Trolling

Heading out of Vieras or somewhere close by to paddle for the pink meat. 6 AM launch. Will have my radio on.

Hello Brian, I live in Mountain House. I just want to know where are launching. I love to know places here in the area rather than going santa cruz or hmb. TIA

Randy

I am going out Viera ' s resort. 10 bucks parking which is 5 more than the county parks but I view as a 5 dollar insurance against auto breakin.

Good luck Brian... Let us know how it goes.

Freddie

 I launch from the shore off of river rd. in rio vista. Fished the afternoon incoming tide today and nada. I was trolling flatfish with a sardine wrap. Marked a bunch and saw a couple salmon jump. I've gone out twice in my yak and twice on my buddy's boat. Only got one nice 20# chrome on the opening week on a silvertron. Salmon are there, but getting them to bite is another thing. I'm gonna try again tomorrow afternoon. Going out with my uncle in his boat. Hopefully the bite happens on trolling spinners.

I put a couple hours in pulling a green and yellow wiggle wart.  Nothing much happening. Got too warm and forgot water so I didn't last too long.

Double bladed Silvertrons in chartreuse and chrome boys!  Behind 1oz. Cannonballs.

I'm sticking to my wiggle worts. Blades later in the year.

I'm sticking to my wiggle worts. Blades later in the year.

What's the "wiggle worts"    Thanks for the Salmon scouting report Brian.

Sonny, it is a bass lure made by Storm Lures that works for salmon when trolled slow.  It is a good idea to change the rear hook to a larger stronger one for the extra size of the Salmon.

Sonny, it is a bass lure made by Storm Lures that works for salmon when trolled slow.  It is a good idea to change the rear hook to a larger stronger one for the extra size of the Salmon.

Coming from the Northwest ... the Wiggle Wart (and the Brad's Wigglers that replaced them) is a salmon lure made by Storm Lures that works for bass.

-Allen

The original WW made by Storm in the USA are the bomb, then Rapala bought Storm and stopped making them Brad's had them copied in China OK lures but not quite as heavy as the original. Rapala seeing that they missed the boat started making them again in China and marketing them as Bass lures. Much cheaper lure and I have had some breakage and they are harder to tune. I still have a box filled with the Old School WW but when fishing snaggy water I fish Brad's of Fatfish. Brad's has had some issue with the metallic paint peeling but still work great. They all put crap hooks on them and I change the splits and hooks  Owner Stinger 2x #4 black chrome hooks or singles with an extra split.