2022 STRIPED BASS FISHING TRIPS- It’s time to take a look at the upcoming 2022 Sacramento River Striped Bass season which begins for us in early April. Many factors play a role in when and where we run our guided fishing trips for Stripers, but in general, its relatively predictable and most years, we offer a short 6 week season fishing out of the Colusa, Ca. area.
Above average size Striped bass, but we get em much larger than this every season!
Striped bass are one of the hardest fighting sport fish in The Sacramento/San Joaquin River system, and their table fare is excellent! Striper fishing is generally very good and with good flows of turbid river water, the fishing can be excellent! The more water we have during our spring flows/releases, the more Stripers we will have in the Colusa area. Year after year we have good returns, but during high water years, we will have more fish than we will during the low flows of a dry spring. We’ll catch Stripers either way, but its always nice to experience those automatic limits of fresh Striped bass during the many trips we run every spring.
Limits of Striped bass for this group last April!
Fishing is relatively easy due to the sheer numbers of Striper schools that come up river every spring to spawn. We typically power drift live bait, but sometimes we will be anchored up in the trees or along the current seams fishing chunk bait (Sardines) close to the boat. Very little to no experience is required for our clients to be successful when fishing for Striped bass. Feeding line off the reels until we tick bottom is the most challenging thing our customers will have to, that is until their bait gets grabbed aggressively by a hot Striper! Long, line peeling runs by big Stripers followed by numerous runs from the boat before landing them is commonplace in this fishery. Just like river King salmon, Striped bass can wear you out while trying to get them to the net! It’s so much fun!
Captain Brady with an average size Sac River Striper!
Colusa is a short drive from Sacramento and accommodations are fairly abundant during the spring Striper season. Most of our clients either stay at the Colusa Casino or stay in Williams at one of several hotels they have there. The Colusa Casino has free RV parking and several of our groups choose to stay there every year. Due to the high cost to run these trips, we require a 4 person minimum to book each boat. Each boat can accommodate 6 anglers, but like always, our trips are private. We don’t sell seats so you’ll never be fishing with strangers, we don’t mix our groups. The 4 person minimum ensures that we will be able to continue to book all of our trips privately. Our trips will sell out before the season begins in April so booking early is recommended, especially for our returning clients. Please contact Jaynie and she can provide any additional details about our trips or she can get your day of Striper fishing reserved with one of our guides. Thank you!
- Captain Jeff Goodwin
