Bass anglers on Lake Oroville struggled to find fish that wanted to bite over the weekend, according to Jim Spradlin at Oroville Outdoors. "There's not a whole lot going on", reported Spradlin. "The surface temperature shot up like a rocket, so the fish are suspended and staging to spawn.
"The few fish that are being caught are all on jigs or four to six-inch worms and tubes, there's no reaction bite at all. No large bass have been caught either, it's pretty much all slot-size fish.
"The coho salmon are going deeper, down around the 40-foot level. Most are running in the 13 to 16-inch range, and are hitting on live minnows and the trolled Koke-a-Nut/Slingblade combination. Best area for cohos has been the main body near the bridges and up the middle fork."
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