With a slight dial-back of the Feather River's releases, local guide Kevin Brock is planning to hit the water hard in pursuit of the spring striper run. "The flows are getting down into the manageable level, and stripers are already being caught this week", enthused Brock.

"Lots of school-size keepers are biting on cut bait like sardines, anchovies, and pile worms in the area near Shanghai Bend. There are probably no monsters yet, but a 10-pound striper is still a nice fish. More of the big ones will push up as the water level continues to drop, and a few incidental sturgeon are always possible when fishing with cut bait.With a slight dial-back of the Feather River's releases, local guide Kevin Brock is planning to hit the water hard in pursuit of the spring striper run.

"Trollers are also going to score some fish using chartreuse P-Line Predator Deep-Divers, either with or without a plastic worm trailer. A good color for the plastic worm trailer is black; the white color worms are more for down in the Delta. These can be trolled either upstream or downstream, and I prefer 50-pound braided line for trolling. It's a little too early in the year for topwater baits.

"Every day the bite on the Feather gets better; there are lots of fish coming up from the Delta. I think it will be a very good striper year, just like last year. We might even get some fish in the Sacramento all the way up to Chico. Brock added, "There is no news on exactly when the Sacramento might be fishable. It might possibly be ready in a week or so, but the fish are biting on the Feather now!"