Xtreme-Angling hit the waters of the Sacramento River once again this weekend.  We targeted Stripers for the first few hours then transitioned to the Shad. After launching an hour after 1st light, I ran up river from Verona to hit the waters that had previously been successful. We slow trolled minnows downstream with the current.  I was excited to test out some new Fenwick HMX rods which had just recently arrived at the house. It didn’t take long to get hooked up with a solid

Xtreme-Angling hit the water to give our new motor a test run and partial break-in this weekend, as well as test the current fishing conditions on the Sacramento River. We hit the water for a half day in the afternoon/evening on Friday May 2nd  to see what the river had in-store for us.. We ended up with 8 keeper stripers to the boat, and a few misses.  The good bite resulted in very consistent action. The majority of the fish were coming on live minnows rigged on a three way