I took Bill and John striper fishing today below Red Bluff.  Our quarry was nowhere to be found, but we did have some interesting shad fishing.  I was surprised to see shad still in the river in late July.  There are thousands of them still in the Red Bluff area.  We landed a couple, including Bill's first ever shad.  I also landed a pristine 20" wild rainbow trout on a shad fly on 12# maxima.  On the retrieve!