Nacimiento Lake Spotted Bass

Fished Friday April 20th - Sunday April 22
Weather:  Major high pressure, Friday was 90 degrees, and so was Saturday.  Sunday was about 80 degrees.

Water: Clear in most areas, 66-72 degrees.

Fish:  Lots of spotted bass, they liked the plastics, shakey head or drop shot.  Also some soft jerk bait.  Major topwater action in the morning in the shade on rocky points.

Fish 2-20ft deep.

Had a great trip!

Lake Nacimiento Bass Fishing

Saturday, March 31, 2012

• Met up with Randy Dahl and Joe Burrows, and Brendon Gorman was on my boat
• Cloudy morning start
• Rain and wind from 11-3
• Fished Town Creek, Cal Shasta
• Warmest water 60, down to 58
• 8 fish for me
• 5 for Brendon
• Shakey head 7 zoom trick worm

Sunday, April 1, 2012

• 7am start, fished alone till 2pm
• Post front
• Water 58-59
• Windy
• Sunny
• Fished Town Creek
• 5 fish total
• Shakey head 7 zoom trick worm

Anderson Lake Bass and Crappie Fishing April 7 2012

Beautiful day, 74 degrees.
Water temperature started around 58 up to 61 in certain areas.
1 dink bass, 2 bass.  Shakey head/Drop Shot.  Heard west bank was good at mudline.
7 Crappie. Found a school and was awesome catching for 20 minutes then it kina turned off.  Used white crappie tube jig.

Pyramid Lake, March 3, 2012

Friday, March 2, 2012
I made the drive up to Pyramid Lake outside of Reno, Nevada.  After a few stops, I arrived around 12pm right behind Tom, Billy, Alby and Brett.  We got camp setup and started to try to fish.
The water level seemed pretty high, and after taking out my ladder at South Nets, I was still casting in around 3-5ft of water, which is too shallow.  So I figured I would get the boat out.  I found the drop from 5-10 ft and started fishing around the ledge in 10-12ft of water.  A few other guys got their float tubes out and fished.  By the end of the night, I think I had 2 fish.  Fishing was SLOW.  Water was right around 44 - 45 degrees.  We figure the fish are out deeper feeding on the tui chub and haven't made the move to the shallow water.  We were a bit 'early'.


Saturday, March 3, 2012
Woke up, no one was fishing at South Nets.  I took the boat out and was able to get a fish.  I moved out into a ledge at 23 to 28ft of water and landed another one.  If the fish were going to bite, they always bit right when I got to a spot, but then the bite tailed off.  Finally later in the afternoon I had an indicator fish.

Sunday, March 4, 2012
Same story, so we started fishing.  I had a fish early on then took a break for breakfast.  Upon going back out, I was able to get 2 more fish, and watched Billy catch 3 from his tube as well.  Alby finally got a fish, and Tom never was able to get one the whole trip.
I left pyramid at 130 and made it back to Danville by 545.  Decent amount of traffic on the 80.

Hopefully we can get back up there when the fishing turns on in the next month or two!


Below are some picture from the trip:

Anderson Lake, Bass Fishing, Feburary 4, 2012

Went down to Anderson Lake to go fishing again and brought Adele to captain the boat.

Fished form 11:30 to 4:30.
Water 52-53
Sunny, 67, slight breeze.

Started off at flat across the lake from the ramp, caught a trout on the second cast with a crawdad colored crankbait!  Couldn't believe it!  They haven't stocked Anderson Lake near Morgan Hill for quite some time, so I guess there are still some holdovers in there?

Didn't get another bite the rest of the day, tried shallow, tried some deeper stuff, tried points, just nothing was biting on the dropshot and shakey head. Switched from a worm to a Yum craw thing on the shakey head.

Talked to some guy at the ramp, he seemed to have found them, said to look for the underwater humps, and they were still deep.  It's like why fish in 5ft of water when most fish are 30ft deep? I think he said he was using green hula on a football head jig or something?

Finally picked up a trolling motor Sunday, Feb 5.  Minn Kota Maxxum.  We'll see how she mounts up on the boat.

Bass Fishing at Anderson Lake

Went out fishing with Jon yesterday, the 28th, for a few hours.

Time: 12-5pm
Water Temp: 53-54
Water level: pretty low, island by ramp showing 5-10ft out of water
Weather: Pretty sunny, 65 degrees.  Pretty stable barometer.
Fish: 2 fish to boat.  Few other bites.  Fish came in around 10-15 ft of water.  Both on the Aarons Magic Robo worm dropshotting.  Had a shakey head as the weight.

See pictures, including low water features here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryan805/sets/72157629075676409/

Fall Fishing Trip 2011 - Eastern Sierras

Well, another fall Mammoth trip in the books.  This year was Dad, Tom, Tim and Robbie.  Gary and Mike weren't able to make it.

Most of the boys arrived Thursday night, I came in Friday.  A big storm had just pushed through the Sierra's, so there was a ton of snow, and Tioga was closed.  I took the 50 through South Lake Tahoe, then down the 395.  It was a great drive.

(above)I love that Walker River canyon!

(above)Bridgeport looking west

(above) Ken's Sporting Goods

(above) Nice little brown out of McGee East of 395

Finally got on Crowley around 4pm.  On porta boat with Dad, Tom in tube, Tim and Robbie on Boat. Weather: The previous couple days, we had some nasty wind and almost 12" of snow.  BAD weather.  Friday was the first day it was semi clear after the big storm. The high of the day may have been 48 or low 50's.  There was a decent chop of wind on the water, and a few random clouds in the sky. Started getting bites pretty quick after launch. quite a few small feisty rainbows. I was trolling a single grey punk perch, and my dad was trolling a black wooly bugger. Everyone was getting some smaller rainbows.  We were in the north arm, but not parked on the point by the marshy cove where everyone normally parks.  I coudln't believe it that they were float tubing in the little cove.  The water was exceptionally high.  Normally it's completely dry.  Finally, around 630 - 7pm, the sun was almost set, and I hooked into a real nice brown.  22" on the grey punk perch.

(above) Nice brown! 22"

(above)Can't beat the view from Crowley

(above) Full finned crowley rainbow!

Day 2, October 8, 2011

Got launched on the lake around 1030am.  Same story.  Weather today was nicer, slightly warmer, and little wind.  No clouds in the sky at all.  Right after launch, we started getting bites again on the fiesty rainbows.  wind never came up too bad.  tom caught a nice rainbow and brown that day.  i feel in general the fishing was slow.  We tried midging for about an hour because it was so weedy and so much algae for trolling.  Dad had almost 4 take downs in an hour, and landed a small rainbow.  I think I maybe only had one take down.  Tom ended the day early, but Dad and I stayed.  We trolled for some time, and right near dark, I finally hooked into a decent brown on the white punk perch.  We moved closer to shore where fish were rising on the surface in some glass.  We headed over that way and threw the nymph rigs out briefly.  We wanted to inch closer, so I just slowly trolled my indicator rod in, and my indicator went down.  HUGE brown on my 4wt fly rod.  Top fly was some purple emerger, bottom was a zebra broke back midge.  It took over ten minutes to land this pig, but we got em and loaded up in near dark.

(above) Fat Crowley Perch (accidental catch)

(above) Nice brownie

(above) Fighting a fish

(above) Nice brown on the grey punk perch

(above) Bend that 4wt!!

(above) Big daddy on a broken back midge right at dark on the 4wt!

Day 3, October 9, 2011

Today started around 10am and lots of algae bloom in the north end.  We had to go out towards the middle to find any remotely semi clear water.  Some small rainbows, but again, a SLOW day.  I had 2 pigs hook up while trolling, but both came unbuttoned.  Pretty bummed.  Tom had a nice brown again.  Dad left around 2pm, and Tom and I went on the Crestliner with Tim and Robbie because the wind came up to whitecaps, so it was too rough for the porta-boat.  We caught 2 nice female browns, and a small rainbow while trolling till around 6pm.  There were still some white caps out there.

(above) Tom with another nice brown

(above) Troll fish, nice brown from Tim

We left the next day and had a rainy cold drive through Tioga Pass.  We stopped off at the ranch which was a nice half way point to spend the night.  

TOP FLY: WHITE/GREY LARGE Punk Perch

Honorable mentions: Black wooly bugger, olive punk perch.

Hardly any midging this trip, all strip fish!  Overall a bit slow fishing with some bad algae.  

We plan on going again next year, this time not on a full moon!