Back at Lome on Monday
California Fishing
Apr 12, 2023 03:58:51 #
We hit the water around 8:00am. You really couldn't have asked for any nicer of a day zero wind clear skies. Though the draw back of this great weather we've been having. Is the rise in water temperature, the surface temp was 62° when I got there and 67° when I got off the water. Most of the boaters and the guys on the yacks had all pulled out of there by noon. If this weather keeps up it looks like trout season may be coming to an end early this year. Fishing was tough, I tried everything just short of just dumping my tackle box over the side. I missed a couple of bites. But I was able to land a couple nice trout once I decide to switch over and just troll for the rest of the day. The 1st trout was 4lb5oz top lining a wooly bugger behind a dodger. The 2nd trout was 4lb9oz 22' down off the downrigger while pulling flasher with a nightcrawler.
Apr 12, 2023 07:43:03 #
Apr 12, 2023 08:14:34 #
4tfive7t wrote:
We hit the water around 8:00am. You really couldn'... (show quote)
Good morning, five, those are very nice trout. Good job!
Apr 12, 2023 12:03:40 #
Apr 13, 2023 13:12:17 #
4tfive7t wrote:
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Way to figure it out 45, nice big ones!
Apr 13, 2023 13:38:51 #
Sometimes you can get lucky by just showing them something different. By going old school on them.
Apr 13, 2023 13:44:05 #
Apr 13, 2023 13:46:25 #
They were pretty chubby. But they must have come from the farm that way their bellies were empty.
Apr 13, 2023 13:50:59 #
I was running out of Ideas. And just that morning before hitting the road. I was going through some old stuff and ran across a couple of old wooly buggers and just tossed them in my pocket. I'm glad I did.
Apr 13, 2023 14:08:07 #
Apr 13, 2023 15:49:39 #
Thanks every now and then a blind squirrel finds a nut I got lucky and I found 2 nuts on this day
Apr 14, 2023 08:22:15 #
Snaggletooth one and only
Loc: Novato, CA
Way to go with the flies and crawlers. I love my wooly buggers, but on my fly rod. Going to try trolling them next time. Very nice trout
Apr 15, 2023 10:43:41 #
Thanks Snaggletooth Yeah years ago I used to do pretty good pulling buggers behind a dodger. Not sure why I stopped but it's back in the lineup. I've got a few old inch to a inch and a half pearl wobblers I haven't used in probably just as long or longer. I've done well with in the past. I'm thinking about throwing a couple in the box. The trout season here is coming to an end, we got maybe a month or so left if that. I think it's time to go old school and change things up a little. And start showing them something different.
Apr 15, 2023 12:11:31 #
Snaggletooth one and only
Loc: Novato, CA
Being in the San Francisco Bay area trout fishing can be year round. All the lakes and reservoirs . Also have the sierra mountains. Lots of rivers. Going to buy some more wooly buggers for mine are looking pretty beat up. Can't fish right now ,wife has a leakiy heart and waiting for the Doctor to see her. Just sticking around. Well thank you for sharing,diffinitly going to try it out.
Apr 16, 2023 14:48:37 #
I'm in the East Bay and I was and mostly just talk about my nextdoor backyard little resivior Conta Loma, the parks only 780 acres with around 77 acres of surface water. It's a great place for walkers also it's pretty flat no big hills. You can walk around it, in less than an hour, it's only a 1.6 mile walk it's great for walker fisherman stop and hit spot throw a couple of cast and carry on with their walk. I can be there in a few minutes. Any place else for me I'm looking at a hour, hour plus drive for trout. I do like Lake Amador that's a great place for lake trout with their 10+ lb trout plants. And with the monster Blue's and Channel cats they have there also. I went out to Loma yester for a couple of hours. I was only able to land a 1.5 trout off a tossed Kastmaster. And missed a few other bites here and there, water temp was 64°. These were taken from out the middle of the res. One looking forward and the other one looking back.
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