I went to Bass Lake to participate in the trout derby. The derby is held annually. On Saturday we caught 6 hatchery trout trolling Macs wedding, ring, classic behind Dick’s mountain tackle flasher. On Sunday, we only got one on the boat, the bite, totally shut down, but my grandson was able to catch a fish, which was great!
Do Ya know if there were any tagged fish caught? My Buddy and I were on the lake around 4:45/5:00 a.m not knowing there was a trout derby, by 8:30 or so it became evident that there was something out of the ordinary. If I ever wondered where all the Sunday driver's were on a Saturday... I now know they're on the lake. It was evident there's no seriousness in most of the participants just from the action at the ramp... We waited 45 min just to get outta the water... one Guy's boat wouldn't start from a dead battery but He summed it up quickly when He said "I don't get it, it ran fine last year when I took it out".... not to be outdone the Guy blocking the other side of the ramp looked at Us with "the guy I get it from he tell me it run good"....
With everything going on I was curious if there were any tagged fish taken, from what I found on the interweb there was a $10K fish caught last year so I understand where the hype comes from...
I heard that there were some tagged fish caught however, the odd thing they were plenty of hatchery fish caught on Saturday, but not many tagged.One guy caught 17 fish and only one was tagged. I think a lot of people were turned off by the fact they were catching hatchery fish that were not tagged. I thought there would be more people fishing on Sunday.
27 years ago ore somewhere close to this was the first Coors beer tournament. The first year they planted brooders. The smallest fish was 3 pounds up to 10 me and my wife lived at bass lake.for the first few days the fish were not acclimated we fished at the falls for the next month we killed them great time my best 8.7 lbs my wife’s 9.3lbs all tag fish some numbers were wort 10 dollars to 100 dollars we maid 400 hundred dollars in one month we fished 6:30to 9:30 every morning and430 too dark every night at falls there a set of old steps the creak dumps in right there you might have to cast two or three times but pretty soon. It’ll look like your line is going upstream. There is a giant hole underneath that stream my wife had this down to a science because my grandfather showed me nightcrawler tip of salmon eggs 10 foot cast your lion would look like it’s going upstream but you’re in the hole. She caught three fish all over 5 pounds in 30 minutes with these people watching this guy Crowder out pissed her off. And we left came back at our usual time in the afternoon. They had been there all day caught one fish, lost it he was in my wife spot. I could see it on her face. She went down climb. The rail nudged him out of the hole casted one time her line went up. She had a fish within two minutes here I come with the net pissed them off. They had been there all day, not catch nothing. She was rubbing it in so bad tell them they didn’t know how to fish I thought I was going to be in a fistfight. Last quick story about the balls same day we’re walking out with five fish over 5 pounds as we’re walking across the bridge a guy in a Volkswagen went to pass is he looked at the fish and crashed into the bridge PS the bass fishing is probably off the hook up in the spillway. You have to walk it though.
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