Irvine Lake Trip 1/16/09 Planting Photos and a Monster

[glumace]

Scroll down for the planting photos and a photo and movie of a monster plant.

Finally got out for our monthly trip to Irvine. It was a long week and was looking forward to getting out there. My cousin Jason, Jonathan, my friend Deepak and myself loaded up at 6am and headed down. The tournament is this weekend, so we decided on coming Friday to beat the crowds, which were light all day. Overall great day, caught 5 quality fish about 9-10lbs total string and lost 6 fish as well. Good mix on bait, hits on 4-5 colors and types of powerbait and on night crawlers. One thing we changed from last time was adding a little more weight to get out farther. 1/2 oz egg sinkers this time. We had more hits and fish then last time.

We tried a spot on the backside of trout island first but there was a strong wind coming in, so we moved down to the flats and where we fished the last time we came on 12/30. The winds were still coming on strong, so we moved a little more into the cove for some cover.

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Got the lines in the water and got our first hookup of the day about 20 minutes in. Nice size rainbow about 2.5-3#. Nice fight on my light rig, 4# test. It took the peach salmon egg powerbait.

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My son Jonathan got the big winner of the day. Nice rainbow about 3lbs or so. He's getting better all the time ;) Some great photos with Jason.

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My friend Deepak also caught his first rainbow. He had a great time, caught two fish today and lost a few.

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We ended up catching all of our fish on the day before 11:30 at the same spot. We were ready for lunch so we packed it up and headed over and got lunch at the tackle shop. We tried the lagoon for a little while with no luck and tried trout island with no luck either. So we decided to go back to where we started. Decided not to hike back to the same spot so pulled up in the curve and set up. Got some good hits and hooked up with something big but lost it in the weeds. Met some great people as well.

Pick of Sean (Me) and Jonathan

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It was around 3:30 and the stocking truck pulled up for the the weekend. My son and cousin went over and watched as they stocked. Looks like its going to be a great weekend for fishing. Some really big fish were planted as well.

Planting photos

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We were getting ready to pack up and go and a big, and I mean big planted rainbow came swimming by. I would guess in the 15# range, it was in really shallow water and working its way down the shore. We followed and took photos and video. Looks like it might be the winner this weekend.

Monster Rainbow

Video of the rainbow

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Overall great day of fishing, look forward to next month!

Final count

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One last picture

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[spitbreaker]

thanks for info
great catch out there

[KEL40]

Thanks for the info!! Great stringer maybe you can hook that monster trout next time. Glad to see you took your son and friend out to Irvine for some great fishing and memories!!

[Troutman65]

Hey guy, It would of been nice if you could of waited till Tuesday next week to post all your photo's and Video. :mad:

[one_leg]

It looks like we will be trolling in the back of the flats tomorrow!!!

Thanks for the report/pics.

Congrats on the fish.

[Marley]

Hey guy, It would of been nice if you could of waited till Tuesday next week to post all your photo's and Video. :mad:

Awe, c'mon Patrick. No one can tell that they planted the flats, too! Now, if you would kindly dump a load in Marley's Cove... Wait, that came out wrong...
Heck, see you Sunday!

[Sue]

Hey guy, It would of been nice if you could of waited till Tuesday next week to post all your photo's and Video. :mad:

Patrick! Play nice! You work at the lake........surely you want FNN members to know where to fish this weekend? After all, the stocking is supposed to be for the tournament!

We'll be on the SS Gatorboat, so you better swing by and say hello to us :D

[rcfb73]

Hey guy, It would of been nice if you could of waited till Tuesday next week to post all your photo's and Video. :mad:

im confused...it seems that you dont want people to come out and fish for the monster rainbows that were planted for this weekend...

[Mondo21]

It looks like we will be trolling in the back of the flats tomorrow!!!



Thanks for the report/pics.



Congrats on the fish.


And that's where you trolled today... and didn't get the monster.:Crying: Cindy

[Troutman65]

im confused...it seems that you dont want people to come out and fish for the monster rainbows that were planted for this weekend...


Sorry your confused rcfb73. I want everyone to come out and fish at the lake this weekend for the MLK Tourney. Don't put words in my mouth that I did not say or imply.

[one_leg]

And that's where you trolled today... and didn't get the monster.:Crying: Cindy


Well they might not have been huge, but I pulled two out of there.
We trolled a lot of places today, but the area we did miss was where the tourney winner came from. :Twisted: :Sad::LOL:

Cindy, I like your spot too.

[Mondo21]

Well they might not have been huge, but I pulled two out of there.
We trolled a lot of places today, but the area we did miss was where the tourney winner came from. :Twisted: :Sad::LOL:

Cindy, I like your spot too.

I did catch my limit for the 2nd. time since I've been going to the vine. That means I must be becoming a better angler.:ROFL: Cindy:Big Grin:

[Oz]

great report glumace. great picz by the way. always good to see the youngster catching fish so we can keep all this going.

patrick get over it...if they are gonna plant during lake hours and someone wants to take picz and post in there report putting the lake out there, than he can.

[Troutman65]

great report glumace. great picz by the way. always good to see the youngster catching fish so we can keep all this going.

patrick get over it...if they are gonna plant during lake hours and someone wants to take picz and post in there report putting the lake out there, than he can.

I am over it osiito. :Big Grin:

[Oz]

I am over it osiito. :Big Grin:

lollll okay patrick :Thumbs Up:

[MAVERICK27]

I can see where he is coming from though. The flats were way way more busy this time. Its not the members we worry about..its the 1,000 other people :) Turned out well anywya since Bob scared them all off with the boat. Might be whyy some were affraid to bite lol

[Hitts0n]

Good looking fish dude.great reports and thanks for having pics!:Cool:

[troutdog]

Nice report and pics, congrats on the fish....welcome to the board!


TD

[glumace]

Sorry bout that did not mean any harm. The kid loved watching the trout planted, and the big one swimming by. Glad the weekend went well for everyone.