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Redside
07-01-2009, 02:36 PM
Finally was able to take some time off this week, decided to hit up DVL on monday with my friend Cesar and my son Jim. We had planned on a couple of more people so we rented a pontoon boat, but it ended up just being the three of us.

We planned to target bass, based on all of the recent reports. We arrived just before the gate opened at 5:45 am and there were only about 6 cars in line. It turned out to be a wonderfully uncrowded day on the water.

I started off thowing topwater and gave it a good hour or so without any strikes. Cesar bagged the first bass at around 7:00 am:

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/Redside_2/IMG_5019.jpg

He caught it on a dropshot rig, 4" worm.

A little later, my son Jim scored:

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/Redside_2/IMG_5022.jpg

Also on a dropshot rig. In fact, all of the fish we caught were on the dropshot.

I finally caught one around 10:00 am:

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/Redside_2/IMG_5023.jpg

Overall, though, it was slower than I expected. The water was dead calm until around 11:00 am, which made controlling the boat easy but I think it made the fish less than cooperative. When the wind started, it blew pretty hard. So we then had to settle for fishing sheltered coves, just to maintain position.

And it got HOT when the cloud cover lifted.

Final tally, my son Jim was high man with 5, Cesar and I each had 2. We tried to head over to Rawson's cove around 3:00, but ran into some serious wind, which ripped the awning on the pontoon boat. Without the awning and the intense sun, we decided to call it quits.

Overall, it was a fun day, nice to get out on the water.

riverside_angler
07-01-2009, 08:05 PM
it's nice to see a new thread on the fishing there. seems like you guys did ok. i will be there tomorrow and hope to blow it wide open. I will let you all know what happens.

eddiefishtaco
07-01-2009, 10:25 PM
Cool report and pictures
I was there that day but only fished from 7 am to 9:30
saw a bunch of bass near weeds but I was eyeing the striper
I saw a big boil and by the time I got there the action was gone
Still, I got me one at 13 pounds, and went home after that

DCCTrouserTrout
07-02-2009, 07:03 AM
Sorry about the awning... Still looked like a fun day though...