Irvine Lake Trout Opener 11-6-09 Johnsfishing and his Dad start off the Trout Season.

[johnsfishing]

My Dad and I started off the Trout Season by attending the 2009 Irvine Lake Trout Opener! Left our house at around 5am arriving at around 5:30am. We pull into the parking area to find Timster directing us to the back RV storage area due to the parking lot being packed to capacity..
It was good seeing you Tim! Thanks for volunteering, its always good talking with you.

Here is the parking lot after 2 lines already went thru the gate....

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The whole parking lot was full to capacity with everyone ready to catch TROUT!

The gates opened at 6am with Whitney and Nick working as fast as they could. We were in the gate by 7am and launched by 7:10am.

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My Dad and I decided to Troll. We made a pass down the west shore, across the dam and over to Sierra Cove.

On our way around the lake we passed the amphibious car!

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We started getting hooked up and we stayed on a very consistent bite!!!

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They honestly hit just about everything we threw out but the Thomas Buoyant ended up being the "big ticket".

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7lb 10oz Trolling Mid Lake with a Thomas Buoyant.

Here is my Dad with one more...

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After landing our big fish and finishing off our first limits we headed up to the tackle shop to grab some lunch and purchase a second limit pass for both of us. While my Dad was up at the shop I decided to stay with the boat. My Dad Glenn told the lake staff that we had landed a 7lb Trout!

Next thing I see is Jimmy and another man coming down from the tackle shop to my boat. Jimmy then introduces Jim the Western Outdoor News photographer to me and asks to take a few pictures!!! He also took down my info and told me to look threw the Western Outdoor News this week!!!! This was a really awesome part of the day and I was really excited. After Jimmy and Jim left Im sitting there on the boat waiting for my Dad and every so often I say out loud to myself, "Ya, YES!!" I was so stoked!!

I spoke with my Dad over the phone and about 10 minutes has gone by. I then see Jimmy and another man coming down from the tackle shop towards my boat again! Jimmy introduces Steve Carson to me and the first thing he says to me is, "You're Johnsfishing?" and I say, "Yes I am", then he says "Well your a celebrity!" It was a cool experience, and Steve took a few pictures and took down my info.

After talking with the guys my Dad and I went out in search of our second limits. A short 2 hrs goes by and we boated another 10 fish with the occasional fish being farmed.

We had told Jimmy that if we got our second limits that we would be at the tackle shop at the end of the day, so at the end of the day we asked Jimmy if he could snap a pic or two.

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7lbs 10oz, 26 inches.

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My Dad and I each with double limits, 10 each.

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The big one filleted and packaged!



Extra Photo to sum up the day!

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This Trout Opener was amazing! Thank you to everyone who made this all possible. Good Fishing to everyone at Irvine Lake.

johnsfishing

[TroutOnly]

MAN JOHN YOU AND POP TORE IT UP, GREAT WORK ON THE TROUT,,,,,,,,,,t/o

[Mr Bendo]

Nice work John.

[troutdog]

Simply put....OUTSTANDING!!!!

Congrats to "Team John'sFishing" :Thumbs Up:


TD

[Hitts0n]

LOOKING great out there John ! I will be out there soon for some action !

Revenge of the Hitth_Lord!!

I will own ! Congrats J0hnz0wning!:Cool:

[Prowler_Tuber]

I saw you guys out there I was in the blue float tube killing them as well, it took forever to clean them

[Angler Dan]

Nice job to both of you.

[primo55]

Great job guys,gotta love the fillet pic!

[Troutman65]

Johnsfishing, Great job on the whopper trout on the Opener. You and your Dad sure have put in the time on the lake . Thanks for the post and see you guys soon.:Cool:

[doctorhook]

Congrats to the Team of John'sFishing.

Excellant job on those trout fillets.

Doctorhook

[Big Daddy]

John that is a great looking fish congrats (also great job on the net Dad) and great job on a double limit.enjoyed the great job on the post as usual.

[Sue]

Great report John! Glad to see you got a big one!

[MAVERICK27]

Congrats bud!! Talk about being at the right place and time all day :) I'm happy for you. Way to represent Team 57!

[johnsfishing]

Thanks for the replies so far everyone. I will make individual replies later on.


johnsfishing

[Fisherman57]

SWEET!

A double limit for you both! Awesome!
Nice work John & Glenn!



57

[dfisher]

Very nice, do you know how the shore fishing went?

Plan on going this weekend!

Good job.

[johnsfishing]

http://www.wonews.com/t-SCFreshReport_onthespot_schweit_110909.aspx

Western Outdoor News Article!!!!!!

johnsfishing

[Big Daddy]

Nice job john in the WON. Congrats.

[sandtrout]

did you use one of those electric knives or just a regular fillet knife/

[johnsfishing]

Western Outdoor News Article!!!

http://www.wonews.com/t-SCFreshRepor...it_110909.aspx

My 7lb 2oz Rainbow Trout officially weighed later as 7lbs 10z, made this weeks Western Outdoor News.


TroutOnly- Bob! As always, thanks for the reply!!! You should fish Irvine sometime so we can tag team the Trout.

Mr Bendo- Thanks!

Troutdog- Aaron, Thank You!

Hitts0n- Thanks man, good luck out there when you go! thanks for the reply.

Prowler Tuber- cool! good to hear you did well! It did take a while to clean them up.

Angler Dan- Thanks! We appreciate it!

primo55- Thanks. thats why I put it up :LOL:

Troutman65- Thanks Patrick! We have been out to Irvine quite a bit and we are looking forward to more days like this. See ya out there.

doctorhook- Thanks Art! Hope to see you out at the lake soon!

Big Daddy- thank you very much! :Cool:

Sue- thanks Sue!

MAVERICK27- thanks man! It was on fire out there! Go Team 57!

Fisherman57- Dana, thank you for the reply!!!

dfisher- thanks, the shore fishing was pretty good from what I saw, you could do well.

Big Daddy- Thanks for the reply once again!!!

sandtrout- regular fillet knives. got to keep them sharp!



thanks for reading everyone!!

johnsfishing

[BigBass777]

You gotta be feeling really good catching the biggest fish of the packed opener. Let alone getting the picture in Western Outdoors News. Way to go! It's not easy to do.

[pasadenafishin]

Nice fish and report :) Ive noticed it on all of your reports and have been meaning to ask you, how did you set up those rod holders on your boat?

[johnsfishing]

BigBass777- wow! thank you for the well thought reply. I appreciate it!! thanks.

pasadenafishin- thanks man. The red coil rod holders are being held by small U shaped clamps we got off of barrel latches. Its hard to explain but basically there are 2 srews on each side of the clamp and then the rod holder slips right into the opening.


johnsfishing

[bassaholic90]

great job way to kill some trout