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srsnow
05-04-2010, 06:04 PM
Started out planning on going out to Cahuilla but got there and I guess they are closed during the week now. So decided to try a place I used to go with my dad like 20 years ago, Johnson Street canal but it looks unfishable now. I had heard you could still fish there but if so I don't know what part. So we headed out to a part of the canal by Mecca just so we could make a few casts. After eing there about 10 mins a couple of guys come up in there truck and start asking what kind of fish were in there. After chatting for a bit and telling them our trouble finding a place to fish they invited us back to a private lake in a little community in the La Quinta cove. Turned out to be a fun little lake tons of blue gill and a few bass, we just caught bluegill though. Turned out to be a pretty fun day after all. If anyone has any tips on where to fish in the desert I would appreciate itm the place has changed so much since I last lived down here. A few pics;

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/srsnow/LaQuinta5-04-10010.jpg
tons of these little guys around

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/srsnow/LaQuinta5-04-10022.jpg
My buddy with one of the little bait stealing bastards

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n22/srsnow/LaQuinta5-04-10015.jpg
but if you could get you bait past the little ones there were some nice ones hiding in there too

BrandonFish
05-04-2010, 06:08 PM
piiiig bluegill! i love the way those pigs fight it amazes me every time i hook into one. must be like 100 blue gill right there lol

Katnip
05-04-2010, 11:23 PM
Wow, you got a nice bait spot there . Which desert you looking to fish?

Fishbones
05-04-2010, 11:30 PM
cool report, nice big gill,....weather looks good, cant complain a bit.

srsnow
05-05-2010, 12:29 AM
Wow, you got a nice bait spot there . Which desert you looking to fish?

I am down in the Coachella Valley

crappie stalker
05-09-2010, 12:42 PM
That was a lot of gills schooling in that pic.. Nice pig gill in the second pic...

fullstringer
05-09-2010, 12:55 PM
that big tree behind you holds some nice bass cranks, plastics anyway out here in the cv not much.Lake Hemet, canals or the river.


Joe