Legacyz
05-11-2010, 04:15 PM
First Fishing Report....hope you guys like it, any tips would be appreciated.
After going to Irvine lake for their 1/2 price yesterday, I was feeling very unsatisfied. Asked my roommate if he wanted to go check out Santa Ana Lake and before you know it, we were off. We left the house about 11:00 AM. (Yea...it was pretty late already) and after getting food, we arrived at about 12:00 PM.
There was actually a lot of people there, there was at least 6 group of people where we decided to fish (toward the opposite side of the boating dock) and no one was having any luck. The weather today was fairly warm but not as hot as the other times I went to SAL.
Decided to try some inflated Night Crawlers while my roommate was using some power-bait. After 10 minutes casting it off my line jumped and I got a bite! I was really happy considering this is the first fish I ever caught in Santa Ana. My roommate decided to video tape it with the camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJ64YJMYLo
It was a bit small so I released it back into the lake. Stayed there until 3 but didn't get a bite after that. I saw someone fighting at least a 10LB from the other side of the shore, his friend dove in after it but the line finally snapped after 10 mins of fighting it. Anyways, I hope everyone else is having better luck there!
After going to Irvine lake for their 1/2 price yesterday, I was feeling very unsatisfied. Asked my roommate if he wanted to go check out Santa Ana Lake and before you know it, we were off. We left the house about 11:00 AM. (Yea...it was pretty late already) and after getting food, we arrived at about 12:00 PM.
There was actually a lot of people there, there was at least 6 group of people where we decided to fish (toward the opposite side of the boating dock) and no one was having any luck. The weather today was fairly warm but not as hot as the other times I went to SAL.
Decided to try some inflated Night Crawlers while my roommate was using some power-bait. After 10 minutes casting it off my line jumped and I got a bite! I was really happy considering this is the first fish I ever caught in Santa Ana. My roommate decided to video tape it with the camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJ64YJMYLo
It was a bit small so I released it back into the lake. Stayed there until 3 but didn't get a bite after that. I saw someone fighting at least a 10LB from the other side of the shore, his friend dove in after it but the line finally snapped after 10 mins of fighting it. Anyways, I hope everyone else is having better luck there!