Trout Opener 2010/2011 one for the record books!

[VineAssist]

Today was the Opening day for our 2010/2011 Trout Season and if today was one for the record books. The some 500 anglers that showed up to the lake today where greeted with wide open style fishing! It did not mattter if you where trolling or bait fishing. Trollers where getting them on the Bubblegum SC Shiner and CD 03 and CD 05 Rapals. While the bait dunkers where getting them on nightcrawlers, Garlic Yellow Powerbait, Garlic Chrt Powerbait, Salmon Egg Red Powerbait, and of course the gulp doughs.
And here are the pictures from today. And there are a lot of them.
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Aaron Garcia of Santa Ana put the Bite On Garlic to work in the form of this 6.9 Rainbow taken from boat dock cove.
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Kevin Banning and freinds weigh in this huge stringer!
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Zach St German, David St German and Jenn Nguyen of Yorba Linda weigh in this 15 fish 49.1 limit taken while trolling SC Shiners and Rapalas.
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JT Crabbe of Mission Veijo caught his 19.5 lb limit also while trolling SC Shiners in the Bubblegum color.
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The O'Leary clan and Greg Sowers cleaned house while trolling Rapla firetigers. Their 20 fish limit went 58lbs+.
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Boo Boo O Leary weighs in a 7.6 kicker fish to the above limit.
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Gary Boldin and Steve Brown check in this quality limit taken on Thomas Bouyants. Gary's kicker fish went 6.6 lbs.
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more smiling faces.
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and more
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and more
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The lagoon was spitting fish out at a consistant pace as well.
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Jake Douglas of El Segundo was a big winner today when he bought a pack of the Glow Green Nightcrawlers in the new Earthsmart containers he was entered into the drawing for an ipod shuffle. Well he won. I swear i saw the dust trail behind him as he ran up to shop to claim his prize.
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Lake regular Reggie checked in this 3.0lb Brown at the last minute.

Sorry if I left some pictures out guys we literally filled our camera with pictures today. Today was insanely epic for a lot of people. Hope to see the folks tomrrow. Gotta go and get some rest now!
Jimmy

[SD Pirate]

I hope there's some fish left for Sunday!! :)

[the killa fish taco]

thanks for the pix..... great way to start the season....

[VineAssist]

Well folks the first official Double Digit Trout of the season was weighed in today!!!!!!!!! Chris "Maverick" Mason of Irvine bested this beast while fishing a shad colored crankbait. No word on wheter or not he was trolling or casting.
Here it is the first double digit an 11.6!
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Mike Meredith of the Intrepid Sportboat out of San Diego came out to fish and recover from a horific incident and boated huge limits both days. Here he is pictured with One_ Leg ( Alan Rudd), Isabelle Hilbert, and Gilbert Hillbert. This limit went 24.8 and was pulled from the West Shore and Trout Island.
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Ian Stewert of Ventura put the Bubbelgum SC Shiner to work on this 6.4 Rainbow.
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Tom Flores of Whitter fished the west shore with a nightcrawler for this 5.12
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[the killa fish taco]

congrats chris...... the bar has been set!!!!!

[El Capo]

Way to go Chris, I must have missed you today. Congrats on that beast.

[Angler Dan]

Nice fish, Maverick!

[MAVERICK27]

Thanks Jimmy! The final word was casting that crank bait by the tubes in the lagoon road by the new mooring docks. Thanks guys, I guess Christmas came early for me this year.

[Hook, Line & Sinker]

Fix the pics so they can be seen PLZ

[VineAssist]

workin on it. Stupid photobucket