Spring Trout Fishing is on Fire 4/23

[VineAssist]

Lots of quality fish and tons of limits are still the norm up here at the lake as we head into the last week of April. Trollers and bait guys continue to hammer the fish in locations such as the West Shore, Dam area, woodys cove and boat dock cove. Guys fishing from the shore have had success casting up close to shore during the am hours and casting out further as the day progresses with the New Mice Tails from Berkley and Garlic Chrt Powerbait being the hot baits. Trollers are finding their quarry keyed in on the shad so keep an eye out on the surface for the bait fish or watch your sonar to get on the fish.

Leading the way today with a beautiful 10.0 Rainbow Trout was non-other than Mike Traut (prononuced Trout) of Costa Mesa. Mike's trophy bow bit a River 2 Sea V joint minnow while trolling mid lake.
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Not only did Mike have one trophy but he had four more quality fish to go with it.
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Paul Minter of Riverside allmost cracked the 10lb mark with this 9.8 Rainbow Trout that took a trolled Rapala along the West Shore.
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Galen Souza of Placentia also took advantage of the troll bite and filled his 5 fish limit while trollig the West Shore. Galen was trolling a Rapala lure as well.
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Fishing is still very good for Trout, Bass, Crappie and Catfish. Come out the the lake and experince Spring time Fishing at its finest. I will put out a post on the budding Catfish bite tommrow. Hope to see all you guys and gals up at the lake really soon
Jimmy

[diamondbear]

HOWS THE WATER TEMP. , Still 52 Deg. ?

[bman90278]

hows the water temp. , still 52 deg. ?

lol..................................

[FISHJUNKIE4446]

Can we get a H2o temp ?

[VineAssist]

Ok guys I saw the earlier post.......and have teased both of them enough allready!

The water temperature is hovering in the 68-72 range..

Sorry for the mistake in the temps.

[bman90278]

Ok guys I saw the earlier post.......and have teased both of them enough allready!

The water temperature is hovering in the 68-72 range..

Sorry for the mistake in the temps.

Come on Vine! Where's your Easter Humor? :)

Brian

[karalm]

Vineassist,
When will the yellow buoys in santiago flats come down so we can fish the creek area??

[VineAssist]

The Flats reopened on Sunday. It is now open again.

[Hitts0n]

tHATS WHERE ALL THE FISH WERE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ,IN THE FLATS! LMAO !!

[the killa fish taco]

i tubed yesterday, starting at the front ramp. worked y way to woody's to the westshore to Trout Island and back to the ramp and woodys. Ended up with 1 crappie! Threw everything from powermouses, nightcrawlers, powerbait, Drop shot, SPlit Shot, Crappie jigs! Hopefully the Masters Event is better than yesterday.

[snslarison]

My dad and I were there yesterday too fishing from a boat and we both got the skunk. (First skunk of the year at Irvine)

I think the water being as warm as it is is shutting the trout down. I threw everything but the kitchen sink at them. Nada, not even a bite. Pretty tough out there.