Trout-Tuna-For.Me
06-27-2012, 08:59 PM
The past two weeks I've made 2 trips to Brite Lake in Tehachapi and have done quite well catching some nice Alpers Rainbows up to 1.75 lbs.
With the water and daytime temps are getting warmer, best to fish either very early morning or late afternoon before dark.
I was mainly going fishing there to teach a wannabe trout fisherman, showing him the basics for bait fishing. I lent him one of my ultralight outfits with 4 lb test line and rigged it carolina rig with a slide sinker, barrel swivel, and 2 lb test leader with a size 16 treble hook. Using chartreuse glitter PB, his line got bit right away, but he missed it and reeled it in for new bait. I was using Salmon Peach PB and got bit right away too and ended up netting a nice 14 inch Alpers.
I ended up catching my limit in less than 2 hours and my buddy ended up with 2. Not bad for a newbie. We ended up leaving the lake by 9:00 with plenty of orange flesh Alpers rainbows for dinner.
If anyone wants some "not so far away" trout action, head up to Tehachapi. Not many people going there now since the opening of the Sierra season, so you'll see maybe 4 or 5 others fishing the lake.
TTFM
With the water and daytime temps are getting warmer, best to fish either very early morning or late afternoon before dark.
I was mainly going fishing there to teach a wannabe trout fisherman, showing him the basics for bait fishing. I lent him one of my ultralight outfits with 4 lb test line and rigged it carolina rig with a slide sinker, barrel swivel, and 2 lb test leader with a size 16 treble hook. Using chartreuse glitter PB, his line got bit right away, but he missed it and reeled it in for new bait. I was using Salmon Peach PB and got bit right away too and ended up netting a nice 14 inch Alpers.
I ended up catching my limit in less than 2 hours and my buddy ended up with 2. Not bad for a newbie. We ended up leaving the lake by 9:00 with plenty of orange flesh Alpers rainbows for dinner.
If anyone wants some "not so far away" trout action, head up to Tehachapi. Not many people going there now since the opening of the Sierra season, so you'll see maybe 4 or 5 others fishing the lake.
TTFM