Matt_Magnone
08-01-2013, 08:16 PM
finally was able to get back on the lake after what seemed like an eternity. didnt really care how the fishing was as i've heard enough people tell me to "stay home", "go to perris!" or "dont waste your time". it was more of a day just to get re-acquainted with the lake at the current water level. been almost 2 months since i was out there last (excluding night events)
fishing was actually A LOT better than how people have been describing it to me. i was expecting a dead sea.
right off the bat i was able to figure some key pieces to the puzzle.
plethora of silversides throughout the lake. north, south, east and west. primarily on wind blown cuts and coves.
bluegill up tight to the bank
wolfpacks of bass between 7" & 3 pounds at every stopping spot
BINGO! stay high and tight to the bank and cover water.
didnt turn the graphs on so i have no idea how warm the water was, but with the amount of bait and forage fish up tight to the bank, there was no reason to go offshore. or go deeper than the color change. caught some swimbait fish early on the gan craft (2-3 pounds) and bounced around with that till 8 or so. had a TON of followers and a good amount of short biters. enough to definitely get me to commit to it the the whole day if thats all i wanted to do.
around 9 i picked up one of my co workers, anthony, from the shore and we went to take advantage of some fly fishing since the amount of bass up on the bank was so great. stuck a lot of 7-13" fish using #6 olive wooly buggers and one fish on an umpqua pole dancer fly. gave it about 2 hours and said screw it.
abandoned that jive to get back on the swimmer fish. ran the lake with a fish here and there until about 1 when the wind started doing its thing. bingo. fish lit up. followers started turning into biters. bounced around between the gan craft, s waver, cl8 bait clacker, decoy swimbait and triple trout. ran with that bite til the lake closed. as the wind got heavier pushing the bait into the backs of coves the bite got better.
made one cast with the fluke and i don't know if it was a "fluke" but got blown up and tree'd by a descent fish. broke it off and was too lazy to retie so went back to the swimmer. you may want to look into that bite.
the key to our bite today was to locate bait in relationship with sparse brush, in or near a mudline. as long as you could find the bait it was a fish or two from every key spot. run those spots throughout the day giving each time to rest and it was pretty good. match the hatch as far as bait selection and you're good. caught them on everything from baitfish, baby bass and bluegill imitations. had our opportunites at some quality fish but you know how that goes. average fish was in the 2.5-3 pound range. didnt have a big fish as the majority were clones.
ended up with 15 fish on the swimmer and a bunch of little bass on the fly. very fun day on the water.
metered some stuff for grins and saw fish holding in 30' on outside structure.
hope this helps guys!
-matt
fishing was actually A LOT better than how people have been describing it to me. i was expecting a dead sea.
right off the bat i was able to figure some key pieces to the puzzle.
plethora of silversides throughout the lake. north, south, east and west. primarily on wind blown cuts and coves.
bluegill up tight to the bank
wolfpacks of bass between 7" & 3 pounds at every stopping spot
BINGO! stay high and tight to the bank and cover water.
didnt turn the graphs on so i have no idea how warm the water was, but with the amount of bait and forage fish up tight to the bank, there was no reason to go offshore. or go deeper than the color change. caught some swimbait fish early on the gan craft (2-3 pounds) and bounced around with that till 8 or so. had a TON of followers and a good amount of short biters. enough to definitely get me to commit to it the the whole day if thats all i wanted to do.
around 9 i picked up one of my co workers, anthony, from the shore and we went to take advantage of some fly fishing since the amount of bass up on the bank was so great. stuck a lot of 7-13" fish using #6 olive wooly buggers and one fish on an umpqua pole dancer fly. gave it about 2 hours and said screw it.
abandoned that jive to get back on the swimmer fish. ran the lake with a fish here and there until about 1 when the wind started doing its thing. bingo. fish lit up. followers started turning into biters. bounced around between the gan craft, s waver, cl8 bait clacker, decoy swimbait and triple trout. ran with that bite til the lake closed. as the wind got heavier pushing the bait into the backs of coves the bite got better.
made one cast with the fluke and i don't know if it was a "fluke" but got blown up and tree'd by a descent fish. broke it off and was too lazy to retie so went back to the swimmer. you may want to look into that bite.
the key to our bite today was to locate bait in relationship with sparse brush, in or near a mudline. as long as you could find the bait it was a fish or two from every key spot. run those spots throughout the day giving each time to rest and it was pretty good. match the hatch as far as bait selection and you're good. caught them on everything from baitfish, baby bass and bluegill imitations. had our opportunites at some quality fish but you know how that goes. average fish was in the 2.5-3 pound range. didnt have a big fish as the majority were clones.
ended up with 15 fish on the swimmer and a bunch of little bass on the fly. very fun day on the water.
metered some stuff for grins and saw fish holding in 30' on outside structure.
hope this helps guys!
-matt