VineAssist
11-03-2013, 03:49 PM
Trout Season 2013/2014 defintley started out with a bang! In anticipation of the Opener we stocked some 20,000lbs of Rainbows, Brooks and Browns just for this Opening Weekend!! From here on out we will be stocking 5,000lbs of fish each and every week. Fishing was fantastic on Friday as you can see from my previous report. The bite kept going strong through the weekend as well as Rainbows up to 11.25lbs where brought to the scales and Browns up to 8.1lbs where checked in as well.
The big fish where defitnley around to as stories of broken lines and bent hooks kept coming in. Float tubers reported seeing the fish cruising after silversides on the West Shore so matching the hatch would help. Speaking of fish being on the bait allready some float tubers reported that the BIG Trout where blowing up like Yellowtail on bird schools and bait. The Brooks where also pushing bait up to the West Shore.
Trollers did real well all weekend trolling anything Pink!! The pink Flickershad, SC Shiner, and Thomas Bouyant did really well at scoring both limits and quality fish. Of course the firetigers and chrome clown colors did very well as well. Guys reported going slow from .8mph to 1.9mph was the key to getting bit.
Lure tossers did well on the Micro Plastics from Trout King, Berkley and Lip Ripperz. Dropshotting these finesse style worms was a good way to hook into a quality Rainbow, Brown or Brook. An array of colors did really well this weekend but the hot colors where the White Lighting, Orange and Pink colors. For all you plastic guys out their the Irvine Lake shop is now carrying Trout King Plastics.
Bait dunkers did well on all the Garlic Powerbaits. With the water being clear the Natural Garlic (medical green color) and Rainbow proved to be the hot baits. Some anglers did really well on the Salmon Egg Red Powerbait. As the weekend wore on the Nightcrawler bite also picked up possibly in anticipation of a little low pressure front that is supoose to pass through the area mid week.
And I can hear everybody on the other end of the keyboard chomping at the bit allready! Lets see the pictures!!!!!!
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0208.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0208.jpg.html)
Nick Silva of Orange caught this 8.10lb Brown while fishing a Lip Ripperz lure at the West Shore.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0217.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0217.jpg.html)
Dave Young of the Pro Team helps some of our little anglers display this fine limit of Rainbows from the kids lagoon.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0218.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0218.jpg.html)
Billy Cohill of Fullerton bested this 11.25lb Rainbow Trout while fishing a nightcrawler at the West Shore. This is the biggest fish so far this weekend.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0222.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0222.jpg.html)
Arman Sarraft of Ranch Santa Margarita had a great day trolling Flickershads and dropshotting Powerworms all over the lake. The mini angler proudly shows off his limit with his father and pro team director Marlon Meade.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0225.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0225.jpg.html)
James Anna, Bryce Edlund and friends show off their fine limits of Rainbow Trout caught using Powerbait enhance with Power Dust. They are pictured with pro team director Marlon Meade and pro team member Dave Young.
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Gayle Johnson scored this limit of Trout while float tubing.
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Trout Fishing and Irvine Lake=Family Fun
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0229.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0229.jpg.html)Little Blake Tomsen of Westminister used a 3" Trout Worm to fool this 6.60lb Brown Trout today at the West Shore.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0230.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0230.jpg.html)
Hayden Homan of Dana Point landed his personal best Rainbow Trout while trolling a Pink Flickershad alond the West Shore.
Also Irvine Lake has re opend the Catch Out Pond! On the weekends for only $5 a child can go down to the pond and catch a fish from the pond! Its a SURE FIRE way to get kids into fishing and the fishing is Great. One of our staff members or pro staff will be on hand to help you cast out and net your catch.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0213.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0213.jpg.html)
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0215.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0215.jpg.html)
Dont forget next weekend November 9th and 10th is our Veterans Day Trout Tournament which is a MASTERS QUALIFIER!!!!!!!! A $20 buy into the tournament and the top 10 heaviest fish from each day will be paid out! This tournament like all of our tournaments is a 100% pay back. We are the ORIGINATORS of this do not be fooled! Also the top 10 heaviest fish from the tournament weekend will move on to the Masters Trout Tournament in April!
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/vetday_2013.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/vetday_2013.jpg.html)
Once again on behalf of the staff we would like to thank everyone for showing up this weekend and making Opening Weekend a HUGE success! Thank you to Dawn, Joe, and Bob Hoose from Berkley for the great buy a jar of powerbait get the NEW Berkley Power Dust free promotion! Thank you to the Bite On crew, Eddie, Tony, Aaron, Chris, Josh and Lily your Sunday Create Bait promotion was off the hook. The guys and gals at Calavares Trout Farms (Tim, Stacey, Steven and Nathan) AMAZING job as always. Those fish where UNBELIEVABLE! And I can not wait to see what you guys have in store for us! To my staff for an unbelievably busy weekend it went great.
To Daniela UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING JOB ON THE OPENER!!!!! I still owe you a drink and we will do that soon! A lot of you guys dont see all the additonal work myself and this phenominal lady put in! Their where a lot of hours during the CLOSED days that we put in 12 hr days. A lot of frantic phone calls on getting things together and making everything right. She works herself ragged and she put in a pretty grueling week from start to finish! We have been doing this for awhile together and I can not think of a better person to call my Parner in putting a lot of the Tournaments and Openers together. Most of all I think of her like a friend! She cares deeply about all of you and the lake. So once agian GReat JOB
To the board of directors who make this all possible by backing us up and allowing us to put a QUALITY and family fun experice on the table thank you. You guys are amazing and we appreciate the support.
Thank you all for reading even though I got a little sappy at the end. We hope to see eveyone through out the week and hopefully for next weekends tournament. As always until next time!
Tight lines guys and gals.
Jimmy
The big fish where defitnley around to as stories of broken lines and bent hooks kept coming in. Float tubers reported seeing the fish cruising after silversides on the West Shore so matching the hatch would help. Speaking of fish being on the bait allready some float tubers reported that the BIG Trout where blowing up like Yellowtail on bird schools and bait. The Brooks where also pushing bait up to the West Shore.
Trollers did real well all weekend trolling anything Pink!! The pink Flickershad, SC Shiner, and Thomas Bouyant did really well at scoring both limits and quality fish. Of course the firetigers and chrome clown colors did very well as well. Guys reported going slow from .8mph to 1.9mph was the key to getting bit.
Lure tossers did well on the Micro Plastics from Trout King, Berkley and Lip Ripperz. Dropshotting these finesse style worms was a good way to hook into a quality Rainbow, Brown or Brook. An array of colors did really well this weekend but the hot colors where the White Lighting, Orange and Pink colors. For all you plastic guys out their the Irvine Lake shop is now carrying Trout King Plastics.
Bait dunkers did well on all the Garlic Powerbaits. With the water being clear the Natural Garlic (medical green color) and Rainbow proved to be the hot baits. Some anglers did really well on the Salmon Egg Red Powerbait. As the weekend wore on the Nightcrawler bite also picked up possibly in anticipation of a little low pressure front that is supoose to pass through the area mid week.
And I can hear everybody on the other end of the keyboard chomping at the bit allready! Lets see the pictures!!!!!!
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0208.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0208.jpg.html)
Nick Silva of Orange caught this 8.10lb Brown while fishing a Lip Ripperz lure at the West Shore.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0217.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0217.jpg.html)
Dave Young of the Pro Team helps some of our little anglers display this fine limit of Rainbows from the kids lagoon.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0218.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0218.jpg.html)
Billy Cohill of Fullerton bested this 11.25lb Rainbow Trout while fishing a nightcrawler at the West Shore. This is the biggest fish so far this weekend.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0222.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0222.jpg.html)
Arman Sarraft of Ranch Santa Margarita had a great day trolling Flickershads and dropshotting Powerworms all over the lake. The mini angler proudly shows off his limit with his father and pro team director Marlon Meade.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0225.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0225.jpg.html)
James Anna, Bryce Edlund and friends show off their fine limits of Rainbow Trout caught using Powerbait enhance with Power Dust. They are pictured with pro team director Marlon Meade and pro team member Dave Young.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/Gayle.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/Gayle.jpg.html)
Gayle Johnson scored this limit of Trout while float tubing.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0227.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0227.jpg.html)
Trout Fishing and Irvine Lake=Family Fun
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0229.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0229.jpg.html)Little Blake Tomsen of Westminister used a 3" Trout Worm to fool this 6.60lb Brown Trout today at the West Shore.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0230.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0230.jpg.html)
Hayden Homan of Dana Point landed his personal best Rainbow Trout while trolling a Pink Flickershad alond the West Shore.
Also Irvine Lake has re opend the Catch Out Pond! On the weekends for only $5 a child can go down to the pond and catch a fish from the pond! Its a SURE FIRE way to get kids into fishing and the fishing is Great. One of our staff members or pro staff will be on hand to help you cast out and net your catch.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0213.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0213.jpg.html)
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/GEDC0215.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/GEDC0215.jpg.html)
Dont forget next weekend November 9th and 10th is our Veterans Day Trout Tournament which is a MASTERS QUALIFIER!!!!!!!! A $20 buy into the tournament and the top 10 heaviest fish from each day will be paid out! This tournament like all of our tournaments is a 100% pay back. We are the ORIGINATORS of this do not be fooled! Also the top 10 heaviest fish from the tournament weekend will move on to the Masters Trout Tournament in April!
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/jrg26p/vetday_2013.jpg (http://s667.photobucket.com/user/jrg26p/media/vetday_2013.jpg.html)
Once again on behalf of the staff we would like to thank everyone for showing up this weekend and making Opening Weekend a HUGE success! Thank you to Dawn, Joe, and Bob Hoose from Berkley for the great buy a jar of powerbait get the NEW Berkley Power Dust free promotion! Thank you to the Bite On crew, Eddie, Tony, Aaron, Chris, Josh and Lily your Sunday Create Bait promotion was off the hook. The guys and gals at Calavares Trout Farms (Tim, Stacey, Steven and Nathan) AMAZING job as always. Those fish where UNBELIEVABLE! And I can not wait to see what you guys have in store for us! To my staff for an unbelievably busy weekend it went great.
To Daniela UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING JOB ON THE OPENER!!!!! I still owe you a drink and we will do that soon! A lot of you guys dont see all the additonal work myself and this phenominal lady put in! Their where a lot of hours during the CLOSED days that we put in 12 hr days. A lot of frantic phone calls on getting things together and making everything right. She works herself ragged and she put in a pretty grueling week from start to finish! We have been doing this for awhile together and I can not think of a better person to call my Parner in putting a lot of the Tournaments and Openers together. Most of all I think of her like a friend! She cares deeply about all of you and the lake. So once agian GReat JOB
To the board of directors who make this all possible by backing us up and allowing us to put a QUALITY and family fun experice on the table thank you. You guys are amazing and we appreciate the support.
Thank you all for reading even though I got a little sappy at the end. We hope to see eveyone through out the week and hopefully for next weekends tournament. As always until next time!
Tight lines guys and gals.
Jimmy