Yup like CM said get out there and learn a lake!
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When it comes to cost, Salt (aka sportfishing boats for exotic game fish) their in an completely different league compared to freshwater fishing. An overnight Island or Tuna trip is going to cost about $300 a person to start. A $30 per person freshwater trip is about top of the food chain in most places. Some of the trips I do that are very successful, cost less then $5 a person. So if you really think about it, the cost difference is huge unless you got deep pockets! Lol
5 bucks really you can’t even drive some where for 5 bucks.
Every year my make a excel spread sheet on my favorite trout lakes. When I want to fish, I look at the spreadsheet and pick a place to fish. I never ever fish the same lake twice in a season, know matter how good the fishing was. This is my spreadsheet so far, it looks better in Excel
Dixon Lake 3000 pounds Thurs Nov 19th Next TBD
Wolford Lake 4000 pounds Sat Dec 12th Next TBD
Little Lake 500 pounds Thur Nov 5th Next TBD
DVL 3500 pounds Thur Nov 5th Next TBD
Poway Lake No info TBD
Santee Lakes Nov 7 3000 pounds 2000 pounds Dec 8 3000 pounds Jan 16th
Cuyamaca Dec 12th WON tourn
Jennings 2500 pounds Frid Nov 20th next TBD
Rancho Jurapa and Skinner Lake No stocking this year because bacteria
in Local hatcheries / Skinner could get one
SARL Nov 12th Then weekly
Fishermans Retreat Nov 5th Next TBD
Yucaipa, , Glen Helen, Prado, and Cucamonga Nov 25th Dec 10th Dec 23rd
Orange County Lakes TBD
Silverwood TBD
DFG Stockings nothing listed yet
If you knew what we caught yesterday and what we spent, "we should have been arrested for taking some sweet candy away from baby's!" I'll break it down for you to illustrate my point! 3 of us drove in my electric car to the lake. So I spent $4 worth of electricity to power my car to the lake, which is only 25 minutes from my house. We paid $1 to park the car pro rata and split $10 worth of bait. For a total of $15 worth of expenses, divided by 3 people for a total cost of $5 each. By the way we caught over 40 pounds of fish between the 3 of us! Lol
Did you do to Hemet today? my friends are pressuring me... need to buy them gear cuz they only have bass rods. i hope to know if the trout are cooperating. Lol