The Calm Before The Storm
Corona lake 12/6/09
After a long week of hard work compiling end of year results for my annual review, trout bite fever had set in good and hard by end of business on Friday evening. I had already made plans to go out to Lake Mission Viejo on Saturday with Dodgers91485 and my buddy Daryl. We had a great time at Lake Mission Viejo, but when I got home on Saturday night after attending my grandmothers 90th birthday party I knew that I needed more drag pulling fun before the weekend could come to an end.
I decided to sleep in for a change, and not be in any rush to get to the lake. When Sunday morning arrived the snooze button got a work out and I slowly rolled out of bed around 7:30AM. I gathered my gear and was on the road by 8:00 AM. The forecast was questionable, but I had a good feeling that it was going to be a good day.
The sky looked perfect for a trout slaying session
Just what the doctor ordered
Took a couple shots of this guy as I was on my way out
Not as clear, but he was posing
I finally started fishing, and hooked up almost instantly on a small but feisty Mt. Lassen stocker. He shook the hook at the tube and declined to be photographed. I continued on toward the east side of the east side of the lake and after a drift or two I managed this nicer grade model tout (Roughly 18” and 2 ¾ pounds)
After that fish, the bite died down while the wind picked up. I was starting to get cold even in the neoprene waders (The water at Corona is very cold now) so I decided to take a break on shore. I put out some green Powerbait, enjoyed a smoke and started to eat lunch. No sooner than I had the sandwich out of the bag I see a very subtle bite on the rod I put out with Powerbait. I pick up the rod and hold it for a minute, not feeling anything I put the rod down thinking maybe it just the wind. All of the sudden I see the line growing tighter, the rod start to bend that feeling of excitement comes over me as I grab the rod to set the hook. Fish On! The result of that hook up was a nice 5# tail walker. This fish fought hard, and had my rod just about U shaped at several points during the fight.
The wind started to die out, and the sun came out for a few minutes while I was getting ready to head back out on the tube.
I kicked back out got two fish back to back. One looked like a Jess Ranch ruby red, and one looked like a Mt. Lassen Sierra Rainbow. I was to busy catching fish and forgot to take pictures as I added them to the stringer, but they were both very nice fish. I caught my last fish at 2:30 and started my kick back towards the car. This fellow looked cool perched upon on of the many above water stumps.
The true trout slayers are back in action
As I was getting ready to depart, I met the very nice gentleman from the fishing webcam website. He took a nice final stringer shot for me. I had a 57 shirt on, but it was too cold not to have a jacket on I need to buy a team 57 hoody to represent in the winter, or maybe one of the new beanies.
I can’t say enough about the quality of fish coming out of Corona Lake. These are beautiful nice sized hard fighting fish, get out there you will not be disappointed!
Parting Shots:
Most productive bait was the Orange Eagle Claw Worms, which you can pick up at the Corona Tackle Shop. These worms were most affective nose hooked and fished with a small split shot 12 inches above a #8 mosquito hook. This bait and set up accounted for 4 of my 5 fish.
The Arsenal and my early morning company
7’6” Shimano Compre paired with a Shimano Stradic 1000FI
7’0” Okuma Celilo paired with a Pinnaccle Tiny deadbolt DUL20C - Great budget Combo
Till next time, tight lines FNN!
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Originally Posted by calico killer kevin
