Lake Wohlford is still buzzing!!

[etucker1959]

After last week very successful trip to the lake, "I couldn't wait to get back down there." To say I was a little over confidence of our projected success was probably an under statement. I told my friend Phil my fishing partner on this adventure, "it wouldn't take more then a couple of hours to get our trout limits." (So be prepared to do some catfishing after that) To further show my over confidence on how easy it was going to be, we didn't arrive at the lake till noon. (it was going to be very cold in the morning, so why be miserable) We were going to fish with our standard baits. (Orange power mice and Orange Pulp P/B dipped in garlic) Our standard method is to drift the East end of the lake from the last air rater to the reeds.

As I was motoring down there I could see 4 boats anchored in a strange pattern off of the Buoys. 3 boats were perfectly lined up with with each other and another boat inside of them. The boat inside of them was a tourist boat fishing bait and didn't catch any thing while I was watching. I mention these 3 boats because they were professionals!!! What professional bait fishermen??? No fly fishermen!!! I never really seen anybody fly fish that lake. Long story short, they killed it with steady action all day. They convinced me, "if you know what your doing" Lake Wohlford is an excellent lake to fly fish at!!!

Back to our fishing

The beauty of drift fishing is, "even if the fish move locations from the previous week." You will eventual bump into them and start catching them again. It took awhile (time I didn't have because of the late start) but I found the pattern. The fish were right in front of or halfway to the reeds from the East Buoy line. (that was also where the fly guy's were) They found the pattern too!!! After I figured that one out, it was pretty steady action on getting bites. The problem was hooking them!!! I kid you not, "we missed 2/3 of our bites." So it took all afternoon to catch our limits and that left no time to do any catfishing. (bummer!!)

The size of the fish were slightly bigger from last week. Not very many 1 pounders but mostly 1.5 pounders and some 2 pounders and 1 3 pounder. The lake still wasn't very crowded, so my reports aren't causing a stampede to the place. (it's still the best trout fishing in the Southern CA area that I can see) Their not stocking this coming week, but Jan 3 they are stocking 3,000 pounds of trout. It wouldn't be a bad time to go then, "if you don't mind catching fish!!" If you fish the way I do, it's almost a guarantee you will catch a bunch of fish, unless it rains and muddy's the water up.

PS I found an interesting pattern. No one want's to criticize my fish reports on an open forum. So they are doing it by pm's!! I can take criticism and I'll even apologize if I'm wrong about something. But the pm system is not the way to do it!! If your main motivation is for me to, "not burn your lake" then do it in an open forum. I'm afraid I might have opened up another can of worms about, "mentioning how good Lake Wohlford is to fly fishing!!"

So to stop this problem from happening anymore. I won't even open any pm's from people I don't know. (so your message will never get through) So if you have something to say, "do it in an open forum." That will let other people have a crack at what you have to say, either supporting your position or telling you to go jump in the lake with that attitude.

If someone I don't know wants to ask a private question. (that's ok) Just post on one of my threads, "I'm sending you a pm about???" I'll be sure to open it and respond!!!