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Monday, February 24th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well lets see,me and my partner went to Amador to do some bass ishing witch didnt go so well we threw everything we had,i ended up hooking up with a 2lber on a brown and orange jig in the 12t level.the bass were not wanting to bite or anyone it seemed,so we ended up doing some trout ishing,i know this is a bass site but come on.overall the bass had a bit o lock jaw,i talked to a ew bassers and they were all having a hard day.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: maybe some more sun will pick the bite up,who knows,i don't.

Sunday, February 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On Friday the 21st me, my dad, and my brother went ishing at Amador. We parked and i was planning on loat tubing. I started shore ishing when I saw some guy ishing in a little cove next to the dam. He caught about 3 trout in the 3-4lb range, when we haven't seen any. When the person let I went over there and saw at least 30+ trout ranging rom DFG size to 5 and maybe 6 pounds! I had a hook with a night crawler on and went over there and tryed my luck. On the third cast a nice 2>3lb trout grabed on and I reeled him in.Ater that a man that owned part o Amador came over and started showing me that I didnt have to use such a big piece o nightcrawler plus I needed smaller hook.When I tryed that I caught 5 more trout ranging rom 1 DFG and two 3lbers, 4lb, and a nice 5 lber. It was a great day.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: small hook + small piece o night crawler

Tuesday, February 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A riend invited me to ish with him last night and I don't turn down invitations to ish Amador. We started in Jackson Creek throwing swimbaits. Actually, I was throwing them and he was jigging them around the 25 to 30 oot depth. I'm not sure what he was doing, but it worked! Ater his SECOND cast, I was holding the net (which is nothing new or me!) and lited a 5 lb 11 oz bass in the boat. This was about 5 pm. I got a ew weak jig hits while he kept slowly jigging this weird colored (green, I think) 8" swimbait. About hal an hour later he nails a 3 lb 10 oz bass and probably missed another. Ater 3 days o heavy boating pressure it seemed that the bass and trout had moved deeper. Beore dark we moved out to a point in big bay and continued to throw or jig swimbaits. I was throwing my 8" Basstrix rainbow trout swimbait near what I knew was a breakline and it paid o. The ish only elt like a weed or a second - no strike. When the weed jumped, things got exciting. Finally he gets to net a nice 6 pounder that totally swallowed the lure. I had to really work to extract the swimbait but thankully I was successul. She swam o ine!! The early clouds had let and I knew we were in or a cold and tough night. We were hoping or clouds. Within and hour, he had a good hit on a jig in Mountain Spring arm and I netted his 5 lb 3 oz bass. Ater all, it was his boat so it is only proper that I was the net man! We were pretty proud however - at the end o a 3 day weekend we had 4 bass or over 20 pounds in about 3 hours. My hot coee never tasted so good!! The evening got colder as the east breeze really came up and the boat was very wet with moisture - not good ishing conditions in February. Unortunately my prediction turned out to be correct - he caught one more small bass about 1 1/2 lbs on a jig, and we both missed several, but there really was no eed at all. I even had two hits on a 7" white Senko that I ished in the bright moon. We inally gave up a little ater midnight - still pleased at catching some quality bass.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The bass are eeding well i you can be there at the right time. The bigger bass seem to be eeding on trout and other baitish. It is my belie that i you have a cold night, the bite will be good in late aternoon and right ater dark, and then slow down dramatically. A cloudy, warmer evening will prolong the night bite. There are always exceptions however. We caught swimbait ish rom 5 to 30 eet. Go igure!

Friday, February 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished on v-day. on the lake 2:30 ished or 2 hours beore my irst ish 3iber. the water temp rose 4 degress since the last time I was out. ish becoming more predictable (pre-spawn) may be. did most o my ishing in rock and carson arms seemed to be were the active ish were. didn't get second bite until 10:00p.m. a dink. started to get ustrated and started to think "may be I should go home" and then realized I should stick it out and get my money's worth. It payed o the bite started to turn on around 11:00 lots o keepers inthe 2 to 2.5ilb range the biggest went 6 (a very skinny six very un amador like maybe balimic)caught a total o 13. the night bite is starting to inally pick up. the 12 ish wre caught on jigs.
    City: sac

    Tips: try using piccaso rattlin in purple and black with a brush hog trailer. work the steep walls all the way to the bottom and then shake your lure in place. Use lots o smelly jelly.

Sunday, February 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 48-50'

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: GOT ON THE WATER ABOUT 0900.WENT STRAIGHT TO JACKSON CREEK.THREW SWIM BAITS, NO TAKERS ON ANY REACTION. GRAPHED FISH 30-40FT OFF MAIN POINTS, STARTED SHAKING WORMS & GOT BIT FIRST CAST 3LB. PARTNER USING DROP-SHOT ALSO GOT FISH. ENDED UP WITH ABOUT 25 FISH, 3LBS THE BIGGEST. BIG ONES ARE SUSPENDED AND WAITING FOR WATER TO WARM UP.GIVE IT A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND ITS ON!
    City: SAC

    Tips: SHAKE 6" ROBO WORMS WITH BRASS & GLASS REAL FAST OR DROP-SHOT 4" ROBO WORMS IN 25-40FT OFF MAIN POINTS.

Thursday, January 30th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went last week hogghunting or bass. knowing that better ishing can be expected at night when on the hunt, early days at this time o year is hit and miss until the spawn begins in the spring, so wasnt expecting much(the only thing that keeps my hopes up was my PB caught here at 10am on a pumpkinseed Senko, at 12.3lbs.anyways, tossed out some spinnerbaits, tried jigging in 20t o water, various senkos, to no prevail. the looks o the classic skunk in the making. but then, as i switched to my Castiac trout as suggested by FishChris (check out his sight at www.trophybassonly.com), and in about 20 minutes, had a ew that looked 6-8lbs cautiously trailing, but would not strike. until i darted to otherside o arm and wham-o! ater a rather modest but un ight, landed mama o 9.6lbs. she was the only taker all day(atleast while bass ishing). spent the rest o the day trolling or cuttbows and caught 3, or 10lbs total. thats the only way to get our monies worth, right? See, i,ve notice the nagging about the rather steep ees in some o the various past reports, and rom a bassishermenonly soul, i could see there point o view.$21 is a bit ridiculous or those who want to sport it out catching and releasing bass, because the ees are going towards the stocking o all them beautiul cuttbows. or is it? i think that a decent ee or bassishermen would be $10 including launching a boat. now doesnt that sound reasonable to the avid bass isherman hunting at this lake?(assuming that you are catching and releasing, and we know that a real bass ishermen catches and releases always.) I do believe that the current ees is too high when it comes to bass ishing here. I think that they should monitor in 3 spots, one at the boat ramp,one rom the docks and one up on the dam.charge two dierent ees or people keeping ish, and people sportishing.nothing major, just an occasional checkup to make sure that troutishermen have paid ull price and not getting a discounted"BASS PASS" to stagger home with 20lbs o cuttbow trout, and at the same time, making sure that the bass guys who got bored with bass ishing are not tossing these cuttbows into their livewells ater switching to trout ishing. (that would work i the world was ull o honest people, but we live in the real world, and we all know the tricks to save a buck). So the point is, there is no point, and no solution i you look it at it. or bassishermen, just grin and bare it when it comes to the $21 ee, and hopeully someday, you will be rewarded with the catch o a lietime rom a 20lb bucketbass getting at on planted trout here. as or complaining about charging a 9 year old ull price to ish or trout, well air is air. Amador is the heaviest stocked o any lake in the area, and ighting and catching a ew 5lbers is well worth the money we pay, although a outting o empty stringers is a bit saddening, but its gonna happen. and i think anyone with a pole, who is planning on taking home a 5 ish limit should pay ull price, regardless o age. it keeps the lake well planted and huge holdovers or the uture. i they didnt charge ull price or each ishermen(o all ages), then you would see more and more greedy athers, with their kids, their neighbors kids, and riends o there neighbors riends lining the docks and dam with ishing poles galore, doing all o the ishing and taking home 30 trout, while the kids run around and throw rocks into the water, while never even touching any o the poles, because Pops says, only he has the power and skill to reel them in, in which in some cases o a 10lb cuttbow, that might actually be the case. Come on guys, theres a reason or everything! stop complaining.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: to the bassishermen-hang in there, maybe they will make some changes and keep up the good work. Catch and release.to the budget trout guys- take your kids down the road to Rancho Seco and save some money. same ish there, just not as abundant.Also, take a small crat with electric motor and toss or troll trout pattern lures into the waters o Rancho seco when the pocketbook is a bit on the light side. your may never want to pay $21 to bass ish amador again. check out some o the bass caught there at FishChris' Trophybassonly web site i you dont know what im talking about. Good luck to all in 2003!

Wednesday, January 29th, 2003

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    Water Temp: --------------

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Its becoming "trout active" season and I have a tip or the trout isherman. I know that this is a bass ishing website but I'm seeing a lot o people sayin they caught trout soo.... I you want to catch trout use olive colored Wooly Buggers. I you don't lyish then put on a plastic bobber that you can put water in and take water out, then put out 4 or 5 t o line then tie the ly on. I don't know why OLIVE colored but the people I talked to at MelCottons said it produced more than most colors.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Thanks or your time and i the bass ain't bitin' then tie on a ly.

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I told my hard-workin' tackle rep buddy Rick Teitz that he needed a break so that we could igure out what's happin' at Amador. We igured it!! We arrived Friday aternoon about 4 pm and started ishing about 4:30. We threw worms and jigs to no avail and then we noticed that some o the trout were acting weird. Maybe they were being chased by bass? Rick was the irst to throw his 8" Basstrix trout-colored swimbait (he should since he reps them!) and almost immediately he yelled - maybe out o pain rom setting the hook! I soon netted a eisty 7-6 bass that had nearly swallowed the swimbait. A ew casts later he is into another - this time only 7-2. Aw, what a shame. And then another - believe it or not - a 2 3/4 lb bass ate that swimbait. He had another spit it out at the boat. We both have something to talk about at San Mateo ISE. My swimbait lacked sex appeal and I didn't get a hit. Ater a great rib dinner at the resort, we went out or some night ishing. That is the reason I wanted to go because it was going to be a warm evening - and it was! We got bit on 10 and 11 inch worms and I got my 7th ever Warmouth bass on a brush hog. Rick certainly had the better trip this time, thought I did get 3rd biggest bass - in Rock Creek - a 4-2 that took a 10" zipper worm. 10" Power worms (Junebug). 10" zipper worms, and 11 " Gator tail worms seemed to work best. They would not touch a jig. We had the question answered - would a bass hit a swimbait at night? They will! Rick hooked one about 10 pm and we could hear it jump in the pitch black. What a hoot! Problem is - it jumped o. The bite really slowed down ater midnight and we wisely decided to get some sleep. We wound up with nine bass and a Warmouth bass and a ive ish limit o 24 1/2 to 25 pounds. Not bad or January! Only had one small bass - about 1 1/4 lbs. All the rest above 2 pounds.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The swimbait bite was sensational but didn't last long. We were ishing steeper banks with a lot o rock. Points didn't produce well last night. The ish deinately went deeper at night with most o the action at 20 eet. The tail action o our worms seemed to attract the bass. I was shakin' brass and glass but it didn't seem to help at all.

Thursday, January 9th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: At the lake about 8am and started with nightcrawlers and caught a bluegill, with some bass chasing ater it as I reeled it in. Everyone else was trying powerbait, marshmellows, worms and not too many were caught. So my buddy and I walked the bank and caught our limit within a couple o hours. Using 1/4 oz. roostertails, silver blades, also castmasters, and little cleo's. Trout were 2 to 3lbs a couple o 1lbers. Saw some bass in the 8-9lb range eating smaller trout right in ront o me.I am usually a bassisherman,(tournaments).
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Bass ishermen might want to try a trout type o lure. Jerkbait, Castaic trout 6-8inch

Monday, January 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water around 5:35,started to ish the point directly in ront o the loating dock. About 20 minutes later my irst night bass o the year a dink. marked alot o ish in the 15 to 35 t range with the shallower ish seeming to be more active, but also alot smaller. It was a weird bite tonite I was ishing a 10in june bug power worm, each time I got bit I would set the hook and nothig, reel in check my worm and the tail would be missing, happened our times. tried smaller worms but the ish wouldn't hit.this ishing ordeal lasted 7 hours or three ish 2 dinks and respectul 4Ibr. let early cause my balls were rozen to my leg.
    City: sac

    Tips: god damn it gets cold at amador, bring alot o clothes, when you think you brought enough bring some more, also I know it's not allowed but bring a little wiskey to get you eelin' all warm and uzzy inside but not shit aced. ish sloooooow at night. DUH!

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: pretty cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Threw a swimbait or 3 hours with only one ollower... a 3 lbs trout! Decided to inesse ish with a 10" worm. Wasn't happening and started to dig through tackle box or next magic lure, then elt a yank yank. Did a back lip setting the hook but missed the "most likely lake record." Spent the rest o the day throwing plastic but to no avail. Saw people catching mondo trout on everything rom power bait, worms, lies and spinners. Oh well, another day, another $21!! $8 day use ee + $7 ishing ee + $6 boat launch ee!! They should apply some o these ees towards ridding the shores o trash and improving the dam road.
    City: Ione

    Tips: Tip #1

Wednesday, November 20th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Rick Teitz and I went to Amador last night looking or the big bite! We started ater dark and while the ishing was pretty good, we only got one sort-o-big bite, and as he oten does, Rick got it! He caught it on a Dead Ringer worm in Jackson Creek at midnight and it went 6 lbs 13 oz! He said he had to catch that one to keep up with me and I did have the hot stick early on. In addition to several quality keeper bass, I did land a 3 and a 3-9 bass on a black/chartreuse Weapon jig with a 6 inch #135 Yamamoto grub - my avorite color during the ull moon. We wound up with 14 bass (and one trout on a crankbait) with a ive ish limit at 17 1/4 lbs. There are big ish showing on the meter all over Amador, but do not seem to be active at night. Most o the ish we caught were in the top 15 eet - some on the bank even in the bright moon. In the winter there arn't many shadows because the moon is straight overhead. It really was a beautiul night - cold - but bearable.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: We ished points and walls - all over the lake. We looked or shoreline areas that had the steepest dropos. That seemed to be the key to inding quality ish. The water is still pretty warm or this late in November. In addition to worms and jigs, we did get a ish on a spinnerbait and one on a rattletrap, plus the trout on a crankbait.

Saturday, November 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out or a hal days worth o ishing, had a desent day, 5 keepers in the 2 to 3 pound range. caught 3 on shaking peanutbutter-jelly worm in 20-30t depths,1 on a brown/purple jig o rocky main body point and one on a crome/blue rattle trap on a wind blown slow tapering point. ish slow
    City: salida

    Tips: good time to look at the lake or summer night time spots. lake is down around 20 t.

Monday, October 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 4:30 pm till 8:30 pm. Zero bites. Oh yeah, they raised the ee - it's now $21 or one person + boat + tow vehicle! This isn't very air to bass ishermen which are primarily catch-and-release whereas the trout ishermen take home $5 - $10 worth o meat per trip.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Wait till November beore the night ishing turns on. A guy reported catching an 8 on a Senko during the day so the day ishing must be better than the night. Also, it appears they recently began planting trout. This may have drastically aected the bass' appetite, especially i the planted trout size includes some 7" sized ish.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 5 pm till 11 pm. Picked up a couple on topwater and a couple more on Duh jigs beore dark. Ater dark picked up a couple more on jigs with the biggest going 3.8 pounds. Bite slowed way down ater 8pm. There were some deinitely active larger ish at dusk but you only have time to ish one stretch o bank beore the bite is over. At least my two biggest ish put up a good ight. Bite died too early to see i there was a worm bite.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Day: black/blue Duh jigs with smoke/silver lake Yamamoto grub trailer. Nite: large black/chart jig with same trailer.

Friday, September 27th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I met my very good ishin' buddy and hard workin' tackle rep Rick Tietz at Amador Thursday about 5:30 PM (he has to ish sometime!). We were going to try to beat the approaching cold ront and we did - or awhile. The delta breeze was coming up and the temp was slowing dropping as we started ishing. There was very little surace activity which was not surprising ater all the Sept. hot weather. We ished jigs and large worms beore dark on deep walls, points, and o-shore structure. Rick drew irst blood, which he oten does, with a eisty 6 1/4 bass which didn't look like it had been eeding well. Kind o skinny or Amador. Right ater dark, Rick breaks o a big bass - probably a nick in his line. I decided that it was going to be a worm bite, though I did catch my biggest o the night - 3-2 - on a Weapon Jig. We used 11 inch black gator-tail, black and black/chartreuse 10 inch Power, and 8 inch junebug Dead Ringer worms. Up until midnight the ishing was air with Rick adding a 4-9, 3-8 and 3 pound bass to our 5 ish limit o about 20 1/4 pounds. Obviously, he had the better night!! Fishing is oten very strange - the day beore I caught a 9 lb 7 oz bass at Clear Lake at 1:45 in the aternoon with nearly a hundred bass boats on the lake. Ater midnight, Rick and I were ishing Amador as our private lake - everyone had let. Sounds pretty exciting, right? Monster bass ready to bite!! Unortunately, weather trumps a good big bass bite and when the moist air moved in (boat seats and carpet all wet) the bite died and the dinks ruled. Other than one big ish bite I had about 12:30 AM, which I blew, all bass ater that were under 13 inches. We inally took a nap or three hours and tried in the early morning. One or two small bass was all we caught - it was dead. The weather was cool and oggy. The air temp had dropped about 35 degrees overnight. Overall, we were pleased - had a lot o un and did land a total o 17 bass. Not bad or a slow night.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Rick and I always keep our heads buried in our Lowrance X-15's. That is how you ish Amador. As we suspected, most o the bass were suspended and in an inactive mode - moreso as the evening wore on. The bass were really deep, mostly rom 25 to 45 eet deep. We really did ind the large bass - they just wouldn't bite.. It is always interesting to observe that when weather condition are poor, little bass eed a lot 'cause they know the big ones arn't!!! Thursday night was perect example o that - the colder the night temp got, the smaller the bass became. There is always next time!!

Wednesday, September 25th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had so much un last Friday night that I had to do this again. Hit the lake around 6pm and got o the water about 6am Wed morning. Threw crankbaits all night. Got two 4 pounders and lost 3 more about the same size. And about 10 more rom dinks to 2 pounds. Working the edges o the points and rock walls rom Devil's Gate into the Jackson Creek area. Fishing parrallel to shore 10-15 eet deep. No skunks this time but had a bobcat wander down the shore beore dark. Didn't even care that I was there. Forgot my catish bait and wasn't sure o the size limit anyways.
    City: Sloughhouse

    Tips: Fish eeding along the weeds at night. Work the outside edges along steep rock banks.

Saturday, September 7th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out or about 4 hours. 6 to about 10 at night. Caught a nice 3.5 and then got skunked or the rest o the day. Tried worms texas rigged and then tried a little carolina. What the heck am I doing wrong. Anyways I am in a tournament next weekend there so to all o Santa Cruz Bass Club I am pleases to let you know that it looks like I will be donating another 45$ to the cause.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: I have none....Does anyone have tips or mysel.

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Janet and I ished rom 11am to 3pm and caught 5 nice bass, missed a couple and lost a couple. Biggest was 8.32. Most o the ish were caught on 8" pro gold w/ red lake Pro worms in 25' on main body points. Only 4 other boats on the water, nice.
    City: Sacramento

Thursday, August 22nd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: began pursuit around 830am. took buddy with me who has not caught a mama bass over 5lbs so told him be a slight chance at this lake and reminded him o the 80 lb limit caught here in 1981 i believe. Larry Hemphill, is that still the state record or 5 bass? (our hometown heroe or bass catching, but didnt teaching students bring you more joy? i thought not.)keep up the good ishing reports,Larry and hey, dont you ever age? all o the pictures we've seen o you in the magazines seem to be rom the early 80's.i guess ishing keeps you looking young. anyways, back to the report. started with some topwater, in chartreuse, and caught 2 bass with little size.my buddy, using a hula popper in rog pattern hooked into monster shortly ater, appeared to be over 6lbs or so but will never know since he became too anxious bringing it in. SNAP! bye bye.he was crushed. but told him it was still early.I then ished with a Matzuo crank upon the ledges o jackson arm, and sunk into a good one. weighed in at 7.9lbs. pretty largemouth ish, perect stripes down the middle. things got slow or a ew hours, as it tends to do, but picked back up or the better. we were throwing SENKOS and PB pulse worms and the un was on........are you ready?.....ish on! Fish on! etc...4.4#..8.3#..6.0#..2.5#'s...then...bam! a 12.1lb godzilla on a beat up senko ished backwords on the hook. it was my buddies hook up and he ished it beautiully as I swore to him he'd be taking a swim i he lost it. the last 45 seconds o the ight,it damned near broke his rod, you could hear it hum beore letting it take some drag."dont give it to much!" i screamed. then "let him run!" it was worth its weight in gold just to watch him ight this ish. it was what ishing is all about. you could have stuck a sotball in this monsters mouth! About 15 minutes later, it was my turn... tossed a senko green with blue lake that had been soaked in extra salt, cast,sink,sink,twitch,pull,sink,reeled slowly,slowly, i said "here we go" as i elt something then...bam! a quick battle that awarded me with another lunker. but not as big as his. only a mere 11.5lb beauty! i can live with that.Sorry guys, but my buddy kept his ish as it was the biggest hes hooked into that wasnt caught in a river, but mine was released back to the waters o Slamador.caught 8 more throughout the day, hal o them over 3lbs. although you shouldnt expect days like this too much, always have aith. oh, and by the way, we will be doing our TROUT ishing here in late october to do battle with the cutbows, and yes Justin W, i may report our catches on this sight. i have not orgotten rom last year but let by gones be by gones, i tried emailing you to get together and ish, but you did not respond...lets do this! and to the one who brought their dog on the boat who decided to jump in and ish himsel, thanks, he attracted the bass today, but please keep him in the boat next time, i dont think many would have been happy to hook a 40lb mutt! as he scouted the banks or over 10minutes.Sorry. (and to leave you with a "ish story", me and my ishing partner were trout ishing at Upper Salmon Lake in the lakes basins o the sierra nevada last month or so, me using yellow power bait, him using chartuese Crave, i started getting bit, but then it stopped, a ew seconds later, hes reeling in his line with a nice little bend on his pole, while he doing this, i kept trying to tighten the slack in my line, but it wasnt working, so i deciding to bring in my line and as i did, my line started heading towards him about 10t away rom me, so i quickly brought in all the slack and then my rod bent, which was an ultralight, the ight was major and thought or sure my pole was about to snap, and at the same time my buddy is reaking out but not being able to land his ish. then we realized our lines were directly aimed in the same direction, and as i pulled, his pole bent, as he pulled, my pole was bent, so we thought our trout had tangled up in each other. so i let him bring in his ish irst, and try to ree my line, well as it turned out, i no longer had a ish to reel in as he removed the hook rom the side o the 18 inch rainbow trouts mouth, as my hook was ound deep in the gully o the same ishes throat. we were ighting over the same ish.it obviously swallowed my bait, and proceed straight to his crave bait to eat it too, and didnt think twice. so we ended the day with him landing 10 and one hal trout, and me landing 17 and one hal trout.(one hal trout, try explained that one to listeners)happy ishing to all!
    City: yuba city

    Tips: go with your insticts and have patience. and put your dogs on a lease. or take FIDO to a slough,ditch,bybass, whatever, and let them do some "CAT"-ishing.just kidding. Fido was our lucky charm that day.