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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
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Water Temp: 53o
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A practice day at the Lopes with a fishing buddy.
Hit Whittenburg on a first stop and we were greeted with some very cold conditions to say the least. Saw a few guys out in the same area bundeled up tight against the conditions. Slow going for sure. Tossed blades into the weed stickups [as was others] looking for crusing fish but no takers. Headed to Vasquez area with jigs against the banks and walls with nothing. Over to the dam area to get out of the wind but it still followed us. Tossed a few jigs and started to dropshot. Partner pulled in one keeper after three breakoffs in the rocks and I pulled off three lighter jigs as well with nothing. Two younger kids to our right pulled in maybe two smallies [really small] and that was it. headed to a few other good spots but nothing hit. Used a drop on the point just out of the marina where we finally were showing fish but still nothing. Wind was really pulling us around and we elected to call it a day at about noon. Cold out, hungry and alot of casts with no much to show. Warmer waether may help.
City: SMTips: Being it is March, no real sign yet of fish moving to shallows for pre-spawn. Maybe in a few days... Weather helping.
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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Water Temp: 51.6o
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Frost on the pumpkin this morning with a 'white' dock at this mornings launch around 8AM. Pretty cold for sure and warmies was the call along with lots of hot coffee. A few old club bassers were out this morning and I assume, it was a practice for next weeks Anglers meet. Lousy was the call for the day! Bite was well off normal and searching for fish took up most of the morning. Tried cranks, creature baits and jigs with nothing to show so switched to drop and picked off two nice crappie. Oh woopie! Hit the usual spots and ran into most everyone saying the same -- TOUGH -- A few with some small limits in the 6lb range and maybe a good 4 here and there but slow times at the Lopes today. Sun and warm finally came out late around 10:30-11 with a very small breeze, but a cold one!
Dam area was producing hits but small. In the back of the lake reports have a few good ones taken but nobody was fessing up to what it took to get them.
City: SMTips: Tips for the day -- BRING HOT COFFEE
Monday, December 1st, 2008
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Water Temp: 59-63o
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A great day to finish out the month... Feeling that 'brisk' morning air now that winter is closing in on us CentralCal folks. Was also greeted with a small bit of wind at 6:45 but nothing to get excited over as it soon passed and the sun soon popped out giving way to a great warm day on the water.
Started near Vasquez with a swim on the flatter ground but only had a few small hits not giving me much of a confidance to keep using it so I tossed a jig against the walls with only one 10" black to show for my many casts. Shot across the lake to another point and started drop shottin with much more response on the very first drop. Pulled out several smaller bass but no keepers. Fished it pretty good then headed to the dam area shotting again with many takers and at least 1/2 bag of Robo's taken. Switched to a smaller #2 hook from a #1 and started getting more hook-ups on the Robo I used. Mostly larges and only two smallies out of maybe 15-16 caught. Stayed in 30-35 foot range slowly walking it back to the boat.
Left there and hit the 'Mircle Mile' with only two but one good keeper in the 2-1/2 range. Hit the point at the marina for three more and called it a day about 11:30.
City: SMTips: Drop shot seemed to be the best bet today. Try an Oxblood Crawler Robo on 8lb green fluro line with a #1 or #2 wide gap hook. Used the Owner brand hook which worked great and the Gamagatsu #1 hook I use for whacky rig. Just cut off the nylon weedless guard and they work OK as well.
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
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Water Temp: 64
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Slow day on the water. Fished from 6:30 - 10:30. Lots of shad and metered fish. Cranked secondary drop-offs with one keeper. Tried the dropshot and texas rigged worms with no luck. Going to try deep jigging with a spoon next weekend. Never tried that method, but might be worth a try with the large schools of shad hanging deep.
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
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Water Temp: 63
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A fun trip to the lopes today just to enjoy.. Sun was out, wind wasn't and it was a rarety for the Lopes with a lot of flatter than usual water and ample sun. Headed towards Vasquez in hope of using a new jig and trailer combo but no luck. Knew that it would be slow but it was really slow! With a front headed in and the water temps down we knew today would be tough and it was. Left Vasques area and headed toward the 'mircle mile' by the old roadbed. Partner hit a great weigher on a drop-shot [which was the only thing working today]which maybe pulled the scales to 3 to 4 pounds. Chunky fish and we were in right on the bank in the transisiton areas. Cruised around towards the marina and hit again right on the point on the same setup drop-shot.
Headed off at noon with only four in the boat that were keepers. Still --- A fun day despite a few battery problems
City: SMTips: For those dropping -- No need for that 'bigger' hook. A #2 Owner worked great with about 18" of trailer line for the shot and eye hooking the bait. Stay close to the banks as it seems the fish were moving up closer looking for shad in the 8 to 20 foot range of depth.
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Got to lake 7am and big motor would not start so jumped on electric and headed to the front of the lake. First half hour thru spook and caught two keepers on point east of marina pound and half each. Thrid fish just inhaled spook and was my biggest fish taken at Lopez 5 1/2 pounder was really cool. Fished about three more hours with spook and dropshot and caught 8 more fish all shorts FUN DAY
City: santa maria
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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Water Temp: Anita Wade
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: I was wondering how much the entry fee is for the open on july 19.If someone could let me no i would appriciate it thanks.
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
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Water Temp: 71-72o
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A visit to check condtions for next weeks 'Lopez Open' offered by Gold Coast Bass. If you havent made one of these opens, now is the perfect time. Lots of fun and a great BBQ and the always welcomed 'Great Raffle'. 1/2 6 to noon.
Lake still showing a bit of green algea in the backside by Vasquez. Water is warm which should prompt some better fishing.
** BE ADVISED ** If you havent been to Lopez in the past few weeks, a "NEW" pipe gate is in place on the launch ramp and it does not open until 6AM so don't think you can come early and launch -- Aint gunna happen!
Headed to the Vasquez area to check out the habitat for the warmmer waters. Tossed a few blades and a few cranks but no takers. Threw a few senko's with maybe only a couple of taps so pickedup the trusty drop-shot and scored on two nice smallies against the walls in 35-45 feet. Moved off towards the dam area and only managed a small dink, started to cruise the 'Miricle Mile walls and hit on another nice smallie. Not bad but still no Large's. Headed deep looking but still no takers. Called it a day early. Wind was coming up and it was cooler than normal today. Crazy jet-skiers were clear back past the Vasquez sign and I saw a ranger escorting two of them out. Will never learn I suppose. More skiers out because of the wammer water and it was pretty choppy.
City: SMTips: Not much on the top yet. Give it a few more weeks.
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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Water Temp: 72-74
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Had a tourney with my son and I just 1 of 25 boats. Lake still shows signs of algae boom after a month or so. We started cranking to the left of the Dam and picked up 2 small mouth, then went to the dam it's self and picked up 2 large mouth. after that went up Lopez arm to one of my favorite spots and the bite was on. We caught well over 30 keepers within 3hrs between 2-3 lbs.all on cranks. No major big fish, but our fingers were ate up by the end of the day. We finished with 12 lbs. and it was the best day I've had for numbers of fish in a long time. My son's 14 yrs old and it was his best day on the water by far. After the tourney (12pm) I took my wife and my son's friend back out and we picked up another 20 keeper fish again, well over a 50 fish day by far. All cranks very little worm and jig fish, although we didn't fish them that much.
City: BakersfieldTips: Bluetruce Norman deep little N,sun craw worked the best. Look for flats with shad and deep water. The fish are taking the whole bait and you Know it.
Friday, June 20th, 2008
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Water Temp: 71
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Lopez Open Summary --
A great turnout to this years Lopez Open with 17 boats on hand to share in the prizes. Winners in with 17+ and big fish winners with a just under a 6 pounder to gather in the cash awards. Weather turned out great compaired to the day before with wind coming in around 10ish but calmed down towards noon to make the ending day worth a few more pounds to some. Jigs, darter heads, dropshot and blades were taking fish today with many bringing in limit bags.
A HUGE thanks to all that offered the goodies to raffle off with some very sought after prizes in the $150 to $500 range. A very special thanks to Royer Marine for the gift and for brining some nice rides for all to look at and to Tackle Warehouse for once again offering some great prizes and a very nice grand prize worth over $500.
A most appreciated thanks again to all staff of Lopez Lake for being there early to wash boats and get us all on and off the water and to help make this years Open a huge succsess. Great Job!
Gold Coast Bass next meet is again at Lopez this coming Saturday.
City: SM
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: JOSH -- Entry fee is $100 PER BOAT. Be there at 5AM as we want to get everybody in and ready to go bt NLT 6:45
Bob
Gold Coast Bass VP
City: SM
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Water Temp: 61
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A day to practice at the Lopes -- Early start at 6AM and NO ONE was checking boats! I asked the Ranger as I was alreay tagged, but he said there would be someone at the dock. Nada! No one around at the dock launch so I hesitated a little and waited. Two other boats arrived and did the same. After about 25 minutes, we all put in the water and parked our tow rigs.
Wind came up by maybe 6:50 or 7 not real bad but as the Lopes goes, be prepared. Lots of green top layer in the back past Vasquez almost like the back end 'turned over'. Nada on anything on the screen in the back and I worked the stickups with tops and cranks and chatter jigs with no takers. Headed towards Vasquez and hit the east side of the walls with spinners, cranks, jigs, senkos and creature baits with absolutly no hits on any of my fav bait combos. Wind increasing by 8:30 and I started tossing rip baits. By 10:15, I headed back to the marina and hit the south end with still no takers or hits. Frustrated as the wind picked up and I was having fits holdibng the boat so I trailered it and headed to the decon station for a new tag.
NOTE!! No more releasing bilge water on the ramp! Read the SIGNS.
City: SMTips: Terrible day!
Friday, April 18th, 2008
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Water Temp: 62
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: My partner and I made it through the inspection the inspection is not bad just make sure your boat is dry and you have nothing to worry about.We launched at about 7:00A.M started off on main lake points picked up a few keepers on plastics and chatter baits then we went up wittenberg arm nothing so we ran down to lopez arm and picked up a few more I broke off a big one but had fun.
City: TaftTips: We had to fish slow i think there was a cold front that came through so we had a tough bite but fish slow in about 15" foot of water.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: to time to fish. Try Lucky Craft Crankbaits along the bank across from the launch ramp. Also cranks and jerkbaits on rock wall just as you come out of the Arroyo Grande arm.
City: Asheville -
Water Temp: 55-58
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: well sadly no one on here was able to leave me a tip about fishing this lake...
i did make the trip out there, the bite was hard to come buy for me and the wind on friday was pretty tough, sat and sun were much better but the bite was still tough
i mainly work spinners and landed a few on white/chartuse but nothing on worms nore jigs
talked to a few other bass guys they said they were having it hard out there too...
people were catching them on live baits, maybe i should of work the jigs and worms a bit longer and harder! also tried drop shot a little for nada!
if you are new to this lake be ready to learn how to fish with wind almost got pushed up agiansta steep all shoreline, luckly my net was readyly handy and a few hard push agianst the wall allowed mt to rush ot my trolling motor and power away if not for that i would of had a unwanted suvineer from the lake...Tips: mark alot of fish holding in the 20-25 foot of water seems like they will come shallow to feed in schools... spinner first then if no action go right to your jigs and worms for slow presentation - thats what i wish i would of done more of
Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: hi guys will be new fishing here! just like some tips if you guys can oofer up some for a new guy to this lake.
not spots just what lures works there and colors thanks!
City: north cali
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
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Water Temp: upper 50's
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Well, you know the other name for this lake 'BLOWPEZ'.
Wind - cold - wind - cold. Bite -- NADA! Well, a good friend in our club tapped a 5-4 near the marina and pretty much that was it and a few buddies also on thwe water today as well stating 2 bites between them and both took the worm but that was all. Not a happy day for sure and looks as if the wind will continue for another day.
City: SMTips: WAIT A FEW DAYS TILL THE WIND DIES
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
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Water Temp: ABOUT 50
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: GOLD COAST BASS FIRST TOURNAMENT OF THE YEAR. 15 BOATS, 40 FISH, 126.32 LBS, BIG FISH 6.77 LBS
1ST PLACE MIKE MICHAUD & ERIC HOLCOMB, 2ND STEVE FERNANDES & BRAD AUSTIN, 3RD FRANK (O) FERNANDES & LOUIS FERNANDES. GREAT DAY OF FISHING AND CONGRADULATIONS TO ALL THE TEAMS
City: SM
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Water Temp: 48o
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A last gasp dash to finish out the fishing license for 2007.... Acool morning with a slight breeze and clouds making way for the sun I hope. First on the lake this morning with an empty parking lot upon arrival. Heard that the fishing was slow but some decent fish were being taken near Vasquez on the walls in 18 to 28 feet with more fish showing around 40+. Started with a blk/blu jig and trailer bumping off the bottom near the rock walls with little to show. Tried a medium shad crank with no showers either. Switched to a slow rolling creature bait and started getting taps in about 20 feet and 30-40 foot off the edge of a point. Chatted with a few guys out on the lake and one was hitting on a drop but didn't confess to a type so I tried expermenting Finally pulled a good 3 pounder then upon turing around to get my coffee, I slipped on a wet bait and felt the hot pain shoot up my inside left knee. Well, after an hour it started to swell and had problems using the troll motor so that pretty much ended my day and I was off the water and tying up the boat by 9:45.
City: Santa MariaTips: Thinking the weather coming changed habits of the fish and they are still a bit sluggish yet. Warmer weather will help but a big storm is moving in this week and it will help water levels but will probably shut off the bite at least for a while.
In any case -- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL ---
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