Nacimiento Lake and Reports

Friday, May 25th, 2001

• By marc raabe

  Water Temp: 60-65

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished the lake rom shore 5/16-5/18. caught 4 very nice white bass, 2-4 lbs!in the early evening o 16th. The rest o the time I played around with the spots, all small, 13 inches the largest.Spots caught on various 4 inch worms. The lure o the trip though was a 1/2 oz Kastmaster! Caught all white's and a couple o spots on it.
  City: santa cruz

  Tips: White's just move around the whole lake, spots are near any cover.

Wednesday, May 16th, 2001

• By TODD BABB

  Water Temp: 68+

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: FISHED LAKE HARD OFF AND ON FOR A DAY AND A HALF.CAUGHT OVER 50+FISH.SOME TOP WATER,A FEW CRANK FISH,BUST MOST OF ALL,4"PLASTIC WORMS.(any color)ONLY TWO SMALLIES CAUGHT,AND ONE WHITE BASS.THE REST WERE SPOTS.POUND AND HALF WAS THE AVERAGE.
  City: VISALIA

  Tips: FISH THE DOCKS,AND ALSO ROCK POINTS.5 TO 30 FEET DEEP.ANY COLOR PLASTIC,4".

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

• By Bobby

  Water Temp: 67 to 71

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Three o us ished rom one end o the lake to the other or one week.The spots were hitting any brown plastic worm or tube bait near the rocks. The whites were hard to ind and Corkey wasn't telling where he ound his ish. We ound the whites around Bee rock and cove down deep. Work white,yellow and green grubs on the bottom and pick up the big ones. P.S. dont ask Corkey.

Friday, April 20th, 2001

• By Brian

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Well besides getting rained on me and my partner Dusty had a pretty good day o ishing. We started throwing T.D. minnows and 4" rogues along the banks and really had un we caught alot o ish with several short strikes. Probably could o caught 100 ish i we would o thrown split shots but oh well. Caught are better ish shaking watermellon red lake baby brush hogs and 6" worms. Most o are worm ish were caught rom 1 to 15 eet with the better ish coming in the 10 to 15 range.
  City: Bakersield

  Tips: Most o are worm ish came out o B-rock and alot o are jerk bait ish were caught in Los Tablos in the back channel. T.D. color was gold and silver and the Rogue was black silver and orange. Good Luck All!!!!1

Monday, April 16th, 2001

• By Gary

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: On the water at 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Caught 50+ spotted bass, no large mouth using primarily a rootbeer with gold metal lake Zoom 6" lizard. They hammered it. Caught many keeper size with alot o dinks. Great day on the water with best riend Matt
  City: Hanord

  Tips: Zoom lizard in the backs o coves.

• By Ron Lee

  Water Temp: ?

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Spent the week at Nacimento vacationing with amily in theOak Shores area. Fished ive days in the mornings and caught45 white bass and caught and released over 200 spotted bass including a ew smallmouth. Lots o ish below 12" but somegood ones around 2lbs also. Thanks to the tips rom Ron McKibbenwho reports regularly on this page and got most o the ishon 4" green colored roboworms and blue white Senko baits anda ew on top water. Did the best in coves o the main lakealthough there are ish all over in the back o coves. NoLargemouth caught, but warming water should change that bite soon.that bite soon.
  City: Long Beach

Sunday, April 15th, 2001

• By Bob

  Water Temp: 63

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished ive straight days mostly irst 3 hrs o am. All the spotted bass you wanted on the dropshot, any good looking area with wood / rocks. Best color was Black Grape 4 1/2" next oxblood. Good aternoon crank bite once the water stained up and the wind came up a bit. Crawdad at rap #5. Cranks worked best toward backs o coves on secondary points. Couple topwater ish irst thing on splashits also try swimming a darterhead through bait areas, look or grebes. By last day o trip water was up to 65 - 66 but rain on the way. Wished I could have ished all day every day but the wie and 14 month old at the campsite called... Also boated the narrows and made a cast or two in between beers and it was automatic with the dropshot. Basically ish were everywhere, all spots..
  City: Orange

Friday, April 13th, 2001

• By TODD BABB

  Water Temp: N/A

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: GREAT DAY ON THE WATER!!!!ARRIVED AT DAYLIGHT,FISHED UNTIL 3:00P.M.WE CAUGHT 40+ FISH,ALL SPOTS.4"OX BLOOD AND GREEN WEENIES.WENT THROUGH 100+WORMS.WILL ONLY GET BETTER AS IT WORMS BACK UP.
  City: VISALIA

  Tips: 5 TO 15 FEET.FISH EVERYWHERE THAT HAS ROCK.MOSTLY MAIN LAKE.BACKS OF COVES WILL KICK IN WITH THE LARGE MOUTH AS WEATHER BEGINS TO WARM UP.HAVE FUN ITS WIDE OPEN!!!(catch&release)

Monday, April 9th, 2001

• By David Rogers

  Water Temp: 59-64

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Fished 4/8 rom 8:00 AM to 6:45 PM and caught 10 spotted bass, 1 small mouth, 1 white bass and 1 4 lb carp that took 10 min to land, man are carp strong, pound or pound they are tronger than bass. Anyway back to bass, caught my ish on 4 inch purple worms and 4 inch green weenies, I caught two o my bigger spots on 5 inch senko, talk about a do nothing rig, I just tossed it out there and they hit it as soon as it hit the water. Caught 1 spot on down shot rig but most ish on 1/16 dart head. What I like about Naci is that even with ull moon and unstable weather the ish still bite. Spoke with a couple o guys that has 10-15 ish ea also.
  City: Milpitas

  Tips: With the weather I had ish were in 5-10 eet o water, could not get any top water going, Go with natural color worms on a 1/16 or 1/8 oz dart head and you will catch ish.Fished main body points and coves and caught ish in both places. Catch and release, bank the carp.

Saturday, April 7th, 2001

• By Joe Mazzuca

  Water Temp: 59-61

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: The ishing was excellent or two days despite the bad weather. My brother and I along with the "The Tackle Box" in Salinas sponsor a memorial tournament each year or our older brother John who let us seven years ago. This years tournament was one o our best. Thirteen teams ished through the bad weather to weigh-in a total o 109 ish. The winning team brought in 13.75 lbs. The big ish was caught by Roger Diaz (4.5 lbs.) largemouth in Swamp John's across the West ramp o Oak Shores. Most o the ish were spots in the 1.5 to 2.0 lb. range. The length range was 13 to 15 inches. The male ish were staging on the beds on the lats about 10-15t. o water. All the ish were released with a 100% survival rate ater the weigh-in. Considering the weather the ishing was excellent. Small ish but plenty o action.
  City: Roseville

  Tips: Practice catch and release. The action was hot on a seven inch power worm texas rigged with light weight. color was punkinseed. Many o the ishermen used spinnerbaits in white and chartruese. Some ish caught on crankbait in shad color with red spot on belly. Have a great time on the lake and practice catch and release so these smaller ish can get bigger or next year.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

• By bear93426

  Water Temp: 64

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Rick and I had 2 great days o ishin,monday we got over 60 ish,some whitebass eedin on shad,these where over 2#s,I got 1 smallie that was 2.10 and 1 blackbass over 2 1/2#.but tuesday was reel great.we caugth 85 ish and lost over 20 at the boat.the BIG GUY GUIDESERVICE at work.the whitebass are eedin on shad in the coves.ellis cove--little mikes cove--tire house cove--dip creek--water temp is dropin,was 70 now 63.throw any thing that looks like a shad.
  City: bradley--CA

  Tips: spinnerbaits--senko--worms-crankbaits--twintailed grubs--watch or the boils

Saturday, March 24th, 2001

• By Rocky

  Water Temp: ?

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Went down to Nacimiento to see i the white bass were running yet. Got a ew, but it was slow. Decided to ish or spots and the action was good. Used cranks near rocks and did pretty well. Ended up boating about 15. Also got a couple on a zoom super luke. The lake is near ull and the hills are green. Tight lines,Rocky
  City: San Jose

  Tips: Crank around rocks......

Sunday, March 18th, 2001

• By Mick and Tiany

  Water Temp: 60 to 66

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: We ished two days this weekend. Saturday I caught 40 keepers by noon. Spinnerbaits and rip baits were the ticket. It was a very agressive bite. Some o the hardest strikes on a blade that I can remember. Lots o chasers on the rip bait. Sunday only ished until 10:30 and had 26 keepers. Havn't seen a largemouth yet. handul o smallies and all the rest spots. talked to a guy at the ramp today that had a boat load o white bass all caught trolling white rooster tails in the narrows.
  City: Fresno

  Tips: 3/8 oz white spinnerbait with nickel willowlea blade. Burn it ast. TD minnow with ast jerks and pauses in between. Flats with scattered rocks or gravel near deep water.Be careul lots o loating debris in the water. See you on the water.

Tuesday, March 13th, 2001

• By bear93426

  Water Temp: 59

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: just a note,went to the narrows lookin or white bass.I did not see any & they are not running yet,waters to cold,troll or them around grizzy bend aera.still gettin bass in clean water-o small rock points.tri-valley aera-tire house cove-cow cove-.jigs & dropshot some spinner bait ish.
  City: oak-shores

  Tips: hula grubs watermelon-& punkin colors

Saturday, March 3rd, 2001

• By Jig-N-Pig

  Water Temp: 52-54

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: Launched about 6:30, got a slow start. Got onto a good pattern or 12-14 in spots by 7:30. Fishing main lake points, but they had to have river rock on 'em. The standard points without it held nothing. We were throwing hula grubs. Tried reaction or a while, nothing. The only bite we got going was with the hula grubs, and some o those bites were subtle. A ront was on top o us with ugly gray skies and cold wind that made the boat rides very cold. With a warm spell I think the ish will be stacked up making their transition. They're just parked o o those main lake points waiting to move up. Some o the areas that worked or my partner two weeks prior didn't pan out on this trip.
  City: Hanord

  Tips: Plastics on the main lake points with river rock. Another 4 degrees in water temp. and I think it will bust wide open or reaction baits rom main lake points back to secondary points. Yahoooo.

Monday, February 26th, 2001

• By bear93426

  Water Temp: 54

  Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

  Report: Dept.o ish & game put 6 habitats in TV cove & 12 o smith point,drop then in about 5 to 8 eet o water,lake level is about 775 eet.good ishin..
  City: oak-shores

Friday, February 23rd, 2001

• By Don Douglas

  Water Temp: unknown

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Dose anyone know when the white bass start thier run up the river.
  City: Bakersield

Sunday, February 18th, 2001

• By Ernie C

  Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

  Report: Started at 6:30am on cuts across rom ramp. Picked up one small spot crankin on point, then no more. Moved up lake by 7:30. One more spot on blade. Partner drop shottin' reapers ("Spot Remover")picked up two more clones. Ran up Las Tablas with no success. Didn't spend much time there. Went back to main lake concentrating on wind blown points with small chunk rock. Picked up ish on every point we hit rom mouth o Las Tablas back to ramp throwing brown on purple jig and watermelon w/red Yamamoto twin tail. Nothing o size, but had a great time with tight line all aternoon. All spots 12" tp 14" No blacks or smallies.
  City: Hanord

  Tips: Concentrate on wind blown points. Chunk rock. Small pig-n-jig or spider jigs. Browns and purples. With any spell o good weather, bring out the iretiger cranks, it's gonna be un.

• By Michael Zaldain

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: I headed out to the dock and i throw a hula grub and BAM! reel in a good 5 pounder . I also caught 6 other ones but they were small.
  City: San Jose

  Tips: use a hula grub slow presentation and bounce it about 2 inches o the ground every 7 seconds.

Monday, February 5th, 2001

• By bear93426

  Water Temp: 58

  Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

  Report: rick and i went out ishin or 2 days,sunday was ok,caught bass,about 25,but no big ones,monday bass where small,15 or so,but no real weight.water temp,58,up 6 deg,s rom thursday,ishin jigs slow around docks&launch ramps,dropshotin too,try shaded areas..
  City: oak-shores

  Tips: hula grubs--robo 4" curly tail worms