I haven’t fished the Forebay for a long time. While I was in Alberta, I started to think that trout pull harder than stripers. I don’t know what came over me. Today, the stripers had something to prove. They were in prime shape and fought as good as I can remember. They treated my eight…
Its been a long time since I fished the forebay. The last 3 weeks have been spent recovering from eye surgery and I still have some blurry vision. Also, the winds have been brutal this June. The last weekends were un fishable by boat on the weekends due to high winds. In…
It was a wise decision to take the moms out for dinner the Saturday night before Mothers Day. We had a nice dinner with the whole family at Kyoto Palace–the local “Benihana ” style restaurant where the chefs cook at the table and show off there knife and skillet skills. My mom loves that place…
I had a few fishing options this weekend considering how slow fishing was last weekend at the Lake and Forebay, I was thinking of trying Coyote Reservoir for bass or even Callero Reservoir. Callero’s water elevation has almost doubled over the last couple weeks because SCVWD is pumping San Luis water into it. San…
Tuesday June 11, 2013, Vaughn Willett had a great day “lots of 3-5 pounders and a 10 lbr to the boat” He also mentioned that the lake level is still dropping fast and that the docks and ramps would likely be out of water by the weekend and that the forebay might be the only…
There have been drought years in the past that have not drawn the lake down as low as it is now. There are those that estimate that San Luis Reservoir will reach its all time lowest level in history by this August at the current rate this year. What has changed since we are not…
It wasn’t a bad day considering we almost cancelled the fishing at 6 AM because the wind lady said it was howling 18 mph. We decided that a day off deserved a chance and ended up heading over to the lake anyways. When we got there, we walked out on the dock and decided it…
It was a great day on the lake today. The weather may have been too good – slight overcast with heat and no wind. The algae is happy and my boat trailer looks Irish. Everybody was out today in force including a couple guides and Vaughn-Larry again. Amazingly, Larry who wasn’t able to cast three…
Redding Fly Shops Brad Jackson caught a 29 pounder at the trash racks at 7:30 in the morning on Tuesday May 7th on a Chartreuse and White Flashtail Clouser. Fishing with Dan Blanton (Source- Dan Blanton’s BBS), they reported another slower day from the low pressure. Another Pig comes from the Dam in the first…
Sometimes I think that I’m jinxed. Statistically, one would think that if you catch enough fish , that a couple of them should be big. That elusive 10 lb mark in San Luis. seemed to elude me this year–its been 5 months for Pete’s sake. I can still hear the advice of the old pros, “You…
With the Striper fishing going strong off the Trash Racks, the last 4 trips have been pretty crowded with at least 4 or 5 other boats jockying around the racks with the Damn Dam Police megaphoning us to get back from the wall at least 500 feet. I take my Calaway Range Finder out…
The Boys of Summer are back. Dan Blanton, Tom Malec, and Steve Santucci were all out on the lake this past week and slammin’ them. Mr Santuccci’s clients landed two 17 lbrs on the lake on Wednesday on large Brown and Blue Clousers. Impressive! I bet those big ones are on the other side of…
Fishingdate – Saturday April 27, 2013 It may not have been number one on Rick’s bucket list but i had a feeling it was near the top. Ive been fishing with Rick for about two years. He is 75 years old and a retired IBM engineer who knew my dad. One of many things I…
I went back for more this weekend just in case it was the day that my luck would change. Unfortunately it was a carbon copy of Saturday. Wes wrote today that they are letting water out of the dam and perhaps the striper fishing may pick up in the next couple days on the Feather. Why…
It been a long time since I felt the pull of a big striper. Today, I pulled on a bunch of dinks and its just not enough. Any day now, the Lake and Forebay should start getting better. Last year at this time the lake was 20 feet higher and there was timber in…
After being defeated by baitfishermen on Saturday, I though maybe I would take a friend out fishing today and try some baitfishing. We stopped by Coyote Bait and Tackle, picked up some anchovies, sardines, bloodworms, and a dozen medium size minnows. They were out of jumbos. We launched at the Forebay around 9:00. It…
Its like the Shark’s loosing streak. I just cant win one. The last 4 weeks of fly fishing the forebay has been so slow for me that I cant remember what a big striper feels like. Yikes Again today, great weather, 8 hours of good casts and nothing to show but the smallest striper I have ever…
Wow, my first fly fishing orthopedic injury. I felt it happen strip setting on a snag three weeks ago. After that incident, I fished three days on the lake and I could tell that fast stripping and double hauling was getting painful I put on a strap above my left elbow to help relieve the pain…
Its been a really long time since I had two zero fish days in a row at The O’Neilll Forebay. What started out as a day of promise ended up with only one hookup and it wasn’t a striper. While casting to the dam at Oneill, I got a really light hit on the…
I want to catch a big striped bass.by: kovacsxtranormal For the first time in years, I scored a Zero at the lake. I took my buddy Rick out and we put in a whole day looking around the Big Lake for eating fish. We saw plenty and even baitfished over a school of them for…