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TIME TO GET AFTER THOSE
LITTLE GREEN FISH!
By: Ron Wilson
March 23, 2009.... It has been an
interesting month at the lakes and at
a private fishing club I belong to. Sometime at the end of 2008, some of
the pond bass spawned because by the end of February we had 2 inch bass
in there.
The weather has been far from normal to
say the least. During duck season we had fishing weather and at the
start of our fishing season we had duck weather.
The bass have finally started bedding so
any fisherman with a rod and reel should be able to go to the lakes to
play catch and release or get fish for his dinner.
The bass that I have been catching lately
are traveling the creek channels heading into the back of the coves
looking for food and spawning places. The water at
lake Don Pedro has been rising steadily so once a bed was made in
6 to 8 feet of water, in no time it will be 10 to 12 feet deep by the
time they get there business done.
The schools of trout that I have been
pounding for a month or so at Rogers Creek arm in
Don Pedro have started going deeper and heading out into the main
part of the lake
looking for food and cooler water.
I recently went to Don Pedro with guide
Bruce Hamby of Sierra Sportfishing to look for salmon, his favorite
species to fish for.
We started right in the middle of the
lake where Big Creek, Rogers Creek and the old river channel comes
together. First fish went about 3 pounds. We trolled upriver to Jenkins
Hill for a couple small fish. We were trolling shad from 35 to 90 feet
deep with cowbells on the balls to help stimulate a bite and to attract
the fish.
.jpg) Next
stop was up by Hatch Creek entrance where we got no action. (The next
day I caught 4 trout 4 colors deep on Ex-Cel blue/gold lures. I guess we
were fishing to deep to get them to bite.)
Next stop was up by the flume where we
trolled up to the mouth of Six-Bit Creek and found a school of salmon
that cooperated. We ended the day with 10 fish caught and all released
except a couple for my dinner.
This brings us up to the weekend where I
did some work at the club. I was just finishing work on the fence when a
school of bass moved into the shallows in a foot of water and started
feeding on dragonflies and whatever else they had herded up there. I
grabbed my rod and caught 4 fish in 4 casts and then it slowed where in
the next 20 minutes
I only caught 8 more bass. I left and went to another cove and there was
nobody home there. I came back to the cove where I had whacked them and
they were gone. Darn bass can sure play with your minds at times. I
guess once you get on them and they want to play you should stay there
and play with them until they don’t want to play anymore.
Anyway the water temps say its time and
the time of the year says its time so it must be time to go out there
and whack those little green fish. |
