Amador 1/14/2015

Made a trip out to Amador with a couple of my friends from Sac State. I promised them a trout trip out to Amador for some easy trolling around for hopefully some easy trout limits. Got on the water around 0830 and dropped the lines in looking for our first bite.

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Saw CaptnJack on the water trolling by, always good to see fellow outcast members on the water chasing fish. We did a lap around the lake without a bite and ended up trolling back into the end of Jackson. In the back of the arm we got grabbed on a J-7 firetiger Rapala, but the fish came off of the hook right at the net. Pulled the lines in and tried tossing some spoons around the area in the back of the lake to see if we could stick a few. After about 10 mins of searching around I saw my

friend Igor toss his kastmaster in and the second it hit the water I saw a wake in the water fly right towards his lure. He didn't get hit though so I tossed in right behind him and after two cranks my speedy shiner got hammered and I was able to put first blood in the boat.

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We constantly saw fish rising throughout the area, and it kept us trying for em. Not long after I stuck mine Igor got his first of the day.

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Then right after Elijah gets his first drifting powerbait around in the area.

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We stay in the area for a couple of hours and stick several more fish on various different spoons, kastmasters, speedy shiners, little cleo's, it didn't matter what kind of spoon it was they were hitting em. We worked em over for a couple of hours until our bite died off. Trolled out looking for more biting fish. Meet up with Steve again and exchanged info on our success. Trolled around the lake looking for more biting fish, but never found em. We noticed that Steve went back into Jackson and we really didn't see him after that so we went back to check on him. Found him with a stringer full of fish so we joined him in hopes on getting a few more. Threw the spoons again and we ended up sticking a couple more, but no hot action.


As the sun was setting we trolled our way out and back to the ramp. Ended the day with 9 fish total with almost just as many lost or missed. All fish except one came on spoons and only two of them we got while trolling. Today was a day where slowing down and casting towards them turned out to be a far better method. Makes me think there just aren't big numbers of fish prowling the lake. They are probably just in schools along the shores looking for food and not out in the main lake much, why trolling hasn't been the best option recently. Just a theory, I could be wrong.

Got back to the ramp to claim a prize for a tagged fish I caught and got the fish cleaned up. Got a free boat launch for the tag, nothing big but cool to see a tagged fish.

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Great day on the water with friends, plus a decent amount of action which made for a fun day.

Till Next Time Guys
Mark