Made the trip back out to Amador to give it another go. Hoping to be
able to get a 5+lber out of there. Its been a while since I've caught a
trout that big. My buddy Elijah came along with me today. We got on the
water just before 0700 right as the sun was coming up. Set out the rods
and began the troll. Right in front of the spillway I get a huge grab on
a pink hoochie.
Picked
up the rod and this fish some weight on him. I get the fish next to the
boat and we can see it is a solid 5lb fish or so. Get the fish close to
the net and just before Elijah can get the net around him my line
snapped. NOOOO! Damn that sucks, but nothing I can do about it now.
Kept the troll going, but didn't get anymore love doing so. Made our way
back into Jackson where we did well last week. I tossed a Kastmaster
around and Elijah was throwing a new lure I found at bass pro called a
Tasmanian Devil.
Kind of a spoon style bait we were hoping to see if it would work or
not. Sure enough maybe 5 mins into us casting he sticks one and takes
the skunk off of the boat, it even had a tag on it. Nice way to
start
the day. Maybe two cast later Elijah sticks another one. We're on em
and kept the boat on the spot. I threw a powerbait rod out and that took
all of 10 seconds to get hammered after it hit the water. Tossed it
back out after getting that one and the same results happened.
Just like that about 10 mins into this area we've got 4 in the box.
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Stayed here for a couple of hours and we were able to stick a few more
on powerbait along with missing several other bites. That did die off
for us after a while though so we tried trolling around for a bit again
to no more avail. Back in Jackson again trying to finish off our limit.
We did manage to stick a couple more on Powerbait, but they didn't want
to hit the
spoons
at all. The bite was getting slower and slower, the fog never lifted
out which made for a cold morning, plus Elijah and I were each pretty
tired so we called it around 1430, trolled from Jackson back to the ramp
hoping to get lucky enough to stick two more on the way back to fill
our limits. I did get one on the way on the pink hoochie again, but
nothing after that. Made it back to the ramp and got the fish cleaned up
and on our way home before sundown.
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We did ok for the conditions one short of our limit is nothing to
complain about, but its still a hit and miss bite. I did see a lot more
success from other fisherman at the
cleaning station.
Everyone who had success said they were either casting Rapala's,
soaking bait, or very very slow trolling grubs. Everyone who spent the
day trolling anything else came back skunked or only with one fish. Will
be back out again and soon, I know there's a couple of big boys lurking
around out there still.
Till Next Time
Mark
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