Amador 1/25/15

Back At Slamador again to do some trout killing. Came out with my

Step Dad Scott this time and we got to the lake around 0800. The fog was so freaking thick we couldn't even see the water from the top of the damn. Put the boat in and saw a couple of guys slaying some trout right underneath the dock at the ramp. They were tossing a powerworm behind a spitshot and earing up the recently stocked DFW planters. Pretty cool to see, but I honestly hate seeing those fish in this lake. I don't come to Amador to catch 6-8 inch trout. Began the troll and luckily the fog burned off within the hour. Pulled Spoons, a hoocie, and Rapala's at 1.5mph around the lake for a couple of short strikes but no sticks. Made our way back into Jackson which has been treating me well recently. Beached the boat and dropped the powerbait in. Within a couple of minutes we get our first bite and miss it. We get a good consistent amount of bites over then next two hours with missing several of them and sticking a few.

I took the skunk off of the boat with this nice guy.

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The powerbait bite was pretty good here for a while and I managed to put 4 in the box before noon.

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Just after 1200 though our bite died. We were able to get a couple of short strikes throwing kastmasters, but we couldn't stick em on the spoons. As it got hotter the bait bite died so we picked up the troll again hoping to find some more biting fish.

Scott was able to stick his first of the day trolling a Thomas Buoyant and stuck another nice one on a white/blue F-7 Rapala shortly after.

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We tried trolling for a while and managed to stick a couple of fish trolling spoons and the Rapala, but it was slow over all. Made our way back into Jackson one more time hoping to get the rest of our limit. We did managed to stick several fish on the Thomas Buoyant and crappie jigs wile we were back here, but they were all DFW planters. No Lassen fish of any size. Called it a day around 1600. We finished with 9 in the box 3 being DFW fish that weren't gonna make it, and we released probably 4 or 5 more DFW fish. 9 has been the number for me here recently with that devil fish eluding me. Although I'm not sure if I count the DFW fish today so we can just say 6. A great day though all around. Saw a lot of people doing pretty good today. A few were still skunked, but a lot of bankers did really good soaking bait, I saw a few full stringers out there as we were trolling by and all of the other boaters I talked to at the cleaning station said they did well soaking powerbait. Still not a lot of action from anyone else trolling though. I was hoping we would get more action on lures today since there was a recent plant, but the fish just want to stay on the bait bite for some reason.

Till Next Time Guys
Mark

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