Had the urge to go and give Amador a shot. I don't think I've been out
to Amador for a night run in almost 2 years now, I'm way over due. Ethan
came along plus my
friend Dana, and Deni. Saturday night we were hoping that the dock wasn't crowded. I think the whole
reason
Ethan and I stopped going was because it got too busy and when there
are too many people running around on the dock it makes too much noise
and kills the bite. We show up to the lake at 2300 and see over 30
people fishing on the dock. Damn, I haven't heard anyone talking about
it for a long time I was hoping people forgot about it, but I guess not.
We started off of the damn just to get away from the crowds hoping that we would be able to
pick
up a few fish here. We tried powerbait and glow jigs here for about an
hour for nothing. After a while we noticed a few people leaving the dock
so we grabbed all the gear and made our way over. Got out on the dock
and there are probably still 25 people on the dock, including several
children, ages roughly 4-10. I love seeing parents bring their kids
fishing, but isn't it past their bed time? With so many people moving
around the dock and all of the kids running in circles around the dock
things weren't looking good. We stuck it out though hoping that the
kids would go to bed soon and we could get some quiet out here. 0200 a
decent amount of people leave and one guy came over and gave us some
night crawlers that he had left over and hadn't used. Ethan puts one on
and no more then 5 mins later he finally gets our first fish of the
night.
2 mins later his powerbait rod goes off and now we got two in the box. A
minute after that I lose one on a glow jig and while that was going on I
had one taking off with my powerbait rod and I some how managed to miss
that one too. Nice little flurry of action and great to finally get a
few fish in the box after being out here for 3 hours now. After that we
were able to get into a few more small flurries of bites every 30-45
mins. We ended up missing most of them. The fish were just biting
super
light and weren't really committing to there hits. I was able to stick
two on the radical glow tubes, Deni got one on powerbait and we all
missed a few hits each. Called it a night around 0330 with 5 in the box.
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Not the greatest night, but with the conditions we faced I thought we
did pretty good. The whole time we were there on the dock I only saw 3
other people get bites, and by bites I mean there were only 3 bites at
all that didn't come from our group. Ethan brought along a submersable
light that brought the shad school right to us which I think helped us
out a lot. The fish I did end up stick on my jig I had maybe just 4 ft
below the light, with the light being maybe 2 ft below the surface. Will
have to make the trip out again sometime soon on a week day and see if
its any better.
Till Next Time
Mark
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