Spoon fishing was super slow for me this morning. Caught my limit, but took 4 hours. I finally got on some metal eaters in 120 fow over trees. Bites came at 60-70 and fish were 3-6 pounds. They would not attack on the retrieve at any speed. I had to drop to depth and jig the crap out of it. Biggest fish came on the Lake Castaic 8 incher in the sexy shad color. All others on the old faithful Ben Parker shattered glass.
I’m really enjoying the challenge of not using bait. Still waiting to land a cow on metal. The quest continues Friday.
Fished this past Saturday morning and had 2 man limit in about an 1.5 hours. Caught 3 nice 27-28" fish and pulled the hook on a bigger one at the boat.Fished seemed grouped up from 70-95ft of water, either on humps off the river channel or right off the humps. Kept moving around with the trolling motor and spot locking once we marked fished. Worked out for us.
Fished this past Saturday morning and had 2 man limit in about an 1.5 hours. Caught 3 nice 27-28" fish and pulled the hook on a bigger one at the boat.Fished seemed grouped up from 70-95ft of water, either on humps off the river channel or right off the humps. Kept moving around with the trolling motor and spot locking once we marked fished. Worked out for us.
Good report! Was that on spoons or live bait? Good job either way.
Didn’t do anything to really speak of with spoons today. Only a 16 and 21 incher to show for 5 hours of jerking and reeling. The overcast and high wind didn’t help. I do better with metal on sunny days. If I absolutely needed fish, I would have taken bait. No problem finding fish, but just 2 would eat metal. Oh well! We take the bad with the good in this game, flush it, and move on.
James “Captain Fog” Lindler
Team Hardcore
Xpress HB-22
F150 4 Stroke Yammy Jammer
Fished Saturday morning 7/21 and spoon fishing was tough. With the cooler temps, fish weren’t as grouped up as much as they were when it was 87+ degree water temps. Down rods with live bait seemed to be the ticket. Fish would come through the spread and disappear, just have to stick it out to get your limit. 55-75ft was the number on humps.
Set up on a 70 foot hump adjacent to river channel early Saturday morning. Marked fish often and while bites were frequent, they were for the most part just pecks at the bait and then run away or pull off. Only managed three in the boat but the 28 incher we landed made up for a lot of frustration.