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FRESHWATER HOT SPOTS
TROUT: Top trout bets in Sierra continue to include Bridgeport Reservoir, Lake Crowley, Silver Lake, Rush Creek, South Lake, Lake Sabrina, North Lake and most of the Bishop Creek and Rock Creek drainage streams, which are getting heavily planted each week. Virginia Lakes has also been wide open on fish to two pounds, and the West Walker is very good now. For fly guys, the East Walker River is fair, but Bridgeport Reservoir and Crowley remain hot spots. At Crowley has more and more fish are working perch minnows in the backs of bays with water inflows, but there has also been more algae this week. In Southern California, there continues to be good action at just a handful of waters. Top bets are Green Valley Lake, Big Bear Lake, and Lake Hemet with all three pretty fair.BLACK BASS: The largemouth bass action has improved just about everyone this past week with surface action turning on a lot of places. Diamond Valley Lake has been wide open on topwater and other good bets include Casitas, Castaic, Skinner, Sutherland, Otay, Irvine, Perris, Silverwood, Pyramid and Puddingstone. The smallmouth action on the Colorado River has been very good in the lower river stretches and Topoc Gorge, but slowish in Lake Havasu with only a few fish showing on the points. Further up on the Central Coast, Santa Margarita improved, and Lopez is fair to good, too. The spotted bass are pretty fair in Nacimiento.
STRIPED BASS: Diamond Valley Lake broke wide open this past week with a lot of 10-plus-pound class fish landed. It is better than San Antonio Lake on the Central Coast, and it is wide open again. Both places are have a lot of surface action on boiling fish. Striper bites are generally pretty good everywhere else, too, with Silverwood, Pyramid, Castaic, and Skinner all decent bets. The Colorado River mostly slowed, with one big exception: Willow Beach. There have been a number of quality stripers from 18 to 23 pounds this week. The California Aqueduct near Taft remains pretty good, too, with a lot of three to five pounders, but weed growth is a problem.
PANFISH: Redear and bluegill bites are hot just about everywhere -- with Perris, Diamond Valley, Casitas, Lower Otay, Sutherland, and Puddingstone some of the top picks. Crappie have lulled most everywhere with far fewer fish this past week at Cachuma and Henshaw.
CATFISH: Simply good action just about everywhere. Hesperia Lake (which got bonus plants of trophy fish this week), Henshaw, Elsinore, Corona Lake, Santa Ana River Lakes, Irvine Lake, and even Big Bear Lake have been hot spots in Southern California with a lot of fish landed at all seven. Silverwood, Elsinore, Skinner, and Diamond Valley are also good with a lot of cats to eight pounds at these four. Isabella has been fair to good for cats from 1-8 to three pounds, and the California aqueduct near Taft has also been good, too. The channel and flathead action is pretty much wide open along the whole lower Colorado River, especially in the backwaters and irrigation ditches. This is a top bet for a quality fish over 20 pounds and big stringers of channels.
Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 17:21:21 by Terrence
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MATTHEWS’ PICKS OF THE WEEK
1. Diamond Valley Lake’s striped bass bite get this top billing this week. There have been some incredible 10-fish stringers of stripers come from this fishery in the past week (over 100 pounds total) and individual stripers topping 20 pounds. Lots of this action is topwater. Add in an excellent largemouth bass bite that just won’t slow down, and you have the top pick in Southern California. For an update on the action, call the marina at 951-926-7201 or Last Chance Bait and Tackle at 951-658-7410.2. San Antonio Lake would have been our top pick if DVL’s stripers hadn’t broke wide open this week. San Antonio’s stripers are again wide open and there has been more surface action than trolling fish this week. The best reports continue to be on the Forum section of FishingNetwork.net, with most of those posted by guide Bob Caffey (www.troutonly.com). Lost of six to 12 pound fish and some in the 20-pound class. A 100-pound, 10-fish limit wouldn’t be impossible here, either. For updates, check the web sites or call the marina at 805-472-2818.
3. With so much excellent catfish action happening throughout Southern California, it’s hard to pick one spot as better than the others. But Hesperia Lake is both close for most of Southern Californians (especially compared to the Colorado River) and it has been producing a lot of quality fish over 15 pounds, so it gets the nod. The best bite has been in the evenings. For an update, call the tackle shop at 800-521-6332 or 760-244-5951.
Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 17:21:18 by Terrence
Posted in MATTHEWS’ PICKS OF THE WEEK | |
TROUT PLANTS
Barring adverse weather, water or road conditions, the following lakes and streams, listed by county, will be restocked with catchable-size rainbow trout from the Department of Fish and Game hatcheries this week. For updates in Southern California and the Eastern Sierra Nevada, you can call the DFG recording at 562-594-7268, or for updates in the Western Sierra, you can call 559-243-4005, x183. For trout plants statewide, you can visit the DFG's web site at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Hatcheries/FishPlanting/index.asp.RIVERSIDE: Hemet Lake.
SAN BERNARDINO: Big Bear Lake.
SAN DIEGO: Doane Pond.
INYO: Big Pine Creek, Bishop Creek Dam Intake No. 2, Cottonwood Creek, George Creek, Goodale Creek, Independence Creek, Lake Sabrina, Lone Pine Creek, lower Bishop Creek, lower Owens River from Stewart Lane to Laws, Middle Fork Bishop Creek, North Lake, Rock Creek Lake, Shepherd Creek, South Fork Bishop Creek, South Lake, Symms Creek, Taboose Creek, Tinemaha Creek, Tuttle Creek.
MONO: Buckeye Creek, Convict Creek, Convict Lake, Deadman Creek, Ellery Lake, Glass Creek, Grant Lake, Gull Lake, June Lake, Lake George, Lake Mamie, Lake Mary, Lee Vining Creek, lower Twin Lake near Bridgeport, lower Virginia Lake, Lundy Lake, Mammoth Creek, McGee Creek, Mill Creek, Robinson Creek, Rock Creek from French Camp to upper bridge at Rock Creek Lodge, Rock Creek from Paradise Lodge to Tuff Campground, Rush Creek, Saddlebag Creek, Saddlebag Lake, Sherwin Creek, Silver Lake, South Fork Lee Vining Creek, Tioga Lake, Trumbull Lake, Twin Lakes, upper Owens River from Benton Crossing to Crowley Lake, upper Twin Lake near Bridgeport, upper Virginia Lake, Virginia Creek, Walker River Little, West Walker River Section 2, West Walker River Section 3.
KERN: Kern River from Powerhouse No. 3 to Riverside Park, Kernville, Kern River from Sandy Flat to Democrat Beach
TULARE: Balch Park eastern lake, Balch Park western lake, Bone Creek, Dry Meadow Creek, Hedrick Campground pond, Kern River from Brush Creek to Fairview Dam, Kern River from Fairview Dam to Falling Waters Lodge, lower Peppermint Creek, Nobe Young Creek, upper Peppermint Creek.
FRESNO: Dinkey Creek, Huntington Lake, Kings River below the Pine Flat Reservoir, Mono Creek, Portal Forebay, San Joaquin River below the Friant Dam, South Fork San Joaquin by Mono Hot Springs, South Fork San Joaquin near Jackass Meadow, Ward Lake, Wishon Reservoir.
MADERA: Corrine Lake, lower Chiquito Creek, Rock Creek, Starkweather Lake, Upper Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River.
TUOLUMNE: Lyons Canal, Middle Fork Stanislaus River, Moccasin Creek, Pinecrest Lake, Powerhouse Stream, South Fork Stanislaus River, Stanislaus River Clark Fork.
Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 17:21:13 by Terrence
Posted in TROUT PLANTS | |
LOPEZ
LOPEZ: Fair bass action and a good bluegill bite in the mornings, especially off the F Dock on meal worms and red worms. The bass have been best on swim baits and cranks with the best action at the bridge. The crappie bite has slowed, and some catfish are showing. Information: 805-489-1006.Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 17:20:41 by Terrence
Posted in CENTRAL COAST LAKES | |
SAN ANTONIO
SAN ANTONIO: The striped bass bite has continued to roll for trollers and anglers working boils with surface poppers. Lots of six to 12 pounds and some fish over 20 pounds. Lots of daytime action on boiling fish this week. The catfish action is also improving and there has been a pretty fair bass bite, with the some quality smallmouth showing. Carp are wide open if you target them. Information: 805-472-2818.Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 17:20:30 by Terrence
Posted in CENTRAL COAST LAKES | |
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