Sunday Report

[Bill Babler]

Pays to have friends in the fishing business. After a visit on Saturday evening with James and Donna, I had my plan for my Sunday trip out of the Kings River.

Battled the fog and started out of Royal Point at 7:30 in the AM, with George and Art. Lots of hangups early on the wart and blade and no fish. Water was slick, but thought the overcast would be enough.

Switched to a Pigsticker brown/purple football with a Gulp/Alive Camo/Craw and got the action started. Fish were shallow, in the 10 to 22 ft. range, on the jig. Main lake Kings River points, and not gravel, they wanted some rock on them.

I have tried the Gulp/Alive before for deep fish using the pearl alwife. Just hated the stuff as it is a friggin mess.

The tubs of Gulp that the 4in craws were in is just as messy, but it seemed to really be the deal. I dipped our Yamamoto, Chomper and Yum jig and craws in it, and they seemed to hold onto it a lot better. They have been picking up the jig and putting it down really bad. I think this helped.

This crap is a disaster is you spill that tub of slime in your boat. Beck tried it and had a tub, dump in his boat box and said it was a complete disaster to clean up.

I'll keep using it till I spill it. "Again."

On another note, how in the hell do you keep those Gulp/Craws from turning as hard as a rock between locations. For cripes sakes it was only mid 70's yesterday and the craw would turn to stone if out of the water for over 10 minutes.

Jig fish stopped on me around 10 AM and went to the deep spots with the little purple worm. Ended the day and it was a good one with 35 fish with 12 nice keeps. Deep fish were locked in at 45 to 51 feet.

Beck caught them deeper on a spoon at 60', he had 40 fish with 20 keeps, some being those big ole grey K's in the 3 plus range.

[Sam]

On another note, how in the hell do you keep those Gulp/Craws from turning as hard as a rock between locations. For cripes sakes it was only mid 70's yesterday and the craw would turn to stone if out of the water for over 10 minutes.

Bill - I like several Gulp baits, but they're a slimy mess and they turn hard real quick when they're out of the water.

When I've got one of those on and I'm running to another location, I drop my bait in the live well. I'm careful about closing the live well lid so's not to put a kink or a weak spot in my line. Sometimes I've got fish in the live well, but I haven't had a bite in there yet.

[Champ188]

That's awfully nice of you to say Bill. Didn't know we'd been so much help. As I said in my report, the rascals were scattered from a foot of water to the deep blue sea. Guess Donna and I will fish the Anglers In Action derby next Saturday. We'll see how smart I am then.

[Donna G]

I don't know how smart Champ will prove to be since AIA is Sunday. lol Sorry, darling. Couldn't resist.

Glad you had a good day, Bill. We certainly enjoyed ours. It was especially satisfying to catch the last fish of the day just before going in. Not a keeper, but I pitched a War Eagle heavy finesse jig in the Pond Scum Perch color all around this big rock after Champ hit it with a spinner bait. I just knew there had to be a swimmer there somewhere. Sure enough, it finally decided to eat. That's a lovely way to end the day.

Wish us luck Sunday. Think we are going over Saturday and spend the night at Harpers. Their off-season rates are so cheap that it's silly to drive back home.

Take care.

Donna G