Kings River April 4 And 5

[Brennan]

Fished the Kings Thursday and Friday and had just a fantastic couple of trips for numbers of bass.

A nice guy at the ramp told me he had a pretty good bite up around the power lines past Viola. So I thought why not....I'll start there. Didn't really need to leave there for two days.

I caught just an absolutely silly, almost unbelievable, number of bass off one point. I only left it briefly on Thursday to go look for bigger fish out in the white river. Caught a few small keepers on a jerkbait, but realized I was just having so much fun up the kings that I went back after about an hour and a half.

Caught them on a French Pearl 110 (thanks Bill) and, when that slowed down, a 1/2 oz FB jig in PBJ with GP twin tail trailer. The whites were just stacked in that area as well. Thursday, with the overcast, they were chasing on top all morning. About 50/50 largemouth and whites. I have no doubt they would have hit topwater that morning. Water temp was 55-56.

Friday morning....back to the same point.....the jerkbait worked until the sun came up. When the bite slowed I changed to the jig and caught them on five or six casts in a row several different times. Now these certainly aren't tournament winning fish, but it had me giggling pretty good at times. These fish were all on a timbered point about 12-18 feet deep.

Many times, if I didn't catch a bass on a particular cast, I would catch a big white bass reeling the jig back to the boat. FB jig pattern for white bass...a first for me .

Mid morning on Friday I pulled the boat out another cast length from the point just to see if I was missing the bigger fish out deeper. Good move. I caught 5 keepers in the next 45 minutes (only about 13-14 lbs). I don't think it was that they were deeper so much as that pulling off the point enabled me to locate a few deeper trees with the jig, and I caught those keepers pulling the jig up and over the limbs. Probably should have thrown the jerkbait through there but I was catching them so well on the jig.

Anyway, just a great trip for me. A big thank you to all the contributors on OA.

[dtrs5kprs]

Well done and much appreciated. How was the color up there?

[Brennan]

Water color was just a light stain. I would call it clear, but I am used to Truman .

[dtrs5kprs]

Water color was just a light stain. I would call it clear, but I am used to Truman .

Yes, that does make a difference in your definition of clear.

[Bill Babler]

Just a wonderful report, much appreciated. Any news we get lake wide just makes this pond more accesable for everyone.

Good Luck