Mid-Lake Fishing Report

[Riverwhy]

I took out my father for his 80th birthday last week on a pontoon around the 101 bridge. The morning topwater bite was a great deal of fun. The hybrid stripers and a few nice whites surfaced for around 45 minutes just as the sun was coming up. We caught them on spooks, red fins and rogues. They took all three baits equally well but the rogue caught more simply because of a better hook set. (I'm thinking of replacing the hooks on the spook with sharper hooks before targeting the hybrids again.)

Later in the day we found the big bluegill and enormous red ear spawning in the buckbrush off main lake points. We caught and kept 19. The fillets were very thick.

The lake is very clear. We saw three large blue cats in a cove in about 14 feet of water but could not get them to take a bait.

Throughout the day we threw various baits into the buck brush and caught numerous bass but nothing of any size to brag about. We caught them on flukes, spinnerbaits, rooster tails, rogues, and brush hogs.

[Grubber]

Thanks for the report