Stockton State Park trip.....

[Steve McBasser]

Gary and I fished up Sac river the last couple of trips and caught a ton of short fish. So... Tuesday we decided to fish the clear water on the other side of the lake to see if we could find some better fish. We put in at State Park around 11am. When we started it was completely overcast and dead calm. I was bound and determined to learn that Ned Rig bite and Gary was throwing a grub and a worm. We both caught several fish, even had doubles on a couple of times. About 2pm or so the clouds broke up and it got sunny and bright. The clear water bite slowed down considerably after that so we decided to head back up river. We were afraid it was going to be muddy but instead it was beautiful stained water, the wind picked up and we found 54.6* water. I immediately started getting bit on my crank bait and caught some real nice chunky large mouth bass. After about 20 minutes I caught a great big white bass on my crank bait so I decided to throw my little A-rig to see if there was anymore of them hanging around. I caught 5 more on the A-rig in about 7 or 8 casts.....then it got crazy. I would up catching 35 or 40 of those big, fat, sow whites in the next couple of hours. As the sun got low in the sky the large mouth started creaming the A-rig too.......My best day for numbers and quality of fish for quite some time....What a day.