March 28, 2007 Stockton Lake Fishing Report

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March 28, 2007 Stockton Lake Fishing Report

Walleye: Your best chance for walleye is the Sac River arm, Son's Creek, and the area along the dam right before dark. Stick bait lures like Husky Jerks work (fished along the shore), so do your jigs and jig/minnow combinations with plastic trailers. The spawn has not really come into full swing yet, and the theory that explains this is cold temperatures, a lot of rain and rising water have possibly slowed things down.

White bass are being caught up the creek arms (Maze Creek, Son's Creek, Turnback) on anything from jigs to chartreuse rooster tails. If you spend any time at all in these areas, you should catch fish. If it starts slowly, experiment with tackle (jigs and spinners, Rattle Traps, etc) and you will soon catch fish.

Crappie: fish for crappie in the same areas as white bass in around 10-12 feet of water with white or chartreuse jigs tipped with small crappie minnows. Pea gravel shores with brush are the places that the fish will spawn and at the upper end of the lake, crappie have already started moving into the shallower water.

Largemouth bass: spend time in the deep timbered coves. Here again on the southern part of the lake, fish have started to move up into shallower water as the spawning time draws closer. Black spinner baits have worked well for me, along with a jig n pig, or Carolina rigged lizards. As you get closer to the dam, however, water temperatures are cooler, therefore these fish have not yet begun to stage, but can still be caught early and late on suspended jerk baits. It appears when the water temperature hits 55 degrees, the suspended jerk bait bite is over. This is where slow rolled spinner baits come in handy. You may find a top water bite early and late in the main river arms (Maze, Sac and Son's Creek). With the water up in all of the brush, this will be an excellent year for top water bass.

Remember last week's power line warning? According to the news, somebody evidently did not see all of the marker buoys and ran into power lines which sheared off both pedestal seats, the windshield and the motor. Another warning that you need to heed is to watch for logs, limbs, etc floating in the lake. I was fishing with a client Monday and I noticed two objects about 35 feet apart. As I got closer, I discovered it was a log with only the ends exposed.

Marty Thompson

Thompson Fishing Guide Service

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