Stockton 10/11

[freefallin]

Since moving my boat to a lift at State Park I have been in uncharted Little Sac waters at least for me. Fished Sunday eve, Monday and Tuesday morning. Resisted the urge to head way south on the Big Sac and stayed up north learning some new water. The early morning topwater bite (plop and frog) was not too bad as when you would catch one you might catch another or two if you picked up the worm rod before moving on. As pleasant as the weather was Monday the fishing was tough (maybe a bass or two per hour) and I gave up on anything but a 3/16th oz shakey head and a 4" skinny worm eventually going through everyone I had in the black silver shad color. I did catch a couple of manly big ole' bluegills on a wacky rig with short skinny worm. The shad are everywhere especially shallow but only a few of the fish I caught were in less than 15' of water. Definitely suspended and with the water nearing  76 hopefully moving up. Main lake points, RB, and a couple of swings in Hawker kept me from falling asleep if I kept my bait small and slow moving. Strikes were very suttle with the exception of top water blow ups.  This morning started out with a frenzy with good top water bite on the bluffs straight across from State Park which lasted about 30 minutes. A couple of my keeper fish were brown and more aggressive destroying my little fragile worms on each bite. 

So to sum it up:

3/16th oz shakey head and a 4" black silver skinny worm around large submerged boulders (good)

8" Blue black plastic flat tail worm sloooow on main lake points (fair)

Bright red lipless crank (less than fair but scored) 

Plopper (good) Booyah frog (fair)

White 3/8 oz spinnerbait (fair) 

Only going to get better as it cools down.

Best.

[Dutch]

1 hour ago, freefallin said:

Since moving my boat to a lift at State Park I have been in uncharted Little Sac waters at least for me. Fished Sunday eve, Monday and Tuesday morning. Resisted the urge to head way south on the Big Sac and stayed up north learning some new water. The early morning topwater bite (plop and frog) was not too bad as when you would catch one you might catch another or two if you picked up the worm rod before moving on. As pleasant as the weather was Monday the fishing was tough (maybe a bass or two per hour) and I gave up on anything but a 3/16th oz shakey head and a 4" skinny worm eventually going through everyone I had in the black silver shad color. I did catch a couple of manly big ole' bluegills on a wacky rig with short skinny worm. The shad are everywhere especially shallow but only a few of the fish I caught were in less than 15' of water. Definitely suspended and with the water nearing  76 hopefully moving up. Main lake points, RB, and a couple of swings in Hawker kept me from falling asleep if I kept my bait small and slow moving. Strikes were very suttle with the exception of top water blow ups.  This morning started out with a frenzy with good top water bite on the bluffs straight across from State Park which lasted about 30 minutes. A couple of my keeper fish were brown and more aggressive tearing up my little worms on each bite. 

So to sum it up:

3/16th oz shakey head and a 4" black silver skinny worm around large submerged boulders (good)

8" Blue black plastic flat tail worm sloooow on main lake points (fair)

Bright red lipless crank (less than fair but scored) 

Plopper (good) Booyah frog (fair)

White 3/8 oz spinnerbait (fair) 

Only going to get better as it cools down.

Best.

 

Thanks for the report.   I hope to be there Thursday.