Kings River Out Of Sweetwater Launch Site

[Bill Babler]

7-20-23

 

Got on the Lake at 5:15 out of Sweetwater. It’s only a 15 minute drive from the house. Really fixed up nice but to much riprap around the launch.
I’ve heard of some vandalism there but not enough to scare off a midweek early morning trip. 

Water temp at 5:15 am was 86.5 with the air temp at 85 and no breeze. Humidity 90 plus percent with not a ripple on the water. 

I just almost put it back on the trailer as it was so bad it was hard to breathe. 

Kings river water has about 8’ to 10’ visibility and that’s mighty clear for that part of the lake. 

Threw a jig and a 6 XD for at least 2 hours with no bites on the 6 and one dink on the jig. Lake was totally full of both gizzards and threadfins of all sizes. 

Got tired I was wringing wet and jumped in the lake. No relief there as it almost made me hotter. 

Got on the stupid live scope and of course immediately started catching fish. Yep, dink after dink on either a Dixie Jet or a War Eagle slab. 

Gave it up at 10am with probably 30 fish.  All K ‘s with 2 squeaker keeps.  Every fish I caught was suspended. Most every fish I saw was suspended. They have moved out some. They had been around 20’. All these guys were 30’ to 40’ with lots of Shad balls mid morning at the 30’ to 36’ depth over deep water.                                                                               

Really got to hot and should have went in earlier.  “ Before I started.”  Won’t make that mistake again, as it was totally miserable yesterday morning, especially for the dink fest I had.

Good Luck







 

[Quillback]

It was downright nasty yesterday.  In the afternoon, went to the outdoor gun range, then walked a couple of miles.  Worked up a good sweat.