I went back up to SM yesterday to try for some more big ones. Started out with a bang... I didn't get a decent reading on my scale, but around 5.5 lbs.
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I retied, touched up my hook and on the very next cast... BANG! I have no idea what this PIG weighed, but it was a battle! I think this is one of Stan's favorite fish? ;D
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...then on my next cast, and the one after that, and the 200 or so after that I caught this:
What are those fish called? Did you catch that thing on a swimbait?
I cleaned my boat this weekend and when I went put it back in the storage lot I noticed your boat was gone, figured you went out this weekend. What were the water temps and was the lake crowded?
I think it is called a squawfish? Yep it ate the swimbait and then fought like a striper! I think 62 to 63 most places and not many people really. Just the morons trolling over all of the points in their deep hull boats running big I/O motors ::)
Yep, the infamous Sacramento Squawfish. Nasty critters, very slimy, make a mess in the boat.
Check out the leaderboard on Falcon Lake. Only 10 anglers have weighed in so far but Aaron Martens is leading with 42-0lbs. Can you beleive that.
Read a post on westernbass that Lopez is now going Clean-and-Dry and Margarita will probably soon follow.
I miss fishing Falcon lake, also Amistad, I wish I was still in Texas.
Me too Chris! I just spent a couple of hours sucking every drop of water I could find out of my boat, so I can go to Margartita tomorrow.
I guy just came in my office and said that lake was heading to the same inspection as the southern lakes, very strict......
Yesterday the inspection at Margarita went pretty easy. The Ranger also said that they are trying to get together with the other lakes on the Central Coast to have one system so that you can avoid the inspection process as long as you stay on the lakes in the coalition. I hope that happens, it will make tourney fishing here much less painless. They are also getting pressure washing stations at Margarita and Lopez.