the day at Santa Margarita

Dean · March 30, 2008, 07:31:18 PM

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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Dean · March 30, 2008, 07:35:21 PM

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?

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Dean · March 30, 2008, 07:37:14 PM

...then on my next cast, and the one after that, and the 200 or so after that I caught this:

TomG · March 30, 2008, 09:51:28 PM

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?

Dean · March 31, 2008, 01:08:05 AM

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

Stan · March 31, 2008, 09:46:39 AM

Yep, the infamous Sacramento Squawfish. Nasty critters, very slimy, make a mess in the boat.

TomG · April 03, 2008, 05:09:56 PM

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.

skeeterchris · April 05, 2008, 08:59:27 AM

I miss fishing Falcon lake, also Amistad, I wish I was still in Texas.

Stan · April 07, 2008, 03:21:21 PM

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.

skeeterchris · April 07, 2008, 04:31:07 PM

I guy just came in my office and said that lake was heading to the same inspection as the southern lakes, very strict......

Stan · April 09, 2008, 11:12:54 AM

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.