Lake Oroville Bass Fishing Reports

[MotherNature]

This was our original Home Lake! Just wondering if anything is going on these days.....

Laurie

[10 percent]

Hello I am new to the bass reports  and would like to speak to anyone that can give me a tip on fishing lake oroville, I love the lake, fish it all the time with some sucess can anyone tell me a secret,a honey hole or about a lure
that works more often than not  open replys welcome,from all fellow fiser people       thanks mr 10%                                             5~xyz

[Mike Cork]

Right now a rip bait (rattling rouge) in a clown color will produce very well. It's been so long I can't remember the names of the pockets but, one place for sure is the very back of the west branch. The last 1/2 of the north fork is very productive as well.

Back on the main lake if you draw a line straight from the damn towards the bridge that takes you up into the middle folk, just before the bridge there is a large bay to your left, this is an awesome area in the spring

Slow rolling a white spinner bait can be a good producer as well

[bassman28]

I agree with all Mike says and would like to add that a white Lucky Craft pointer is a good ripper. For plastics try a 4 inch Roboworm in the Warmouth color.  I love to fish Oroville with those ferocious Spots in there.  Although I fished a Tourny there in Feb and caught more of those salmon planters than bass 

[Mike Cork]

I forgot about the salmon  they like them rouges too

[bassman28]

yeah they were eating my pointers and my drophoted Roboworm.  It was getting a little frustrating since I was in a BASS tournament and not a SALMON tourny   It was still quite interesting to see teh sizes of some of those salmon.  Apparently since the planted them 9 months a go or so they have just thrived.

[Mike Cork]

I didn't know they planted more, the ones we used to catch were left overs from when it was damn up. As far as I know they didn't plant them back in the 90's when I used to fish it. They must have though cause in the spring you would catch plenty of them.

[nitro rider]

I'm local and can say Oroville is on fire, in fact last week a LM 13+ pounds was weighed and released.  I did a tourney there in March and the winning weight was 25 lbs.  Not bad when you figure 2 years ago a good bag was 10 lbs. or so.