Shiver me timbers! Winter is back! It was looking like an early spring was here to stay…wrong. With the return of cold temperatures along with a touch of rain and snow, the bass fishin’, which was starting to look up, is now slow again. Brrrrrrr !
Blue Lakes – Good news! Trout like cold water. The trout bite has been fair on the upper Blue Lake. There are some nice trout being caught mid-lake from the shore along Hwy. 20. Pink and orange Powerbait fished off the bottom has been working the best. The trollers have also been doing well, although there are not as many anglers out on the water. The hardy few that are, have been catching trout using an action disk trailed with a worm. Down riggers have been set at 20 to 25 feet. Blue Lakes and the Upper Mill Creek Pond are probably your best bet for catching trout right now.
Clearlake- The recent cold fronts have really, really affected the lake, making bass fishin’ a bit more challenging. Successful anglers have been keying on tightly grouped schools of bass. Popular baits are the Alabama/Calabama Rig, S-Wavers, swim baits, senkos on a shaky head, and drop shottin”. The word is that there has been many large bass being hooked in the flat near Rodman’s Slough.
Lake Sonoma- I got a really good report from one of the areas best fishermen who fished Lake Sonoma last week. He said that the fishin’ was “surprisingly really good.” He caught most of his fish in the Warm Spring arm. He said the hot bait for him was a 3/8 ounce brown/red football jig with a Smallie-sweetbeaver 420 as a trailer. Most of his bass were caught in 15 to 25 feet of water where there was a mix of rocks and timber. His largest fish weighed 4 1/2 pounds. — The thing is, you can throw it all out the window now. The cold fronts have pushed the bass back out in to deeper water.
Lake Mendocino – The bass fishin’ has picked up some on our backyard lake. Specifically the small mouth bass. Try a chartreuse colored spinner bait with gold double willow blades, or a 4” jerk bait, twitching it along. The key is to cover a lot of water. Fish areas with a lot of structure and rocks. Stick with it, you’ll get a few. Also heard that there has been some nice catfish caught on anchovies at the channel. No reports of stripers.
Remember, a good day winter fishin’ could be five to 7 fish. A good day in the summer could be twelve to twenty seven . It’s all perspective, and always good being on the water.
Remember to keep it reel. Thanks, Don
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