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Hey thanks alot guys. First off, I want to thank John, Paul, Mitch, and Zelenka for putting on the biggest BNT event to date and kept it smooth as always. Thanks to the sponsors who also made this event possible. Here's my report:
I didn't get to Clear Lake until about midnight friday night, the whole way up I knew I was going to fish Lucerne the first day. I really haven't spent much time in Lucerne but decided to just go fish. As we blast off, I start working the obvious structure (docks,trees,etc.) while kicking towards Nice. I started off with reaction baits like rips, traps, and spooks for about the first hour...no love. With the weather warming up, Clear Lake's spawning period is about to bust loose, I thought I would look shallow and poke around in places I knew fish spawn. As the sun came out that morning, I went back into some areas way in the trees and brush and found myself a HUGE aquarium. There where fish everywhere! but not all bass, there were carp, bluegill, some crappie, and hundreds and thousands of shad. At this point I found my first bedfish, a small 2lb. male locked on a nest. Something I thought was really interesting was the fact that this fish was bedding up in this little cove filled with shad, there where huge clouds of shad constantly swimming over the bed and right in front of his nose...he didn't care at all. I pitch a 4 inch roboworm at him a couple of times and he eats it, first fish in the box. At this point I told myself I can run this pattern and hope to spot a couple of big females. I found two creeks that were loaded with bedding fish but all males, saw some big girls but they were still deep and not willing to get into bed :( . I ended up with a limit of male bedfish that was good enough for first place in my group the way the bite was going. I weighed 8+ lbs.
Day 2 was an exciting day, I heard about all the big fish that were up so I decided to stick with my bedfishing pattern. The weather wasn't quite the same as saturday, we had wind, clouds, and some rain that got me a little worried. I started off with a good 30 min. row, get to my spot and started with a frog and a beaver, got a limit within the first 20 minutes, alot of flip fish. I wasn't getting anything big so I put on the polarized glasses and went bed hunting, saw beds everywhere, some had nothing on them, some had males on them, and some had a pair on them. At about 9 o'clock I spot a pair way back in the sticks, 4lber and 8lber. the 4 was locked on and not moving, the female was kinda just swimming around the area, swimming up, going down, it was frustrating. I work on the 8lb female for 2 hours without pitching once at the male.(the reason the female would come up was because of the male) I gave up on her and the first pitch to the male, whack, in the box. With 2 hours left I start my row back, I get to the campground with an hour remaining, start looking around at all the beds, all males. I spot a 3.5 lber with 40 min. remaining, I got him to eat the 6inch roboworm twice before I poked him with the hook, The fish got me all wrapped up in the weeds and a crossbar of a dock, almost lossed him but culled a 2 pounder instead . I ended the day with 13+ lbs. and a total of 21+ lbs. for the win. I wish we had a couple of days of nice weather, we would have seen some donkeys weighed in. I had a great time on the water with you guys, hope you learned something, I can't wait for the next open.
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