Hey Rob, Today I was browsing through your bass pics and As I already know, you have fished Margarita a lot. Judging by your pics you have been pretty successful. My question is, if you were to put a percentage on "catching days" and "gettin skunked" days at Margarita, how would it look? Also, I should say that with the incredible amount of rain we recieved last year and the great spawn, it is being reported that fishing this spring at Margarita and Lopez should be as good as it was 10 years ago...
Bryan

hey Bryan,
Back when I fished Margarita a lot I fished almost exclusively on weekdays and fishing was pretty darn good. I wasn't fishing just for big fish back then, and I'd say on average I got skunked maybe 1 in 20 trips? There were just a ton of 2-5lb fish in the lake at that time, 1997-2000. 7lb+ fish were very uncommon and there would usually only be one or two 8-9lb fish reported each year.

In more recent years, the top end definitely increased at Margarita and a lot more 7-9lb fish were caught. There were some really nice limits caught in tournaments there, like 25lbs+ for 5 fish type stuff. That was unheard of when I fished there.

Now I don't know. Everything I heard this year was that fishing was terrible. I don't know why but certainly the huge increase in the water level had something to do with it. What next year will bring, I have no idea really.