Thought this might be a fun and interesting thread.
In the last year, say from April of last year to now, how have you caught bass over 5lbs. What lake, what day, what lure?
I think by comparing notes we could discover some interesting patterns.


Here is my list

4/8/00 Santa Margarita Lake 5-6 7" Stocker Trout
9/3/00 Anderson Res. 5-2 10" power worm
9/10/00 San Pablo Res. 15-13 9" MS Slammer
11/4/00 Clear Lake 5-3 9" MS Slammer
1/13/01 Pinto Lake 6-4 1/2oz black/red jig
3/10/01 Clear Lake 5-6 brown/watermelon jig
4/1/01 San Pablo Res 7-14 6" yamamoto grub
4/7/01 Clear Lake 5-6 watermelon 9L senko
4/8/01 Spring Lake 8-2 9" MS Slammer
4/28/01 Lake Chabot 6-3 6" yamamoto grub

08/??/2000 Clear Lake 5-? pumpkinsd tube
12/03/2000 Lexington Reservoir 5-? black/olive jig
12/08/2000 Lexington Reservoir 6.3 chrt/blue/wht spinnerbait
12/08/2000 Lexington Reservoir 7.1 chrt/blue/wht spinnerbait
12/10/2000 Lexington Reservoir 6.5 chrt/blue/wht spinnerbait
12/19/2000 Lexington Reservoir 5.8 chrt/blue/wht spinnerbait
12/19/2000 Lexington Reservoir 7.7 brn/orng jig
12/21/2000 Lexington Reservoir 6.2 brn/orng jig
12/21/2000 Lexington Reservoir 7.0 brn/orng jig
01/02/2001 Lexington Reservoir 5.7 brn/red jig
01/06/2001 Almaden Reservoir 5.1 brn/orng jig
02/03/2001 Lexington Reservoir 6.2 junebug 6" spadetail
03/02/2001 Stevens Creek Reservoir 5.0 blk/blue jig
03/11/2001 Coyote Reservoir 6.0 blk/blue jig
03/11/2001 Coyote Reservoir 12.6 pumpkinsd tube
03/16/2001 Coyote Reservoir 5.? blk/red jig
04/03/2001 Coyote Reservoir 5.7 watermellon 9L senko

Winter kicks butt.

Nico

whew ... I didn't know Lexington had a bunch of hogs in it. I'm learning stuff already :-)

yea, Lexington is a cool lake. Awesome structure and good forage. If the water district didn't keep turning it into Lexington Dustbowl every 5-10 years (they drained all but 2% of the water there a year ago, but somehow the fish made it through) I think it would have better trophy potential than any other south bay lake. As it is, I don't think any of the fish in there are older than 7-8 yrs. I've got a really bad feeling that it's going to go dry this year.

Nico

WOW! I go steelhead fishin' in winter.

Chris

5-7 spring/april Irvine Lake--black/junebug jig and craw
5-10 spring/april Irvine Lake--black/junebug jig and craw
5-11 spring/march Lake Perris--crawdad crankbait
6-12 winter/jan Oso Res.--gold spoon
9-0 winter/dec Lake Perris--dbl. tail watermelon hula grub

That's it for my bass over 5#. Kinda sucky compared to Rob, lol!

hey now, we are not comparing. Plus you got a 9 at Perris, that's pretty cool. Thanks for posting fongster man.

Here's my short list-

4\00- 8.8 LMV brown jig and pig
3\10- 9.6 LMV white tube
3\13- 5.0 LMV RT Optimum
3\13- 6.0 LMV RT Optimum
3\17- 5.0 LMV Castaic trout

Hope to add to the list very soon!!!

My memory bites but...

May 00, 8+ at Blue Lakes on a white spinnerbait (pers best)
June 00, 6+ at Delta(slough in Stockton) splitshot reaper
Nov 00, 7.7 at Clear Lake on a white spinnerbait
Apr 01, 6+ at Spring Lake on a splitshot 4" worm

Chris

tell us how you got em, too. Stuff like what kind of cover, etc. I don't have much time to go fishing much, so i really don't know much. info like this would help me out alot. Thanks

nick