I decided that I would fish this place again after a few slow, windy, and pretty much lame days last year. First cast my rod doubles over after soaking powerbait for about 10 minutes, dang it, i farmed that guy. Soak bait for a while longer and cast out again after getting some new bait on, and somethings weird. It feels weird on the fall, so i mess around with the line and my instincts made me swing on her. I landed a 17" steelhead on that one. Turned out to have roe in her, oh well, cant tell from the outside, least on this guy. Stayed slow the rest of the day, and we each (3 in the group) ended with 1, two of which were steelheads, and one nice 16.5" rainbow. I had bigfish, so collecting a few bucks was nice. Its amazing the fight these natives have compared to the stockers, and oh the colors! Unfortunatly, mine didnt fight very hard for some reason, but it was fun. All fish caught on rainbow powerbait.

Joel

Joel,
Where were you able to access the water from? I've driven around Whale Rock, but it's covered with No Tresspassing signs. How'd you get down there? Thanks

B-Corb

Where is whale rock? By what big city?

Tight Lines,
Jason Huckeba

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Whale Rock is immediately east of Cayucos, Ca. Cayucos is a little beach town just north of Morro Bay. It's my favorite beach town along the central coast but I've never tried the fishing at Whale Rock Reservoir. Maybe I'll give it a try next time we head over to the coast to escape the Bakersfield heat.

I dont know the name of the road that leads into it, but you take the right hand turn from the stop light if you are coming from San Luis Obispo. Follow that road up until you see a dirt parking lot area kinda thing. There is a fence there, and a door in the fence, on the inside, you will also see a sign telling bout the rules, dates, etc. I can get ya some names if that doesnt help. Sorry to be vague.