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brian | Sat Jan-18-03 07:01 PM |
Charter member
2409 posts
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#7768, "January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
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After some backseat juggling I ended up on Matt's boat so that Cameron could pre-fish unbothered. Matt, Becky and I got to the lake at around 7:30. We saw tons of bedfish but not a single one was locked on. It was kind of frustrating to see so many sight fish and then have every single one of them bail when you tried to fish em. Reminded me of when I used to try to catch the cruising fish at Cachuma back in the day. We had faith that we would find at least one fish that was catchable so we kept on looking, throwing trout plugs every now and then. Occasionally we'd hit a deep spot and throw big hammer, dropshot and worms. We had absolutely no interest for most if not all of the morning until we came onto a wolfpack of about 7 to 10 fish, biggest about 6 or 7lbs. Matt pitched a dropshot to one of them and miraculously got it to actually bite. He lost the fish, but at least we had a bite. The afternoon was same old, same old, tons of non-committed bedfish and not a bite on anything else. We eventually came to the conclusion that we needed to fish deep so we hit a couple spots for no love and then we ran to this little pocket where Matt caught two fish on back to back casts with a worm. This was at around 3:00 or 3:30. Continued down that bank and I broke off my worm so while I was retying I decided to put on an oxblood/red rather than the cachuma crusher that I was fishing, with the hopes that it would better immitate Matt's worm :-) Sure enough after one or two casts I get a tap tap but the fish doesn't load up. I took strike one on that one. A few minutes later it's time to go and Matt says last cast. Sure enough, on the last cast of the day I stick it to a 12"er. Not a toad, but gratifying none the less. This makes two trips in a row that I haven't been skunked, this is unbelievable. I'll try to keep the streak alive on monday. Pictures should be forthcoming from Matt. -Brian
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RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Taylor,
Jan 18th 2003, #1
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
brian,
Jan 18th 2003, #2
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
socalfrogger,
Jan 20th 2003, #3
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Matt Peters,
Jan 20th 2003, #5
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Matt Peters,
Jan 20th 2003, #4
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Taylor,
Jan 20th 2003, #6
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
socalfrogger,
Jan 20th 2003, #7
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Taylor,
Jan 20th 2003, #8
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
socalfrogger,
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RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Matt Peters,
Jan 20th 2003, #12
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
muskyman,
Jan 20th 2003, #10
RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
Matt Peters,
Jan 20th 2003, #11
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muskyman,
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RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir,
socalfrogger,
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Taylor | Sat Jan-18-03 07:22 PM |
Member since Nov 12th 2002
44 posts
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#7770, "RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
In response to Reply # 0
Sat Jan-18-03 07:22 PM by Taylor
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Good going! By the time I got there(12:00) the wind sort of came up in the areas I was fihsing so I couldn't do the sight fish thing, besides I was fishing 50-70ft. I'll give it a few more weeks for those bed fish to be locked down. Cant wait. Damn, I should have said hi but I really wasn't sure if it was was Matt or not. I take it you were in the truck? Good job and I'll see you out there some day.
Tight Lines!!!
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Taylor | Mon Jan-20-03 02:26 PM |
Member since Nov 12th 2002
44 posts
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#7787, "RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
In response to Reply # 4
Mon Jan-20-03 02:27 PM by Taylor
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Yeah dude, I knew it was you; I should have said hi. I'm surprised you didn't get any off the Eagle. For me lately fishing deep on structure has been the hot ticket; not exactly hot but I have been hooking up. All the fish I've caught have been good sized keepers. I have found that 4lb. line and an oxblood worm is really paying off. As for Saturday, I managed two deep; not all that bad considering I got there at 12:00 and fished till 4:00. It's nice to hear you guys were hooking up. Same goes to you, anytime you see me say hi; I'm in a white with gold trim dual console Ranger(175DVS). O'well I'll see you out there again. I look forward to your pics.
Later!!!
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Taylor | Mon Jan-20-03 03:00 PM |
Member since Nov 12th 2002
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#7790, "RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
In response to Reply # 7
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I might be out there as well this Sat. Have you been going for the sight fish? If you're on a secret pattern please don't tell. One more month and those fish will be all over the bank. Time to break out the white jigs!
Later!!!
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muskyman | Mon Jan-20-03 03:45 PM |
Member since Oct 03rd 2001
152 posts
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#7792, "RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
In response to Reply # 0
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Hey I was there too, I have a Tracker Pro V-17 with a 90hp Tohatsu, I probably saw you. Man, those bass were hitting good that day, too bad they were so deep. We were killing them on the troll while trolling for trout. I found that every spot we found the fish stacked vertically on the graph, they would be bass. Is this generally true ? Whenver we found fish scattered through out the screen, they would be trout. Any logic to this ? I learned how to needle bass that day too, the guy at the dock showed us which was cool as most of the fish we caught were 35-55 feet deep. Got any tips for the catfish in there ?
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muskyman | Mon Jan-20-03 09:17 PM |
Member since Oct 03rd 2001
152 posts
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#7802, "RE: January 18, San Vicente Reservoir"
In response to Reply # 11
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I was trolling the TD Vibrations in the suspending model, the color was blue & silver. We were trolling 2.2 -2.5 mph on 12 -15 leadcore with a 20 foot leader of 10 lb test. Those TD vibration baits are so deadly, they send the typical rattle trap to shame. I have done really well in some events on them. I think we were getting down about 30 feet down with the lead we had out but it is hard to guage with leadcore. I no longer fish events so trolling works just fine for me, now I know why they don't allow it !
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