I think thats the name of the stuff up at Putah. It's starting to bloom (granted the poison oak is starting to leaf out as well) which means the other spawn is kicking in.
Berryessa Bass
This storm front coming through Tuesday night through Wednesday will give them lock jaw for a few days. No weather to speak of after this storm with the following week warming back up.
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Winter eats heat the way darkness swallows light. The terrors of failed power and frozen stems are stymied with fire, smoke and white ash.
When the redbud is blooming the bass bite at the Lake is usually coming into full swing. I've had ok success with a fly but a 4" rubber worm/split shot and 6lb test on a ultra light spinning rig is a hoot.
If you have a float tube take it up and cross the second bridge on the far side of the lake (Pope or Putah, I don't remember which) and park at the turnout to the first cove. Carry it down to the cove and fish the point, cross to the small island then to the bigger island to the North. Fish around the lake side of the big island and head further North to a reallysmall island. That area is a huge flat. When you arm gets tired just work your way back along the shorline to the original put in spot.
I've drug a split shot worm across the bottom as I've kicked my way back and picked up quite a few smallies between the take in spot and the big island. I see no reason you couldn't do the same with a fly rod.
Bass boats will pull up near you at a gazilion miles per hour, throttle down and make 20 quick casts before blazing off to the next spot. Your in a float tube, make a couple hundred casts and slow down. You will catch fish right behind the bass boats and I've had 100-130 fish days.
oh yeah........
were fishing the spawn
-- Edited by lightfoot on Tuesday 28th of February 2012 04:35:15 AM
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Winter eats heat the way darkness swallows light. The terrors of failed power and frozen stems are stymied with fire, smoke and white ash.
Red buds are good, but the purple buds are better... Talking lupines of course! I keep seeing bass boats coming off of Lake Berryessa. Is the bass bite on? Do you fish up there with flies? I heard you can drag a big rubber worm over the shallow beds and knock em silly...
OOOOhh yeaaaah! Thanks for the post Lightfoot, I learned a lot. I've been waiting for this time for months.
I'm new to the bassin' game -- got probably more skunks than fish last year, but I guess I didn't fish during prime time. The learning curve was steep at first but this is part of the fun. And a few fish here and there got me totally addicted. They like "flies" too... I normally use a 8wt to throw these things.
I've had pretty good trout fishing in the last few weeks, even decent dry fly action, but I don't care for them right now... I want bucketmouths and bronze backs! Oh yeah...
Cole, I found the fish skulls to be pretty easy to work with (but they aren't cheap at $6 for an 8-pack). you just tie your fly and the last thing you do is slide the skull on from the front of the fly and build a thread dam in front of it, behind the eye. And like barbell eyes, they can be positionned so that our hook rides with the point up (like on the pic). That bunny/marabou leech was my first attempt at using them... caught a few good bass on that very fly last summer.
-- Edited by Bugger on Friday 2nd of March 2012 07:09:56 PM
Those are some serious bucket heads, nice job. No wonder your so stoked on those right now, I would be too. How do you like those fish skulls? I wanna check those out along with the sculpin helmets for some of my streamers this spring.
