Freshwater Fishing Thread, San Luis Striper Fishing in Fishing Reports; Fist time submitting a report but here ya go.
Since transferring up to Lemoore from San Diego I look forward ...
Fist time submitting a report but here ya go.
Since transferring up to Lemoore from San Diego I look forward to my trips up to San Luis resevoir. Yesterday I made the trek with my bud Joe and the ole lady for some Striper fishing, wind and weather was perfect, 68 degrees with a light breeze out of the North, water temp was 60 degrees. We decided to drift minnows in 80-100 feet of water just west of the trash racks off several exposed islands. No luck there so we traveled around and finally metered some fish closer to the island between 30-60 feet of water. Caught two in that area after a tough 60 -90 minutes of cussing at my obviously defectish fish finder that would not stop showing lunkers swimming under my boat.
The previous two weekends had given me quick limits but yesterday was a much tougher bite.
After getting off the lake and speaking with several other anglers while at the cleaning station it was apparent the bite was better if sardines were being used. Next time I'll have both methods covered.
Decided to troll a couple of rebel Bombers with the down riggers. Within minutes had a double down at 65 feet just in front of the dam.
The largest of the day was a 25" fish but all were very healthy and definately appeared to be in good shape.
Another friend had one bite all day on live shad. Just reinforces my thoughts that it is best to have all bases covered when it comes to these finicky Stripers.
156, (west) of Los Banos, not more than a few miles (west) of I-5. Don't know if I'd eat to many. They had some real problems back in the 80's with O'Neill Forebay, which is right in front of the Reservoir. I can't quite recall, maybe something about PCB'S
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