Lake Camanche pre-fish and tournament results for Nov-Dec 13 IFmas 2014

This December my brother and I decided to fish our first bass tournament together. Together we put two days of pre-fish together over a three-week leading up to the event.  During pre-fish we were fishing sharp drop off on main body points. Addison was throwing jigs mostly while I was throwing a spybait so we were targeting fish in two different depths within the water column. Or first perfish day was November 30th we took my son with us, got five fish, four on the jig and one on the spybait. The second day of pre-fish was December 7th were we caught 8 fish most coming on the spybait. I also has my first double (two fish on one bait) ever that day. Then there was the day of the tournament December 13th we both stuck to our original game plan targeting bottom feeding bass and suspended bass.  We boated 12 fish with our best five weighing 9 pounds and 2 ounce. Which was good enough for a tie for second place.

One poor or stupid person decide to drive there car out as far as they could and needless to say this happened.

Bass Fishing Hogan 11/9/14

My brother and I went fishing Hogan today, this was my first tip up to Hogan. But with only a $4 launch fee, I will be coming up more often. Water temp was 62* and stained two-three feet visibility. Had the lake to our self, three other boaters, and two kayakers. We pulled up and with in the first three cast we had our first bite a nice 5lbs bass, and we followed it up with 4 more keepers, we moved along the bank, throwing jigs, gitzits and spybait. We caught 17 fish 2 stripers and 3 small mouth. But one bass that looked a little hybrid like* (Small mouth & Spotted bass).

Stealthy Livetarget Hollow Body Frog Fishing on a Stand Up Paddle Board ...

If I loose a few pounds this could be my next adventure but have to say there is some great footage of bass blowing up on a frog.

Spybait

I have talked a lot about the SpyBait in my blog but I have not got around to making a YouTube video out it yet but want my followers to have a good grasp on the spybait so I created a story line for my followers. I found some footage from my GoPro of me hooking up a bluegill while trolling.

Applying new techniques to kayak fishing

Over the course of the last year 2014 I have really gotten back into bass fishing both from a boat and from a kayak. As a result of this not only have I change how I fish but I'm trying to be better at with multiple techniques. This summer instead of throwing a spinner bait, I have thrown a bladed swim jig. The second change I made was when I would usually use a drop shot I am now using the spybait. Lastly I no longer just target one species of fish (Black bass, largemouth bass, spotted bass, & smallmouth bass) I now fish for multi species.

I am still working with throwing large walking baits from Black Dog Bait Company and Delta Wood Bombers, Alabama rigs, large wait baits from Jackall and Black Dog Bait Company. These baits created a tremendous drag or pull on the kayak when not anchored. 

 

How easily one can forget

I can remember the early days of my childhood fishing with both my parents out of their bass boat. Flipping a black ring tailed worms with chartreuse tail or salt-and-pepper ring worm with chartreuse tail at tuleys on the California Delta.  But looking back at it now I probably haven't done that once in the last12 years and I'm 35 now. In fact I don't even own either one of those worms currently, I would have to dig through some old Plano tackle boxes or ziplock bags to find them in my parents garage.  It is not so much that baits won't work anymore it just some new technique have come along that works.

It's funny how quickly people forget the baits of yesteryears for the new fad bait, I am no exception to this.

I'm thinking about going and digging up some of those worms and giving them a try again. 

Hope you do the same, good luck and tight lines. 

California Delta 10/13/14

Went out Monday to the California Delta launch by Herman & Helens and paddled with the incoming tide, towards disappointed.  The bite is red hot, I caught 25 fish for the day no size but four different species striped bass, black bass, bluegill and carp. The Water Hyacinthis so thick it took me almost 15 minutes to go the last 45' to the ferry boat landing. I threw the Delta wood bomber in the early morning, switched to the donkey rig with white flukes when in sun came up, and trolled a ghost minnow iprop spybait. There's lots of bait in the water so anything you throw that resembles shad should work well. Good luck and tight lines.