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Hit the forebay on 11-10-23 from midday until sunset. I spent the first few hours cranking and throwing soft plastics up shallow hoping a few bass were still up feeding before they commit to going out deep. I missed a solid 3 pounder at the yak and had about a 4 pounder chase it up but didn't commit.

I ended up catching adecent striper on a squarebill up shallow and hooked into a big fish shortly after but it came off before I got a look. I figured it was a big striper by the fight it had and the next cast confirmed my suspicion. I had another solid hit but missed the fish and had a 10 to 12 pound striper chase the lure all the way to the yak. I switched back over the a SPRO little John and moved out to the deeper edge of the flats hoping for some stripers.

I ended up getting a bass finally, an American shad (first out of the forebay for me) and got into a handful more schoolie size stripers. The fly fishermen that were working the deeper parts of the flats did very well on the stripers throughout the day but the trolleys had a hard time.

I'll post a link to the video here or you can check it out on my YouTube channel at bucksnboils.

Well, looks like they still won't upload correct. There are supposed to be a few decent 12 to 14in rainbows in there

Had to post pics individually to get them to load

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Well unfortunately I didn't get any pics. Went over the the forebay for some fishing with my dad but there was a nasty accident on Pacheco pass that delayed us quite a bit. A chopper came in to pick up one if the victims, hopefully everything worked out.

Launched near the doc around 0800hrs and started with shallow diving cranks. Hit a few fish but eventually had to switch to a drop shot. The bite wasn't on fire but it was consistent. Got a mix of dropshot and crankbait fish throughout the day. I didn't fish for stripers but I didn't see them busting bait anywhere during my travels.

The video is on YouTube and here is the link 

That does work but I was hoping the fix was less time consuming.  It is what it is I guess,  thanks.

Nice. San luis reservoir, love it. You never know what size striper you gonna get. Some beasts in there.


Yup, they are supposed to have that side closed down for quite some time for the add on they are doing. I liked launching the yak on that side too since it was close to some good areas.

I was up the street a few weeks ago and ran into a camper who said the Basalt was closed to camping. Said they were doing work to the dam so that it would hold more water.

Nice job hooking that one with the bucktail.

Alex