SHADOW CLIFFS 11-8-07

on the water at 7am started trolling a little Cleo fire tiger spoon and a little crank i just found 2 minutes into trolling crank rod goes bendo one of the most beautiful trout Ive caught to date defiantly not the biggest but the colors were amazing and he had a nice full tail, fished the rest of the day for NADA i did have a few more bites but no hook ups. i tried everything in my trout box. off the water by 5.30 (yea thats right 10 1/2 hors of trolling and one fish to show for it what made it worse was i caught it right when i started so i thought i was in for a good day of fishing but o well its called fishin a nd no catchin

Cool report, J.  That is a beautiful fish - nice great blue heron too.

 

Eric

way to get ONE! Jason!  that lake is so tiny, you must have done a hundred laps around it!  I want to launch in the back lake, find them bigger BASS on the FF and drop them down something sharp.
Thnks for the port&pics.....they plant them freak-trout there sometimes, Lighting and Thunder
Trout, in the winter.

way to get ONE! Jason!  that lake is so tiny, you must have done a hundred laps around it!  I want to launch in the back lake, find them bigger BASS on the FF and drop them down something sharp.
Thnks for the port&pics.....they plant them freak-trout there sometimes, Lighting and Thunder
Trout, in the winter.

 thaks i did do bunch of laps zigzagging in every direction, I did see one monster bass  this thing must have been 12 + pounds at least, i only threw a senko for 5 min my first cast it gets stuck on a submerged tree branch i shake it for a min. hoping to get it loose but no luck so i paddle over to were im snagged look down and theres the monster starring at my snagged senko i shook it a bit more and he decides to bite it so hard it got ripped off the hook    and i watched swim away to deeper water with a piece of my senko hanging out of his mouth, needless to say i wanted to cry  . last year i did see a few thunder trout cruising the shallows just after they were planted,

I think I've seen that HOGG there too!    at least he thinks that SENKO's are edible now

Jason -

You are trout jedi already, WTG. See you out there.  Try to make the the New Melones trout derby, we need more bay area boys to take on the central valley group.

Scott

we need more bay area boys to take on the central valley group.

We just need more people period.  Right now the turnout isn't looking good.  Really hope it improves because this has the potential to be awesome.  It's a bummer that the Steelhead Seminar is the same weekend because we'll be losing some participants to that.

Looking forward to meeting you Scott.  I love to troll for trout too and I can't wait to be able to pick your brain a bit, if you don't mind.   

Michael

Always good to read reports of fish caught.  I just found out I work less than 15 minutes from Shadow Cliffs and have never fished the spot.  To much work and not enough daylight left so I guess, I have to wait till summer or DST to try it.