SAN PABLO RESERVOIR FISH REPORT 5-14-12

SAN PABLO RESERVOIR FISH REPORT
May 14,2012
BOAT LAUNCH OPEN 7 DAY’S A WEEK AND INSPECTOR ON SITE
The San Pablo Reservoir  hours are 6:00am to 7:30pm with all boaters needing to be off the water by 6:30pm.The Boat Launch area is open 7 days a week  and snacks and drinks are available aswell as bait and tackle. Our last Trout plant of 1200 lbs. was performed on Monday  May  11,2012.The Trout bite has been excellent and there have been a lot of good looking Trout being caught this week. The water temperature is about  64 degrees. People  trolling are still having the most  luck using Rapalas like the broken back Fire Tiger and Shad lures aswell as Kastmasters. Berkley Power bait colors such as Rainbow,Chartreuse, Garlic  and Corn Yellow aswell as Spring Green remain the top choice of bait aswell as the Berkley Mice Tails while also using the Power bait Trout Dip in Garlic or Roe scents.PowerEggs and  Night Crawlers have also been working well.
TROUT
Jeff Menard of Orinda caught a 5lb. Trout using Green PowerBait on 5-7-2012
Nony Flores of Hercules caught a 5.5lb. Trout using Green PowerBait at the Main Recreation Area on 5-8-2012
Don Clausen of Danville caught a 6lb. Trout using PowerEggs at Bobber Beach on 5-8-2012
Tomerlin of Berkeley caught a 5lb. Trout using Green PowerBait at the Pines on 5-8-2012
Shawn Myers of Richmond caught a 9.5lb. Trout using Spring Green PowerBait on 5-8-2012
Rob Swartz of El Sobrante caught a 8lb. Trout using Green PowerEggs at the Pines on 5-9-2012
Giovanni & Jack Noble of El Cerrito caught a 5lb. Trout using Rainbow PowerBait at the Pines on 5-9-2012
Lee of Richmond caught 5 Trout using Garlic PowerBait at Oaks Point on 5-9-2012
Nick of Pinole caught a 6lb. Trout using Rainbow PowerBait at the Tower on 5-9-2012
Massoud of Fremont caught a 9lb. Trout using Nightcrawlers at the Rock Wall on 5-9-2012
Rich Straass of Alameda caught 5 Trout using a Needlefish & Flies in Scow Canyon on 5-10-2012
Rocky Mountain Rec Employee Randy Reese & son Cory caught 8 Trout using Corn Yellow PowerBait at Sandy Point on 5-11-2012
Gavino Delorosario of Oakland a 5lb. Trout using White PowerWorms at the Main Recreation Area on 5-11-2012
George Duchemin of Benicia caught a 6lb. Trout using PowerBait on 5-11-2012
Aaliyah & dad Jahno Magno of Vallejo caught 4 Trout using PowerEggs and Gulp Crawler Dip at the Pines on 5-11-2012
Jerry Barksdale caught a 5lb. Trout using PowerEggs at Oaks Point on 5-13-2012

what about bass/crappie?

I mostly lazily troll around SPD.  However, the last time I was there I took along some bass gear just for the hell of it, figuring the water was warming up and there are known pigs lurking about feasting on farm fresh trouts.  Not being terribly familiar with where the bass are generally found I figured I'd to the south end of the lake, past the buoys in the "no-gas motor" area, which is shallow and full of cover.  I spotted several bigguns prowling the shaded shallows and picked up a couple little ones, 1.5-2# in nasty weedy junk.  It was my first time down that way and from the looks of it the spawn, if there is one there to speak of, should/would be occuring around this time as the water temp measured between 63-66 where I was at.....this was last Wednesday btw. 

Other than that, I boated 4 decent trouts with the usual firetiger j-7 and some procure trout gunk.

Cheers!