Lake Amador 12/09/09.

Haven't taken a day off work for a while, so decided today would be as good as any with some potential upcoming weather interfering.

Decided to head up to Lake Amador despite the slow fishing reports. figured the bit of rain and colder weather might spark the fish into a bite.

Left home around 5:30. it was COLD!  my car was frosted over.


I got there around 7:30 and noticed there were few people around.  I finally got on the water around 8 and saw this unsavory character floating around:


Just kidding, that is Ron and he is an Amador regular, great fisherman.  He had already caught 6 by the time i met up with him.

The rest of the day was a slow pick, every time i thought i had the fish figured out they changed their mind on me.  I ended up with three kept, 3 lost, and several missed hits.  All three fish I lost were due to broken line, mostly on the strike.  I guess 2lb test is not very good for trolling.  they smack me and then pop!  next time i'll probably stick with 6 all the way.

two fish on a pink/white 3" grub
1 on a power worm.

everyone i talked to seemed to do about the same, except for Ron.  He got all 8 of his on orange F7 rapalas.

all of my fish were nice sized though:
17, 19 and 20 inches.  the biggest was probably around 4lbs. maybe more but I tend to underguesstimate anyways.

fooled around for bass for a bit but couldn't find any willing takers.

here are some additional pics:
First fish 17":



Second fish 19.5":



Man the weather was rough today!


The results:


Big fish of the day!

Good call on taking the sunny day off and nice catches.  jim

Nice Rainbows!  Thanks for the report and pictures Ben.

Good work Ben. 

Right on, Ben - thanks for the report and pics and WTG!  Ron looks like he's ready for anything on his little frigate.   

Dam it was cold today, WTG on getting out there, some nice fish too, love the "frigate" shot, what all is he hauling around out there?

Great report and pics for those of us who didin't fish today,,,

Nice bows!
Where did you launch? Is there a day use fee?
thanks!

WTG Ben, Nice Bows
I love trolling for trout.

Nice bows!
Where did you launch? Is there a day use fee?
thanks!

I launched at the ramp. Amador is a pay to play lake, and costs around 20 bucks to fish. I got off cheap yesterday because the concessionaire only charged me the float tube fee rather than the normal boat price.

The fishing was slow by amador standards.

Great report Ben, and I love the pink lip grippers!

Nice rainbows Ben. Congrats!

Jedmo

Nice squaretails! I love the colors on those fish.

I have had great luck with a small black and silver broken back rapala, or even trolling a yellow and red dot/ with silver blade panther martin.  Give them a try next time and you will be successful, I promise, and I don't promise very often.

Rich, I've done pretty well at amador in the past.  I don't think the fish are as picky as people think they are. 

they are just stupid, plain and simple.  i snagged another one in the back while trolling..i mean trolling around 1.2mph slow!  how dumb could they be?

i had about 3 or 4 short strikes as well as the lost fish.  even the big one that i got just barely tap tap tapped the grub and i got him on the very tip of his lip.  i think the sun was a bit too bright for them and made them skittish even with 100ft+ setbacks.

nice job ben. those fish look real fat too. man... those pink lip grippers make me cringe a bit. but... you da' man...

freddie