Clear Lake frog bite

Hit the lake yesterday hoping the heat turned the mid-day frog bite on. Launched at county park and caught two right off the bat. Then that was all. I then found some fish by pitching a baby Brush Hog. It got too hot so I packed up, cooled off, and headed to Rodman. Hit Rodman at 6:30 PM and did well, both on the frogs and the Hog. Two best, 5.3, 4.5, came on the Hog. Good evening frog bite. 13 fish total and only one dink. Lost possibly best fish of the day right at dark on the frog. Rather than slamming the frog it kinda slurped it. It pulled me and boat into the weeds, pulled line out though the drag was cranked down. It got off in the weeds and was left with a thrashed frog enmeshed in a basketball sized clump of weeds. i had a big smile on my face...
I'm gonna' get 'em this eve.

Ahhh....the big slurp. I had that happen to me while flyfishing on a little lake. I stripped my frog pattern from the shore and let it stop. One second my froggy sat their content with his little life....the next second there was a huge hole in the water. The big ole bass just sucked him under. It was my biggest bass to date. I didn't have a scale, but I could reach my entire hand deep into his mouth to retrieve my frog. Biggggggg.

SO GO GET THAT PIG. Only the big ones suck them under.

Good Luck Mako!
Marc

Hey Juan, those are some nice numbers! Any small mouth at Clear Lake?

Hey Juan, those are some nice numbers! Any small mouth at Clear Lake?

I've seen a couple weighed in at tourney's, but they are by no means common...

Gordon

Gordon, if you had one lake to pick for small mouths, where would you go?

Gordon, if you had one lake to pick for small mouths, where would you go?

Shasta or Trinity is the word I hear.

Frog fishing is awesome.

I have some hand poured frogs by my buddy down south itching for some veggie mats....

MolBasser

Trinity beats Shasta hands down for smallmouth; Shasta has been overrun by spots and the smallmouth fishery is a sad memory of what it once was.  If you don't feel like driving that far, Lake Berryessa has a very healthy smallmouth population (as well as spots and LM -- Berryessa is one of my favorite lakes).  Lake San Antonio (down by Paso Robles) kicks out some decent smallies too, and is a great place to go in late winter.  Even closer (at least for me) are the quarry ponds in Fremont.  Guys on the Bass-n-Tube site post about 3-5 lb smallies out of there.  I've never been, so I'm not sure about the access.  Quarry ponds generally have pretty steep shorelines.

Thanks for the info. Gordon / Mol. Edsel and I are thinking of a trip to Trinity soon. We'll post on the hook-up section. Hope we can get a good group out there!

Edsel's dream catch is a LMB over 10 pounds. I'd like to catch a SMB over 6 pounds 

Gordan how is Lake Tulloch for smallies used to do quite well there.

Tulloch has 'em, but that lake has always been tough for me.  Also, that place is a zoo in the summer (unless you do some night fishing -- tie on a big Midnight Special spinnerbait, jig, or a Wiggle Wart and work the inside weedlines for a smallie or two...)  I've never seen much in the way of size come out of there.  I did get a 20" smallie during a night tourney on Don Pedro (Midnight Special  )

Gordon

Tulloch has a big LMB bite at night. Not sure about smallies. Pardee has some great smallies up river. The only way to get to them with a kayak (other then a 3 hr paddle) is to launch in the river in the town of paloma then go down stream to the lake.
Jack