Round Valley here I come

[briansnat]

Thanks again for the advice. Looking forward to using much of it.

[jimmythegreek]

you will have no problem running all your lines, Im no pro and can run 4 boards and 2 lines per downrigger for a total of 8 no problem. Its not like lake ontario where it gets nuts, if yo happen to hook up the biggest pain is resetting the lines. Personally I would run ur lead cores off the stern and which ever way u are gonna troll run 2 boards on the same side pushing up on the shoreline, thats where they are, at least the big girls. Lead core is tuff to feel when u have alot out and there are lakers involved, as andy would say they feel like wet rags

[briansnat]

Well so much for high hopes. I spent one morning after bass. As someone told me here, look deeper for them so I was in 20-40 feet with a jig and Carolina rigged plastics of various colors and forms. I also tried the shallows for ha-has.

Yesterday I trolled for 6 hours straight with four lines in the water. 2 leadcore and two on mono. I varied the depth and speed throughout the day, but at one point I actually got hung up on the bottom with the lead core in 80 feet of water so I was definitely in laker territory with that one.

My only fish was a good sized rock bass tossing a buzzbait at 4:30 am. It was so big I thought it was a smallie at first. Had to be 10 inches.

I don't feel so bad. I talked to a lot of other fishermen over the weekend and not many caught a thing. The guy camped next to us was out a lot and said the only fish he caught was a bass near the boat launch when he was waiting for his wife to show up.

Oh well back to the drawing board.

[AndyS]

WOW. Maybe a bit early for night rainbows but that could have been a back up plan. I wonder if tossing for bass in the dark would have paid off ? Well, you had great weather. That crystal clear water can be a tough nut to crack.

[briansnat]

Originally Posted by AndyS

WOW. Maybe a bit early for night rainbows but that could have been a back up plan. I wonder if tossing for bass in the dark would have paid off ? Well, you had great weather. That crystal clear water can be a tough nut to crack.

It was a nice weekend, fish or no fish. Got some very heavy rain on Sat, but it was short lived and a few minor showers. Then there was the group of campers in a nearby site who thought blasting Polish techno music on a boom box at 10 pm was appropriate for a state park campground. My wife and I were about to confront them when someone from another site told them to quiet down. The music was turned down, but they partied into the wee hours. I woke up at 4 am to "use the tree" and they were still going. I think someone in authority had a word with them because they were so quiet the next night I thought they were gone, but they were still there. Or maybe they were still too hungover to do anything more than whisper.

I tried some casting from shore in the dark and only landed the aforementioned rock bass. While trolling I was marking fish at all depths but they seemed most concentrated at 10-20 feet so I made sure I had at least 2 of my lines in that zone.