Showdown@Red

Mark and Mark (shoreman) from the Sniffer Board had the doughbait showdown. Finally made it up to Red at a decent hour 0645. Whole point of this trip was to prove to shoreman that Gulp does not always out perform regular rainbow powerbait. Actually it's not worth the extra money. But if you believe in the stuff, fish with the stuff that makes you confident.Markdashark landed 2 on his rainbow pb. Shoreman took the skunking at Red with his gulp. Either way, hottest lure again was the yellow roostertail. We racked up over 25 trout easily in the 4 hours at Red. All were brookies except for shoreman's first ever cutt. This turned out to be the big fish of the day. We even left the lake while it was still hot on the bite. Weather was great and the fish were no more than 10 yards off the bank. Trollers, and bankies were getting their share. Hottest thing before the sun really got up high was a worm under a bobber that these two retired gents were using. Then it was all roostertail action. We did catch them on other assorted lures, even down to me jigging a trout trap jig. Same as trout magnets. For a weekday, this lake got packed after 0930. If you want some easy brooks for dinner, time to go.Went to Caples and fished the far side of the spillway along the mormon trail. Fishing was slow and we ended up catching around 4 here I think. It was all Markdashark. His rainbow PB took honors again. Then it was all lure fishing with that silly roostertail winning once again. All were small bows with the exception of Markdashark 12" brown on his roostertail. After 1 hour it was time to try Silver again. We fished at the dam and saw trout rising inside the buoy line. They would not bite for anything. Mark did get some to nibble his white powerworm under a casting bobber, but no go. Then we took off down the road to find the inlet to Silver pass the girlscout campground. That was a bust, a log now blocks the road all the way in.Off to Lower Bear Reservoir we go. What a beautiful place right now. Was told by shoreman that the water was way up for the norm of the reservoir. Actually all lakes seem to be pretty much full to almost full. Parked at the first dam and fished right off the dam. The shark scores first on a gold kastmaster. Then his rainbow powerbait once again outfishing the green gulp. Then it was the usual roostertail and some other assorted lures. I took a skunking here and at Silver. Shoreman ended with 1 and I think Mark caught 4. Fishing was slow during the heat of the afternoon sun. But heard that the early morning bite rocked or wait it out for the evening bite. Another great day of fishing on the 88 corridor. Shoreman was a great guy to fish with. He even gave me some pointers for taking the back roads out of the area. Talking about windy and desolate roads. And what do residents in Plymouth really do for work? Set of pictures from Red on down. The crowds of Red, Caples water level, and looks like dynamite activity at Lower Bear.

Father's Day Adventure

Rpwlaw
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Join Date: 05-19-2009
Location: Galt
Posts: 92
Red, Caples, El Dorado Forebay, El Manto
What a great long day of fishing for Father's Day. Started off at Red Lake 07:45. The howling winds of the Sierra's were there to greet us. It was a bone chilling gust. At least the fishing was decent. Mark hooks up first on his rainbow powerbait. I came in second on my frog kastmaster. It sure was a pain to cast against the wind. We were fishing off the dam facing straight into the strong gusts. But the fish never really stopped biting. We ended up with 11 for Mark and 4 for me. Yeah I lost again. All caught were brookies from 8"-12". Nothing really big this time. All that worked, Rainbow powerbait, we stopped using this after keeping 3 fish. Yellow magic bullet, kastmasters in gold, frog pattern. The hottest lure was Mark's yellow rooster tail. He rocked the brookies on this one.10:00 we headed for Caples to see if the trophy plant arrived. Well, the plant wasn't there with the trophy trout. But we did manage around 9 fish from Caples. All a whopping 6"-8", which two of them were browns. The weather at Caples was much more appealing. Some gusts of wind, but mostly warm. What worked here was the yellow roostertail, frog kastmaster, and a super duper red/silver. Of course the roostertail was supreme again, and my super duper came in a close second. Mark once again out scored me, and he was the one who caught the browns. Lot's of fingerlings, mostly brookies and bows swimming around. Can't wait for them bad boys to grow up. Did speak with DFG survey guy at Caples. He said the trophy plant ran into some snags. First, they were out of state, DFG didn't like that idea. Second, the fish had some kind of disease. I think whirling disease. Either way, he said they were still working it out, and not sure if that trophy plant would go in or not. So it's up in the air for now on the trophy trout at Caples.13:30 we left Caples for Silver. Worthless venture on this one. The dam area was packed with fishermen. Other lots to walk in to the lake to fish were also packed. Silver was a wash. So we headed back down the hill to Pollock Pines to see the in-laws. Took pops to the forebay to do a little fishing. Saw numerous rising trout, no takers for us. But did see one caught around 12" on green powerbait. After an hour, it was time for some Chinese dinner with the family.Ended the day at El Manto on the American River for some shad. Arrived here at 1830. Which was way too early. The bite didn't start until 1945 off the clay banks. We ended up with 20 fish or so for three of us fishing. It was the usual 1/16 1" pink jigs. I did land a nice shad with a very large Cleo spoon tossing for stripers though and had two other strong bumps from shad on the Cleo. It was nice feeling some strong runs after our trout adventure up high. But the scenery of the Sierra's couldn't be topped.Here's some pics of Red, brookie at Red and an eagle. Caples, and the forebay with pops. Hope everybody had a great Father's Day.