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.