JAWallace
11-24-2012, 09:02 PM
Two of us, neither of whom had fished Berryessa, launched at Markley Cove about noon, and fished to 5 pm without much action. No fish to the net, one small bass almost to the boat, and one very nice 18"+ trout lost near the boat. We fished the Cove--didn't go out on the main lake. WT 63 deg*, OAT 67 deg, winds calm, sunny skies.
Missing was the shad busting the surface. We saw four or five boils, that was it. Didn't graph anything, so we really had no targets, thus random casting and during discouraging moments, outright trolling on the electric. Both fish were hooked trolling :p
Question for the experienced Berryessa fishermen is this--do the conditions have to be perfect with the shad boils to get trout on the fly, other than random hookups? Seems 95% of the fishermen were trolling blades and crawlers 20' - 30' deep. Our other thought was the WT was too high and they were just deep today. Thanks!
John
*not sure why the water was this warm. 63 is way beyond the mean of the extremes which is usually quite accurate.
Missing was the shad busting the surface. We saw four or five boils, that was it. Didn't graph anything, so we really had no targets, thus random casting and during discouraging moments, outright trolling on the electric. Both fish were hooked trolling :p
Question for the experienced Berryessa fishermen is this--do the conditions have to be perfect with the shad boils to get trout on the fly, other than random hookups? Seems 95% of the fishermen were trolling blades and crawlers 20' - 30' deep. Our other thought was the WT was too high and they were just deep today. Thanks!
John
*not sure why the water was this warm. 63 is way beyond the mean of the extremes which is usually quite accurate.