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Our own Lake Davis in Plumas County, one of my favorite trout lakes over the years, now has a pretty good population of bass. I've only caught a few, while trout fishing. I know Joh Baiocchi...

I fished Davis 4-5 days in October and plan to hit the lake again later this week. I caught fish each time although no great numbers. Best day I hooked maybe 8-9 fish but didn't land a lot of them....

I was at the show all three days and also thought it was really good. For what its worth, my observations are:

1) Good crowds on Friday and Saturday. I arrived 15 minutes after opening on Friday...

I have the Outcast Scout. Overall, I like it. It's comfortable, keeps my gear in the back dry (unlike my float tube), and rows/ tracks pretty well. I do have to take my Fishing Buddy fish finder out...

I went back out again yesterday morning and fished for a few hours, from about 6:30-9:30 AM (I'd love to fish in the evening, but the traffic on 580 from the East Bay makes it pretty tough). I...

I've been hoping to see some Delta bass reports on the Forum but its been pretty quiet, so I decided to post my own report, weak as it may be.... I'm hoping some others with more luck/skill than I do...

Thanks John/others for your thoughts. I will give Davis a try this spring and look forward to it. I've fished it for 20+years, each spring and fall, and like others here are sad to see what has...

I have a question for John B. or any others on the forum who are knowledgeable about Davis and Frenchman:

What do you think the outlooks is for fishing these lakes this year?

I haven't fished...

Usually Chenille or Jay Fair "short shuck". Any kind of dubbing should work too.

I was at Frenchman for a couple of days early this week. Fishing was slowish; I averaged 4-5 fish a day to the net with a lot of hooked/ lost fish. The fish went from about 16-19", nice, hard...

Sounds like you had a great time. Congrats, and nice pictures. Looking forward to hitting Davis again in the spring.

No expert here (although long time fisher/lover of Davis), but I just got back from a long weekend at Davis today and will tell you what I found. Fished the Camp 5/ Jenkins area from 9:30-4:40 on...

Nice fish, congrats.

Nice video and nice fish, I really enjoyed it. Looks like you used a variety of top water bugs!

Tom

I've never fished there before, but Kirman Lake near Sonora Pass off Highway 108 is known as an excellent brook trout fishery. It's roughly a 3 mile hike in from the parking area I understand, and...

Well it wasn't a topwater fly, here's a description:

#10 3XL Nymph/Streamer hook
Medium bead chain eyes
Small black chenille body (sometimes weave a little yellow in too)
Yellow Marabou tail
A...

Caught my personal best bass on a fly on Sunday. I was float tubing in the Delta using my 4 wt rod and a size 10 rubber legs panfish fly. I don't have a scale in my tube, and the fish was longer...

I've been having a ball fishing my 7.5' 3 wt rod with panfish flies on the Delta the last few weekends. The fishing has been pretty good, an not only for panfish. Today I was out fishing from my...

I went to Davis this weekend with my fishing bud Ray. We drove up Saturday AM and fished from about 10-5, and from about 9:30-11:30 on Sunday. On Saturday we landed 10 in total between us and had...

I should add that the quality of the few fish caught was excellent. One fish was smallish (by Davis standards, about 15", presumably a more recent planter?) but a hard fighter. The others all went...

I fished Davis Friday afternoon, all day Saturday, and a few hours this morning. It was slow, and others we talked to had a similar experience. Conditions seemed really good, water in the 51-55...

My experience is a little old now, I was on Davis Memorial Day weekend. Very few people out there and it was slow, surface water temp in the 61-65 degree range. Lots of mayflies hatching around...

I was up there as well. Fished Jenkins for about 90 minutes on Friday PM, it was crowded, I counted 14 vehicles parked there and 16 tubes/pontoons on the water. Fished Cow Creek later that...

I'll be up there too this weekend. I'll be in my 10' porta-note; may bring my tube as we'll. l don't think we'll be alone, this is the first time I couldn't get a room at the Lake Davis resort so...

Nice fish and great photo's. Looks like you had a good day out, thanks for sharing.

Tom