I fished Lake Amador last Thursday and again a couple of weeks before. Last Thursday I hooked 16 and landed 14, my friend Phil hooked about a dozen and landed 4...he swears it was the barbless flies...I'm pretty sure it was superior angling skills (sorry Phil I couldn't resist). The trip before was my first time there and I caught 5. They stock "Donaldson" trout there which to my understanding are "cutbows". The fish are huge!! We caught ranging from the small of 2# to the large of several in the 5# class. I did catch a couple of fish that had broken off some I assume bank anglers looked like 4# test. The flies that work best were large(size 8 or even 6) black wooly buggers with flash in the tail. I was using a sink tip line with 2x tippet for a leader. We were casting into the protruding trees and parallel to the tree line on the south side of the lake. This lake can be fished with a float tube as it is pretty small but a pontoon boat would be easier and a bass boat even easier. I took the easy way out
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