2010 Fishing Reports
July 22-25th--
My son Willy and I started our 4 day trip off with a full day of fishing at Loon Lake, whiched produced limits of good quality hold-over rainbows. Then headed out for UVR in the afternoon. Plans were to set up camp and meet up with fishinlund and crew on Fri. Which gave Willy and I a full day of fishing on Fri. to ourselves. Friday am dark 30...we had limits by 11. Fished back by the powerhouse. Even got one big rainbow and a 20 inch mack on our koke gear. Hot set up for Fri. was our new prototype Orange Crush Dodger, trailed by our Orange Crush Mini skirt, we also had good luck with our Code Blue dodger, trailed by our Purple/Pink Mini skirt. Met up with some of our friends late friday, and John volunteered to drive my boat and go for a nice relaxing late afternoon fishing trip. Our goal was to find fish holding in deeper water, which are fish that tend to be a bit bigger. 20 min. into our cruise, 70 ft. deep over big water, we had our first solid 16 incher, caught on the prototype Orange Crush Dodger and orange crush mini skirt. This fish set us up for fishing the deep water for the larger fish, rather than fishing over by the power house for the smaller fish. Fishinlund and crew set out Sat morning and set great standards for fishing the deep water infront of the dam. Willy caught a great limit there, again using our orange crush set up,, while fishing with our friend Jim. Fished till sunday am. Fish averaged 13 inches with the largest fish around 16 inches. all lures were tipped with corn scented with vanilla or carp spit.
Had a great time lazin' on the beach and letting the kids swim and have a great time.
Looking forward to solid koke action from here on out. Boy is it a late bite!
July 7th--Union Valley Reservoir--
The macks are on the bite and chock plum full of small kokes. we found good numbers of fish holding at about 40 ft. off bottom in 140' of water. We managed to catch alot of rat macks and put some nice size fish in the boat. The clients were happy Loon Lake Report--Loon Lake is producing nice limits of rainbows with a few browns thrown in. We have been using flashers trailed by a worm harness tipped with half a crawler. The last trip up there my clients caught limits of holdover rainbows up to 18 inches. And one nice brown that was 22 inches. We released the brown, which has always been our policy at Loon Lake to maintain the brown trout fishery.
June 8th-14th--Spent a week fishing Hell Hole with a big group of friends. The lake is about 20 ft. from being full. Water temp was a chilly 52 degrees. Some debris in the water due to the rising water. We had limits of kokes every day. most were in the 10-13 inch range. Depth 15-40 ft. Almost all fish were caught on our Code Blue Nickle Dodger trailed by our New Orange Crush Mini Skirt. Boy is this turning out to be a hot combo!! Second best set up was our Copper/Chartreuse dodger with a Purple/Pink mini skirt. All lures were tipped with scented dyed corn. We were using Krill and Carp Spit Pro Cure. Boat Speed was 0.9-1.2 mph. We had a great trip. Lots of fish. Lots of wind.
We are now offering a Hell Hole Special. 2 Days at Hell Hole for up to 3 people $500.00. Call for Info.
May 27th-30th--Union Valley Reservoir--
Fished UVR Thurs. thru Sunday. Found conditions to be just like winter. 4 inches of fresh snow, 4 wheel drive to safely launch boat. Good thing tho...low winds, but also low temps. Water temp 47-53 degrees. the koke bite is very tough. lots of boats never got a koke. lots of rainbows to be had. and the mack bite was better during the stormy weather than the sunny days. best koke fishing was in the afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. out in the big water. these fish were the largest kokes of the trip. solid 16 inch fatties. 30 ft. deep. boat speed 0.9. Code blue dodger with Orange Crush mini skirt, tipped with garlic scented dyed corn.
other kokes were caught near the powerhouse but these fish only averaged 10-11 inches. The mackinaw fishing was improving, clients caught fish on a daily basis. lots of rat macks, a few fatties, and even a very nice trophy for a young boy who has never caught anything but a planter trout. even his dad caught a small rat after the boy caught his fish. We were using Double Flutters in UV Rainbow, German Brown, Kokanee and Gold/red Stripe. Now is the time to book a mack trip. Starting to pick up the nice trophies
Beautiful scenery, seemed like christmas at times. lots of unprepared campers. seen rvers traped in their campers by their awnings overloaded with snow. a few ski boats in the parking lot that never made it to the water.
Looking forward to some warmer weather ahead.
May 19th--Lake Oroville--
Went to Oroville today with some good friends. Boy what a trip!
First of all a big thanks to Dan and Mike for taking me along on this trip!
Our main goal was to test the new line of hoochies and mini skirts on the cohos. 6:30am we had first blood. 12 ft. deep, Code Blue trolling thin dodger with the new Pearl/Purple hoochie. Minutes later we had our first double. One came on our Nickle Code Blue dodger with the new Pearl/Orange hoochie. the other was on the new Carnival hoochie. Fished these combos throughout the early morning with great success. Had an hour break with no fish. Remembered a post from the otherday stating green was working so we switched up one rod to our Super Glow Dodger Orange/Green trailed by our Green Glo Worm Harness. Instantly had 4 more to the boat. All lures saturated with Pro Cure Krill Gel. Dodgers, too.
Finished the day with a wild double that left us with limits for all. We even had 2 bass today also. Biggest fish of the day was a solid 17 inches.
Water temp started at 61 and rose to 64. We had rain, sun and high winds. But the fishing was awesome.
Best depths early 12-20 ft. after lunch 11 ft. was the hot ticket. Just a little note...we had our best success running 125 ft. behind the ball. boat speed was 1.5-1.7 mph. light boat traffic, no radio chatter, heavy debris in the water.
All in all just a great day with friends on the water.
Interested in booking a trip to Oroville? Please give us a call.
April 15th-18th--Pyramid Lake--Had a great trip fishing at Pyramid Lake with a great group of friends. The weather was perfect. No wind at all the whole time we were there. It was a very successful trip for everyone. The fishing was phenomenal. We caught fishing using our Pyramid Frog' German Brown, Gold w/Red Double Flutters, our custom painted spoons in Gold/green/orange, german brown, and red w/black spots. The biggest fish in our group was caught by Nathaniel, who was fishing off the bank behind the ladder fishermen, using our Nickle/Code Blue spoon.
March 15 & 16--Union Valley Reservoir--
Had a couple of beautiful days fishing up at UVR. Weather was just phenomenal!!
My friend Adam showed up yesterday morning and we packed up the boat and headed up for a couple of days of mack fishing. The road going into the ramp on the back side was clear. Launching conditions were excellent. There is snow clear to the water, but melting quickly with this warm weather. Lake level is the same as it was 2 weeks ago. Water temp. was 44 degrees. Boat speed 1.1-1.8 mph.
We found our first fish of the trip holding in 108 ft. of water. Nice healthy mack, belly full to the gills. Mack man caught this fish using our UV Pro Glow rainbow double flutter. This was the only fish of the day on Monday. We were able to release it with no problems. Fished till dark. Came in and found Jim waiting for us. Had a great dinner by the lake and got up to ice all over the vehicles, ready for another great day on the lake.
Fishinlund managed to catch the only fish of the day today. We decided to switch up and went to the gold with silver double flutter, which produced Jim's personal best mackinaw. This was a nice big fish, 13 minute battle, which ended with some beautiful photos and a successful release. Excellent job Jim on your personal best. Adam, thanks for your help!! Great to have you both as part of the Crew!! (Check out the pictures below)
Feb. 15, 2010--Union Valley Reservoir--
Fished UVR today. We got one fish to the boat, a small rat mack. The lake is dropping some. Conditions were great, scenery was beautiful, water temp was 43, lake was calm all day. lots of fish rising. My fishing buddies were fishing in their boat while My other buddy and my self fished in mine. we worked at pretty hard all day lots of presentations but no hot bite yet.
Feb. 11, 2010--Union Valley Reservoir--Finally able to get up and start fishing UVR for the macks. Launched at West Point ramp on the back side of the lake. Road is clear but icey in a few spots. Water level is higher than normal for this time of year. water temp. was 41 degrees. Took a couple of fishing buddies with me and had a great time. We were using our Double Flutters (fire tiger, UV German Brown and UV Rainbow) fishing in 30-60 ft. of water. We were able to pick up 2 nice fish. No trophies. Had a great day on the water. There is snow all around the lake anywhere between 18 and 36 inches.
If you are thinking about a mackinaw trip the fishing will be getting good here in the next month. We are booking for mack trips at this time.
Well a new year has started with a weather bang! Which is ok since we need the water to fill up the lakes again.
We are doing the ISE Sacramento show at this time. Jan. 21st thru the 24th. After that we have a few days off then headed up to the Chetco River to do some steelhead fishing for a few days. Once we get back from that trip we will be fishing UVR for the mackinaw.
Be sure and check out our new tackle. We have the new Code Blue products that are working extremely well.
Fishing Reports for 2009
Crystal Basin Report--Sorry we're a little slow getting these reports updated. The fishing just hasn't picked up until the last week or so. With that last late heavy rain, all of the lakes filled up fast and has provided the fish with alot of extra food. The good thing is all of the lakes in the Crystal Basin Area are full!!
Loon Lake--Just went up 5/29/09 and fished with clients for the first time this season.
Campground and boat launch is open. Lake is full.
Water temp was 54 degrees. Fishing was fantastic, quality holdovers dominated the action today. Clients were able to get quick limits, size average 12-18 inches. the best set up today was our #14 micro flasher with a firetiger worm harness tipped with half a crawler, top water down to 30 ft. the larger fish were holding in 20-30 ft. fish are feeding heavy on the red plankton and black ants. These fish were a blast to catch on ultra light rods and ultra light tackle. Right now the small flashers are working fine.
Big Caution Sign Here.....
Lake is extremely full, many many many many boulders just inches below the water all over the lake. Look for off color yellowish water, which usually is a big boulder lurking. Stay in the deep blue water and keep it slow a cautious.
Union Valley--5/19-5/22--The kokanee fishing is getting a slow start.
We had 3 boats with full crews working hard, fished the entire lake looking for those mysterious kokes, all boats had about the same success, 1-2 kokes and lots of rainbows per boat per day. My clients caught the 2 biggest kokes of the trip were a 17 and 18 inch hookjaws. All other kokes were 8-10 inches. Threw every thing in every possible combination at them, the number one producer on all of the boats was our nickle blue prism dodger with our pro glow uv rocket red worm harness. This is probably due to the fact that the red plankton hatch is in full bloom, about 8-10 inch layer all over the lake, all of the kokes we caught were stuffed full of the stuff. caught alot of rat mack fishing for the kokes.
Maybe the bite will improve in another week to 10 days when the plankton quites blooming.
water temp. 59-61 degrees, heavy pollen on the water still alot of debris floating on the lake.
Hell Hole Report Provided by Dan--
Fished Hell hole today with a nieghbor friend for the first time and had a great day with a new fishing buddy.Fish were all caught on Ken's Custom tackle watermelon slim dodgers and green glow hoochies with just as many on watermelon worm harness. Fish were all caught between 17 and 23ft otw. Used corn colored in magenta color. Two limits bought home with fish running between 12 to 15 in. Lake is 4ft from full. It came up a foot between 7:30 am and 3:30 pm.
Lake Berryessa Report--5/6-5/7--
Headed off the mountain, down into the valley to spend some time fishing with my buddy Willbilly, and my son Willy.
Fishing was not red hot but we manged to catch a few.
Our best depths was 30-40 ft. speed 1.1-1.2 mph. set back 75 ft.
Our copper/chartruese, copper/purple and glow watermelon was the best choice for dodgers. Lures pink, pink/green or purple bug, pink/purple mini skirt, Willbilly's best lure was the green glow premium hoochie.
Kept some bleeders and some eaters. Too many fish to keep track of numbers. Lots of Rainbows (lots and lots)
All in all a great trip. We all had a great time!
p. s. purple corn with garlic scent was the ticket for us. (we use the BaddAss Bait uv dye in magenta.)
Flaming Gorge Trip June 19-24th.--
Fished the gorge with my Dad & good friend Samm. 6 days of non stop fun and action. Although many say the fishing was slow or spotty, in my book it was just top notch.
Arrived Friday the 19th to cold winds, rain, hail, you name it. Fished 3 hrs Friday for 2 fish. Not a big start but got Dad and Samm warmed up. Sat. Samm was up and ready to go fishing at 2:40 am. Hard to get that man to slow down. You certainly can't sleep in when he's around. Hit the water at dark thirty limits by 1 pm. 3-4 lb fish, all heavy slabs, very agressive fish! Not big numbers, but large fish. My dad & Samm both stated they would rather catch a 4 lber than 10 littles ones. Boy it that the truth!!!
Water temp. was 64 degrees. Visability was 12 ft. or so, best boat speed was 1.2-1.7 depths 40-60 ft. The lake was very full. Lots of water all around the area.
Our hot setups--Our copper/chart dodger with our purple pro glow uv spinner cuaght 80% of our fish. never took it off the pole.
Our Copper/Crush glow dodger with our pink/purple mini skirt.
New purple dodger with our new pink wizzard hoochie.
One of the largest kokes of the trip came toplining our curved blade flasher #13 trailed by a custom spinner in pink & orange that my wife tied up for me. These flashers were a big hit for the Bows too!!! They are a must have in my tackle box. Don't let anyone tell you that flashers don't work for kokes. They Love em!!
Your are not allowed to use any live bait or corn at the gorge so we were tipping all our lures with Berkley power maggots soaked in pro cure garlic, and dodgers were sparyed with garlic scent.
Definitley a dodger & spinner bite. Hoochies a close 2nd and the color was purple, purple, purple.
We also caught and released alot of rat macks, too many to count, all on kokanee gear.
Our biggest fish was just over 4 lb. Dad, Samm and myself all brought home limits of 4 plus lbers. 3 ea. plus 1 fat rainbow a piece.
We ate fish till we were tired of it. 6 days of non stpo fun and action. The scenery was fabulous and so was the company there at the KOA in Manila, where we were staying. Top Notch Place by the way!!
Here are a few pictures of our fish.
  
Now is a great time to book a trip for kokanee and mackinaw.
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If you have a good fishing report to submit, please email it to us and we will post it.
Just a few of our Pyramid Lake Cutthroats, April 2010
  
Union Valley Reservoir March 15 & 16, 2010
 
  Loon Lake Limit 5/29/09
Ken's Pyramid Fish
  Tammi's Pyramid Fish
Loon Lake Limit 5/29/09
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Tony Phelps caught this nice Mack at Union Valley 2-29-08 ......................Wilson caught this Mack at Union Valley 2-15-08
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Tammy and her Folsom Kings ........................................Dan and one of his Folsom Kings |
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Union Valley Mackinaw 35 inch 18lb. 4-29-06....................Union Valley Mackinaw 35 inch, 17 1/2 lb. 4-28-06 |
Union Valley Reservoir "Big Mack" 39 inches and 23.3 lbs. Excellent Job Dave!! May, 2006 |
Union Valley Reservoir Mack 19.5 lbs. Good Job Jeff!! May, 2006 |
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