Hi everyone,,
Wow another post so soon since the last one.
Okay, I had two trips to Melones this week, Friday and Saturday.
Lets start with Friday first, man what a beautiful day to be out fishing, had four people on board so you now what that means, I put out six rods, two side plainers and the four downriggers with kokanee gear on them, with all that gear in the water we had to catch something or at least snag something.
Well it was not long and we started getting bit, everything was getting bit, we were catching trout on the surface and we even started catching some kokanee.
The kokanee seems to finally have shown there faces, no they are not big yet,they are only about 13 inches, however they are fat and full of plankton also a very welcome site to see, at one point we even had a triple but lost all of them, we did end the day at noon with ten fish, four trout and six kokanee, this was a good day of fishing as we should have gotten more to the boat but that's fishing.
Now for Saturday, I thought I could back to where I left off Friday, now the fish were there but the bite was a tough one as we had a storm front on the approach, and I tell you what this shut the bite down, we lost a couple fish and missed some strikes, we only boated three fish on this day, we fought the wind as it would blow pretty hard and calm down a little and then blow hard again making it tough to control the boat at times, but we managed, when the weather finally decides to stay nice the fishing will break wide open.
Monte Smith
Gold Country Sportfishing