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Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 24, 2011
Subject:
Rainbow Reservoir 08/24
Message:
I fished Rainbow Reservoir with justinmorse (aka Justin) today. He paddled La Calabaza and I paddled El Habaņero. We were the first car in the lot at the boat launch ramp. It was nice and cool even though the sun was glaring. There was only a slight west wind when we launched just after 8:00 am. I had never fished near the new dam before, so we headed east down the shore. While I futzed around with my gear (I accidentally spilled my coffee in my kayak when I launched :? ), Justin fished a big laydown that's immediately adjacent to the ramp. He threw an unweighted Texas rigged seven inch Midnight Fire (aka black with red tail) Powerbait Power Worm and got a hit on the retireve. I asked whether it was a good fish and, yeah, it was. At first, Justin thought that it was a largemouth bass, but from the way that it was pulling, I knew that it was a smallmouth bass. When he got it to the surface, we could see that it was barely hooked through the inside of its upper lip and I was glad when he was finally able to lip it:
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The glare was obviously too much for my iPhone's camera. Sorry about that, Justin! :? The smallie was 18 inches long and weighed two pounds, two ounces. We joked about catching the lunker on the first cast and, unfortunately, that ended up being the case. We caught several small fish on the sunny north shore and in the shady coves:
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My first four fish were a 10 inch smallie, another 10 inch smallie, a 12 inch smallie and a six inch smallie. Justin got a sunny on a roostertail and some little smallies. When we got to the buoys in front of the dam, we headed to the shady south shore. We had high hopes for it, but it just didn't seem to hold many fish. Justin got a small largemouth bass on the Power Worm. As the day went on, the wind rose until it blew at 10+ miles per hour. We decided to paddle west against the wind and toward the old dam. Along the way, I got a little smallie on a trolled silver Rapala Original Floater F07 and Justin got a yellow perch on the roostertail. But it seemed that the further west we went, the deader the bite became. We let the wind blow us back to the new dam from the old, where I boated a short largemouth bass with a wacky rigged five inch Senko. We headed off the water at about 3:00 pm. I don't know why, but they always seem to hold water in the reservoir when I'm there. There's never any flow. Today, suspended debris didn't seem to move at all, well, except when a powerboat blew by us or the wind caught it. :roll: I think that the lack of current is what killed the bite.
Author:
justinmorse
Date:
Aug 25, 2011
Message:
Definitely a good day on the water. Thanks again, Phil.
Author:
Fishface
Date:
Aug 25, 2011
Message:
Nice job guys.
Tim
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