Same story as yesterday only Poway was our lake today. Brian fished all day and saw very few fish. A big change from last Wednesday when I saw over 50 bass. I rolled in at around 5pm. Had a look on the fishing pier thing and saw a 12 or 13lber loafing through the cables. I didn't even bother casting at it for a while. I just watched it. Fish like that are probably the toughest fish to catch of any bass. Living on a spot where people fish all day. Suspending over deep water. I wonder if there is any lure that could catch a bass like that. I threw a 7" stocker trout at her, she swam off. Walking down the bank I had about 10 follows in the next 2 hours. I tried walking up on the bank so the fish wouldn't see me when they came into shallow water. I tried pitching a small jig at fish that followed my trout. All of the followers did about the same thing. They would follow it in from 1 to 10 feet behind it. When I stopped the bait because it got into too shallow of water, they would come up to it, then swim away and never come back and never follow it or anything else again. Darn that is a frustrating thing. We packed it in around 7:45, skunked again.

6 after work trips in SD and I never caught a fish. In a lot of ways that sucks, but it's ok. I tried a lot of new things. I tried a lot of old things that I hadn't tried in a long time. I feel motivated for when I get back to the Bay Area. I don't look back and feel like I did anything wrong. I could have been much more on the bite, but without being able to know the future, I felt like the things I did were legit and could have produced in the right conditions. Last Wednesday at Poway was my best shot at a good fish. The weather conditions were right, the fish were shallow and agressively chasing my bait. If my 2/0 gammie treble had stuck on the 15+ fish's back, it would have been one hell of a trip. So that's the fine line. I'll be back on the right side of the fine line sooner or later.

-Rob

I'm really curious here, don't you have to bring home the bacon?
How the heck do you have all this time off to fish all the time?? :-)

Oh yes, it may seem like all I do is fish ...

I work for Sun Microsystems in Fremont, CA. I work 40 hours a week. Right now I'm in training for two weeks at Hitachi Data Systems in San Diego. Class lets out around 4:30 or 5:00 and I just get in the truck and go. Since I don't have a lot of time to fish, I just make time :-)

Planning to hit Hodges at all? Might help to work on some less pressured fish. Sounds like you got another week to work for love though. Unless this is the end of your 2 weeks, in which case, ignore my post.

Amish Ed
You Can't Catch it again if
it's Dead!

brian is going over there this morning. I'm leaving SD today though. I would like to have gone to Hodges since it sounds like you can actually catch a couple there. But it was only open Fri-Sun :-(

On the road again, I just can't wait to get on the .... oh I love driving :-)

try throwing a pinns minnow at them they eat it up i did that a couple days ago they ate it up