6/25 perris

slow day for me. few tubers out. i was fishing sail cove. 1 rod dropshot moring dawn and the other rod a small crankbait on the other. manged 1 dink bass on the crank. few fish are busting bait. off the water by 9.

A piece of advice when chasing after the bass:

Early hours, before sunrise to the light creeps out from the horizon, sub-surface crank/swimbait, 4" to 6", mimicking bluegill/coppernose or small bass. Yep..small bass. The bass here will eat the small fry bass.

Once the sunlight breaks the surface, go deep from 8' to 16'. Switch to shakey heads, load it with watermelon-flake colored senko or pumpkin-flake senko/worm (4" to 6"). You may end up snagging  a large channel cat or the rare striper.

Once it hits roughly 10am, switch to ice jig, 1" or 2", going deep and search for the schools. Since you're at the Sail Cove, search roughly around 100ft away from the dam, and head to the midway of the damn itself. You'll find plenty of holed up schools there. Once you hit the outlet, ready for the nightmare of sudden deep boils.

short day

I Hear you on the short day , I was off the Water @ 11 today .    Day started off rough as I was sitting on Bernasconi side waiting for them to open the gate (25mins)  , Came back through the Ramona Gate  . looked down into sail cove  and I think i saw your jeep ? 

ended up in 11-12 as the sun was already breaking the cloud cover off  ...  Fish where Busting shad everywhere  Bass for sure as you can see the Green backs .  Clouds came over again for what like 20 mins ?  and I started to see Different fish hitting the shad deeper  ? they where like 1-2lbs and very dark in color , Is it possible that crappie have the same habits as bass ? 

Either way I was targeting Crappie and working marabou jigs in high colors (greens, yellows , whites)  , even threw crappie cranks ... no love     

Switched over to bass throwing the Senko on a shaky head and they where hammering it , literally hitting it before you could close your bail ..  

I will be back out Wednesday as the cloud cover is supposed to hold longer , but its supposed to be hotter 

WES

Good try Wes. Crappie don't have the same habit as bass, since they like to stay away from dense fish school activities. They'll stay together in their own little school, but not with the bass, since the bass will tear them up if they're in the 6" and less category.

The green backs are likely to be juvenile bass, up to 2lbs category. The dinks are all over the southern areas. During a flooding period, where more water is imported from the mountains, shads hit the shallows, and the bass chase them like wolves on the hunts. You toss a crank or spinner in the shallow, the shads will literally jumps out of the water to get away from the line.

Suggestion for crappie hunting:
Head to the tire reef ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]). Hunt long the tall reeds as you work yourself towards the tire reef. Like I said, any tree overhanging the water is the prime spot to hammer them.
* Rig, sliding bobber, rigged with the crappie jig (1/32oz or 1/60oz chartreuse body-yellow tip), tipped with a very small worm segment for attracting by scent, suspended less than 18" off the bottom. You will catch both green sunfish (GSF) and crappie. Coppernose will hammer this offering as well.
* If you have time, and know someone that can tie flies, like me, have them make some auto-jigs for you created by LedHed: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (I made a handful for friends earlier. Still have some left. If you live locally in Riverside (near 60 and 91), I'll gladly meet up with you tonight and give you some. Otherwise, I'll mail some to you.

If you still have some kicking strength left, head to the known beds that normally get targeted at the south side:
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (This is the known as the Hidden Oasis).

There are 3 prime spots along the west side and north side of the island, if you actually have any strength left after all that kicking.

Guess I will try again on the bernasconi Side tomorrow .  hope they have the gates open @6 or maybe just show up at 6:30  ...   as I waited at the gate this morning all I saw was a couple weird guys walking around there  .   

Scares me to leave my car  , I was up there pretty early today and i walked past the gates and the bernasconi side looks very very over grown everywhere , main paths etc  


Thanks again Leo , I have some Gps cords saved as well .. at least I have that while I wait for payday this week to replace my fish finder

Edit  ( oh btw I live on the far east side of moreno valley , right next to the lake moreno beach side , But I work @ bestbuy off day street as I am a shift lead there) so if you or anyone needs electronics come see me  ..  We will work something out for you

WES

Thanks for the offer Wes. Too bad it's not the weekends, which we normally go shopping at the Costco and Winco there in MoVal. Let me know if you still need the auto-jigs. I still have a handful at the office, since I'm sending some to a few friends today.

By the way, I have some pinpoint GPS coordinates if you need them. I also have a private Lake Perris map with coordinates with heavy variety as well which I can PM you if you like.

Thanks for the info. I just need to keep at it.

how are the weeds out in sail cove?

There growing fast I started fishing it hard the last 2 months I've learned a lot from my tube. The weeds are growing up fast everywhere on the lake sail cove had nearly none 2 months ago and is worse each day.

desertstorm28 wrote:how are the weeds out in sail cove?

It's not to bad compared to lot 11-12. Theres some patches near shore then clear abt 5 ft out.

I don't mind the weeds personally when fishing from a tube it's nice. From shore it's a nightmare

Figured there would be some there I was out at bernasconi on Sunday and the weeds were pretty tall and thick

Sell the weed to the Asians, and call it, "Fresh Water Seaweed Wraps".

Hey guys,
Just a suggestion,... if you are in a grey sky condition and fish are bustin' bait,...may I suggest you fish topwater.?!!

    bodfish

fished the dam from 6-11 for 1 skunk buster and had one come unbuttoned... bluestone is planned for monday the 8th

Blue stone? Say what I thought the lake was looking good right now.

I thought so too water clarity was 18 ft. easy today don't know why they feel the need to bluestone but I guess they are... granted I was told by a couple guys on the water who aren't lake staff so idk if they really know.