Fishing Report
Another great week of fishing at Virginia Lakes, you can count the cars in the parking lot on a daily basis and know that the fishing is good. Especially those that get here before 7am. We had another great week of warm fishing weather, which probably contributes to the numbers of anglers on and around the water.
Night Crawlers are still holding at number one with pink power worms, then salmon eggs coming around the stretch. Some lures are doing well, red/gold Thomas Bouyant and the small gold Kastmaster. Float tubers hit an all time high on the lake yesterday at 24 with 1 boat. Fortunately there were not that many shore anglers to collide with.
On September 27, Riley Cotton, age 6 of Nevada City caught a nice 2lb 9oz Alpers on salmon eggs, was he ever happy, maybe not as much as his Dad. He was all grins. Also Giovanni Moreno, age 10 of Hawthorne CA caught a nice 2lb 8oz Alpers on rainbow glitter Power Bait, and this was his first time fishing and he caught all the fish. Andrew Gibbons of Highland caught a 4lb 3oz alpers on Zekes Pink and Ellen Yano of Castro Valley caught a 3lb 3oz on a fly with 5x tippet and she landed it herself.
Aspens are now in their golden stage and will soon be heading for the auburns, rusts and gold, which should happen within a week, for those who want to take some photos in between their fishing.
Flies for the week were olive wooly buggers, green/orange emerging nymph, sowbug, light brown RS2, black beetles, black ants, Black Gnats/red tail and the grey hackle peacock. Dragonfly nymphs, blue damsel, tan hoppers (everywhere) and loads of dry action. Spider columns are starting to come off the pines which means that Fall is seriously here and next week soft hackle march browns in orange and yellow will be hitting anywhere there are pines close to the water.
The weather is supposed to change starting Sunday with some light wind to gusts and probably moisture on Monday with very unsettled weather for a couple days then returning to the warming of fall. See you on the water..Carolyn
PS If you have read the article in the Western Outdoor News, not all of it is true, andthe information in quotes is not all together accurate, what I gave the Editor is in the shaded area with my name on it. News reporting is not a very accurate science, and it worded differently with the Editor's take on who he talked to and what they told him. I never said I wanted to discourage float tubers. What I said is I didnt want to discourage float tubers with the fee, but that we have a serious parking problem. Remember, dont believe everything you read, ask me first, Ill give you the straight information, the way I report the fishing activity.
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:26:41 -0700
News and Pictures
Giovanni Moreno, age 10 of Hawthorne CA caught a nice 2lb 8oz Alpers on rainbow glitter Power Bait, and this was his first time fishing and he caught all the fish.
Ellen Yano, of Castro Valley caught a 3lb 3oz on a fly with 5x tippet and she landed it herself.
Mike Drake of Eugene Oregon caught a 2lb 5oz on a rust matuka.
Richard Drake of Pasadena caught a 3lb 8oz Alpers on a wooly bugger.
Rick Tremaine of the Bay Area caught a 4lb 15oz on an orange fly (his secret).
Gene Tittle of Reseda brought in a 4lb 10oz Alpers on an old-time lure.
Joe Faruzzi of Newbury Park caught a 2 lb 13oz on a wooly bugger.
Jon Oshiro - Monterey Park
Zach Squires - Reno
Stan Tanaka - Ventura
Pete Rosell of Brea caught a 4lb on power bait.
Wyatt Murphy and his father Wayne of La Canada caught a 3lb 13oz on a Tomas Bouyant.
Demarco Garcia from Covina that caught a 2lb 12oz Bow on salmon eggs.
Angela Villa age 10
Daniel Marrero and son of Glendora
David Mendosa of Victorville
JD Armstrong
Karen Cox
Triston Foley
Chris Halterman of Lake Elsinore caught a 4lb 2oz Alpers on his hand-tied wooly bugger.
The annual trip for the Healey kids and their catch.
Kaelub Schultz, age 13 of Rancho Mirage with a 3lb 10oz Alpers on a worm on the first cast
Blake Stratford from Redwood City, 3lb 10oz on a lure out of Little V. June 30, 2008
Michal Nadenicek from Czech Republic, 3lb 10oz on a lure out of Little V, June 30, 2008. both Alpers trout.
Jeff Stetzl of Paso Robles took honors with a 3lb Rainbow out of Little Virginia on a power worm.
Coe Budge and son Wyatt age 11 of Aqua Dulce brought the "trout", Coe caught the 2lb 11oz bow out of Little Virginia on 6 16 8 on a lure.
Also, Noel Brodeur while fishing with her dad Marc, caught a native brown out of Little Virginia yesterday on a lure; it weighed in at 1lb 8 oz and was in the growth stage of a nice hooked jaw.
