 Air Temp: 71°-74°F (Morning) 86°-89°F (Mid-day) Water Temp: 75°-78°F Average number of bass per boat per day: 60-80 Largest bass caught: 13 pounders and an estimated 250 bass from 6 to 9 pounds! Popular lures used this Week: - Berkley 10-inch Powerworms - watermelon red flake, watermelon, black with blue tail, tequila sunrise, junebug.
- Zoom 8-inch Lizards - watermelon red flake, watermelon, watermelon w/ chartreuse tail, black with blue tail, blue flake, watermelon candy, tequila sunrise, junebug.
- Spinnerbait 3/4-ounces to 1-1/4-ounces – white, white / chartreuse.
- Storm WildEye Swim Shads 4, 5-inch – shad, golden mullet, mullet, bunker, white, and white w/ chartreuse top. (Be sure to bring chartreuse dye for the tails!!!).
- Jigs 5/16-ounces to ½-ounce. – watermelon, black & blue, green pumpkin, white, white / chartreuse.
- Kinami Flashes, Senkos & Yum Dingers 5, 6, 7-inch – watermelon, watermelon red flake, watermelon candy, black & blue, pumpkin seed, chartreuse.
- Excalibur Fat Free Shad ¾ -ounces - citrus shad, blue shad, fire tiger, crawdad. (with orange on the bottom)
- Rico Pop R & Excalibur Super Pop’r – white, bleeding shad, silver / black.
- Rat-L-Trap - 1/2-ounces & 3/4-ounces - silver/ with blue back, silver/ with black back.
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Fantastic! Unbelievable! Phenomenal!
Pick any one of these words you choose, but it’s still doesn’t adequately describe how the fishing has been lately at El Salto Lake. Actually, as so many of our guests will verify, it has been that way all season long.
Charles Dilland, of College Park, Georgia knows what we’re talking about. “I’ve been coming to El Salto once or twice a year since 1998,” Dillard says. “Our recent trip was the best yet. The number and quality of the fish was fantastic!” Norman Klayman, Dillard’s fishing partner, ended up with five fish of more than 9-pounds. The five fish included one whopper of 10-pounds, 8-ounces.
“Pop Rs and spinnerbaits were great early morning baits in the back of the coves,” Klayman says. “We used 10-inch worms and big lizards later in the day. A watermelon color was great when the sun was shining. Black and blue was best under cloudy skies or late in the day.”
Weather the first two weeks in June was cooler than normal. You need to bring a light jacket for early mornings or late afternoons. Spinnerbaits and crankbaits have been producing when the wind picks up as it does every afternoon. The most productive crankbaits have been the Bomber Fat Free Shad with an orange colored belly. Fire tiger, crawdad, blue shad and citrus have all been hot shades.
Stan and Pamela Atwood, of Mount Sereno, California, boated some awesome sized fish during their recent six-day stay. The California couple caught 62 bass of more than 7-pounds. Two of their fish topped 12-pounds. Both of those heavyweights were caught on Rico Pop surface lures. Most of their other bass came on 5-inch Storm WildEye Swim Shad swimbaits in a golden mullet color as well as 10-inch Berkley power worms in black with a blue tail.
Joe and Paula Bullock, of Hillsborough, California, used black and blue jigs to clobber bass on their June visit. They caught a bundle of big bass in submerged trees using 3/8th and ½-ounce jigs. Joe himself caught 44 bass over 7- pounds on jigs. He fished his jigs slow and many of the fish picked up on the fall. Joe’s two largest bass weighed 11.1-pounds and 10.12-pounds.
Don Wuest, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, boated an 11.4-pound bass. It was the largest he’s ever taken.
A productive technique the past two weeks has been fishing the trees with 8-inch Zoom lizards rigged Texas Style. The most successful anglers are using 5/16th-ounce weights in the morning and ½-ounce in the afternoon. Swimbaits, especially the Storm 5-inch WildEye Swim Shad in a golden mullet color, continue to nail some of the largest bass. El Salto largemouth are busting shad in the early morning. Soft plastics rigged wacky style have also been effective lately.
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