A couple of guys came into the shop on Tuesday saying that they had caught 10.4 and 6.9 on jigs and split shotting Robo Worms on the eastern shore on outside grass lines. And one 12 year old kid came in with his mom saying he caught a pig on a Senko on the eastern shore out of a kayak. He had a picture and the fish was good – looked about 7 or 8 lbs. Both groups say they caught over 25 fish per day each!

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Water situation is goofy but guys are cranking and drop shotting numbers of largemouths and smallmouths in 15-25 feet of water on main lake points and transition areas coming out of cherry creek during the day and lots of reports of great top water action on points at dawn with top baits like ghost minnow sammys, super spooks, and poppers. No word from the swimbait guys but I’ve heard rumors.

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I haven’t hit Nicasio for a couple weeks and I keep hearing about large numbers of meat fisherman and that kinda’ keeps me away however guys hiking in are doing well early with spinnerbaits, speedtraps, buzzbaits and chatter baits. Also a friend of mine has found a couple brush piles that are holding numbers of above average size fish that are happy to blast brush hogs, Senkos, and crankbaits. If I were going to Nicasio I would throw 10.5” Gambler Ribbon Tail Worms in June Bug or 10” Power worms in Black/Blue or Green Pumpkin w/ Black Flake. And if I could hit it at dawn I’d throw big topwater and big wake baits until the sun hit the water.

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Fish early, fish late with big topwater and big shallow cranks or superflukes for good size feeding bass. I had a fish right between 6 or 7 pounds on a BBZ-1 Sunday morning and a 3 pounder flipping a chigger craw pegged to a 1 oz tungsten barrel weight in shallow weeds near the park.

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