California Bluegills

A place to discuss panfishing in California, from Dorris to San Ysidro.

On the crank

Caught a couple on a Yozuri Snap Bean (smaller sized one) yesterday evening at Lake Alpine in Marin, here is one of them.
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    JBplusThuy

    A couple is one more than we caught last weekend at Bethany :p It was really tough - crowded, a bunch of swimmers, including ones doing cannonballs off the dock 8 feet from where people were fishing, high winds, you name it. Our total for the day was one small bluegill released, one bluegill caught, and one hooked and lost. Methinks it's time to find another lake - too many people coming to Bethany now for the amount of good fishing spots.

    For anyone in a boat, it's still great, and a couple guys came back from the far end of the lake with a boatload (heh) of big bluegill in their ice chest.
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      JBplusThuy

      That got me to googling Marin lakes, and Stafford sounds/looks kind of nice, although I couldn't find any fishing report on it. Ever been there?
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        JBplusThuy

        Went to Stafford Lake Saturday. The weather was beautiful. The fishing, well, that was another story.

        So far as I can tell, the foot-accessible part of the lake is devoid of fish. Shallow and weedy, the kind of place where you'd expect to find some bluegill, but not a single nibble all day long. There's quite a bit of algae in the lake, and they've recently sprayed copper sulfate on that part of it; I'm guessing it drove the oxygen level down far enough that there really are no fish in that part of the lake. None observed, not even a single rising fish at sunset.

        No boats, no float tubes, no way to get to the other side of the lake, which looks to have near-shore deep water.

        And then there's the large resident population of Canada geese, which have the entire shore liberally covered with goose poop :-P At least there's a playground with a nice play structure, so the kids had something to do on a warm afternoon the weekend after the last day of school :-)
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