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Gone Fishin
Reports From the Field
May Day - Scotts Flat Pickup Trip By: Kirston Koths
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On May Day weekend, four GPFF-ers (Bob M., Lee C., Loretta,,and Kirston) joined up to go on a pickup trip to Scotts Flat Lake, near Nevada City. The lake features convenient shoreline camping, plenty of space to spread out and be COVID-friendly, and overall, a reasonably productive fishing trip, despite the drought. Pretty good trip, all things considered.
-Kirston Koths
Dogwoods were in bloom, but the bass structure was high and dry due to the extreme drought. Low water allowed some shoreline casting (Loretta), but float tubing (Lee) provided more fishing options
Normally we catch smallmouths where the triple trunks are, on the right in this photo. But this year, the water was low, the spawning cycle was early, and there were *largemouths* in the foreground in six feet of water.
Left: This Largemouth liked the leech
Right: This smallmouth, in the foot-and-a-half range, preferred cooler water, and it also took the leech.
Left: A decent-size smallmouth will actually strip line off your reel! And they jump like crazy.
Below Left: But the prize of the trip was this rare resident brown trout taken by Lee in over 15 feet of water.
Below Right: “See you next year, big fella!”
