fisherman_bob

Ever see how golf course developers build lakes? Once in a while they build them with creeks or streams, but this one has no creek or stream, it's water is replaced by a non-potable well, it's current is generated by aireators in the middle of the lake which is shaped something like a lagre "Y", it is said that the current is sufficient to circulate the lake once every 10 days. Without the fresh water supplied by the well, we would have nothing more that a huge watering hole. We are not allowed to use boats to get where the aireators are (which is where the really big fish are) so all fishing is done from the bank. There are no humps or rock beds just clay bottom. Prehaps it seems hard to believe that we have the trophy fish that we have; but the catch and release program ( bass only ) really helps. We hire a netting company every year or two to take out excess carp (which are sold to an asian company that cans them), at the same time we bring in divers to make repairs to the filtration system and do counts on the fish populations.

??? We have a shallow (6 ft near banks to 25 feet in the middle) 35 acre man made lake stocked with trophy sized (up to 20lbs or more) Large mouth bass (divers and carp netters estimated over 1000 bass in excess of 8 lbs), blue cats up to 40 lbs, rainbow trout (neighbor took a 5 lber), perch, and crappie. With carp and Koi for forage. We are located in south Riverside County California and the water is about 65 degrees. I took an 11 lbs bass two weeks ago on a rattler and hooked a lunker cat that broke my rod, the problem is that we had fifty inches rain this winter, which means we got a lot of muddy silt from construction sites. The two hits I got was pure luck based on the water conditions and the fact that it's spawning time. My question is what are the best lures for the conditions that we have here, oh yeah, we have no vegatation in the lake there are no trees or over hanging brush. We are not allowed to use live bait (other that worms), or corn (carp loves the corn but cann't digest it so they die if they ingest it.