Out on the water by 8am. It was overcast all day and very very cold. Water was stained, 2-4ft visibility. This was my first day fishing Anderson. I must say I think this is a great reservoir. Plenty of shore line and quite a few arms, creek channels and some good structure. We measured about 150ft deep in the middle. We fished for bass only.

I got my fish on a C rigged big ika in smoke with red flake. Fish was caught off a small rocky point in about 4 ft of water. First fish on soft plastics for me. I was pretty stoked.

1lb 8oz:

Shannon got his fish trolling a medium diving crankbait (crawdad pattern) in about 40ft of water. Lucky basstard got this 3lb 5oz beauty just sitting there suspended at 10ft over 40ft:

Off the water at 3:30pm. It was a slow day overall but I was very excited to fish a new body of water. We'll be going back soon for sure.

Great photos. I love fishing new water!

Great job guys.  Those are some nice looking fish.

Nice job guys, looks like you were having a blast. Overcast days produce some of the best pictures.

its nice 2 fish new water

good job!!

Great looking lake behind you there. Nothing better than finding new water that produces on the first outing.

Wayne

Very cool guys.  I live in Gilroy, 15 minutes from Anderson.  I will have to hit that lake when my boat comes in.  

Thanks guys. I tell ya, even though we only caught a fish a piece it was well worth the outing. I do a lot of surf perch fishing and other local bass fishing from the shore recently and just catching one fish that day made the previous 3 skunks all worth it. It's been a pretty slow winter for me.

Redlinerobert,

Sweet!! What kind of boat are you getting? We will be up at Anderson again this Saturday. We'll be hitting that water as much as possible now that we know how good it can be. We'll dress a bit warmer next time though.

I talked to a few people on the water that day. Some in boats, some fishing from the docks and the general concensus was that fishing has been slow recently. Hopefully we'll get a few degrees of lasting warmth here in the next few weeks and the bite will turn on for a bit.

Hope to see you up there. Feel free to PM me if you plan a Saturday trip anytime soon. That's our day to fish.

Regards,

Titelinez!!!