10-02-2003, 07:43 PM
[size 3]I am more of a freshwater fisherman myself. Although I am starting to gear back up a bit for saltwater.[/size]
[size 3]One of my favorite places to fish is in Bishop CA. It is a bit of a drive so I cannot go that often. There is good trout fishing up there and there are some ponds just southeast of the downtown area that produce some good LMB, smallies and even some respectable bluegill and perch.[/size]
[size 3]Those ponds(which are called Saunders Ponds) are also well known for the cats that are there. Not very big ones but something worthwhile to toy around with.[/size]
[size 3]The LMB are usually caught with Panther Martin frogs. There is usually a good a.m. bite with some around for the p.m. bite. But the bigger ones have been caught up there during phases of a full moon.[/size]
[size 3]The blue gills and perch both like good ole crawlers and have a fine fancying for brown Rooster Tails.[/size]
[size 3]The smallies on the other hand fancy brown Rooster Tails and really get fired up with pumkin seed power grubbs. After dark, the smallies generally prefer a nice crawdad slowly pulled across the bottom.[/size]
[size 3]Then you have the planted as well as hold over rainbows. They generally do well on the floating power bait in the Owens River. Be sure to bring plenty of different colors as they do change their preference about every 20 minutes. It drives you crazy just trying to figure out the next color as they decide to make their change.[/size]
[size 3]There are also native Brown Trout pretty much throughout the Owens River as well as Bishop Creek. They always honor a floated night crawler as their favorite and will hit from time to time in the early morning on the good ol' Wooly Bugger.[/size]
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[size 3]One of my favorite places to fish is in Bishop CA. It is a bit of a drive so I cannot go that often. There is good trout fishing up there and there are some ponds just southeast of the downtown area that produce some good LMB, smallies and even some respectable bluegill and perch.[/size]
[size 3]Those ponds(which are called Saunders Ponds) are also well known for the cats that are there. Not very big ones but something worthwhile to toy around with.[/size]
[size 3]The LMB are usually caught with Panther Martin frogs. There is usually a good a.m. bite with some around for the p.m. bite. But the bigger ones have been caught up there during phases of a full moon.[/size]
[size 3]The blue gills and perch both like good ole crawlers and have a fine fancying for brown Rooster Tails.[/size]
[size 3]The smallies on the other hand fancy brown Rooster Tails and really get fired up with pumkin seed power grubbs. After dark, the smallies generally prefer a nice crawdad slowly pulled across the bottom.[/size]
[size 3]Then you have the planted as well as hold over rainbows. They generally do well on the floating power bait in the Owens River. Be sure to bring plenty of different colors as they do change their preference about every 20 minutes. It drives you crazy just trying to figure out the next color as they decide to make their change.[/size]
[size 3]There are also native Brown Trout pretty much throughout the Owens River as well as Bishop Creek. They always honor a floated night crawler as their favorite and will hit from time to time in the early morning on the good ol' Wooly Bugger.[/size]
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