04-04-2014, 03:09 PM
I clocked 105 miles, going down the California side, from where the Skeeter is parked at Flamingo and Eastern. You could easily shore fish from North Dike...if you are thinking barbecue...the rangers will frown on open fires cause the vegetation there burns so easy and fast.
If Maddie is practiced up on her pitching and skipping then it's a great place. Lots of Mesquite, Palo Verde and salt cedars and ever present reeds/cattails to get hung in if you have poor accuracy in pitching.
With the water level at 455 and rising many tree branches are almost touching the water. On the other hand you often see the locals long lining the channel edges. There's crappie, catfish, bluegill and the occasional striper
Typical lowland lake/reservoir scenario. Bass are out on the channel edges in the mornings and evenings, spend the day back in very heavy cover or buried in weed-lines and finding the harder bottom composition and small depressions is everything.
Deepest water is about 10 ft. Topock is on a migration path . Many birds winter there and
beavers/muskrats/wild pigs are around. You never see the javelinas but sometimes you hear them and see the paths through the underbrush they make to water
Right now it's heavy cover flipping, or senko bite...perhaps spinnerbaits in the wind, but a bit later in the season you can catch bass on buzz baits and surface plugs. The fall bite can be outstanding.
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If Maddie is practiced up on her pitching and skipping then it's a great place. Lots of Mesquite, Palo Verde and salt cedars and ever present reeds/cattails to get hung in if you have poor accuracy in pitching.
With the water level at 455 and rising many tree branches are almost touching the water. On the other hand you often see the locals long lining the channel edges. There's crappie, catfish, bluegill and the occasional striper
Typical lowland lake/reservoir scenario. Bass are out on the channel edges in the mornings and evenings, spend the day back in very heavy cover or buried in weed-lines and finding the harder bottom composition and small depressions is everything.
Deepest water is about 10 ft. Topock is on a migration path . Many birds winter there and
beavers/muskrats/wild pigs are around. You never see the javelinas but sometimes you hear them and see the paths through the underbrush they make to water
Right now it's heavy cover flipping, or senko bite...perhaps spinnerbaits in the wind, but a bit later in the season you can catch bass on buzz baits and surface plugs. The fall bite can be outstanding.
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