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San Leandro Creek 11/16/08

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:37:36 -0500

I fished the san leandro creek below lake chabot from 9:45-11:30 and caught a 6lb 9oz carp and a bluegill, I did get a few pics of the carp feeding in the shallows. After that I went to my spot at the dam until 3:00 and only had one hit.

The creek

Bluegill

This carp was feeding peacefully in the shallows...

Then he saw me

My 6lb 9oz carp

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San Leandro Creek 11/11/08

MinnowMagnet — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:18:33 -0500

I went out to the san leandro creek right under the dam at lake chabot, I had heard that there were carp in there so my friend and I got there at about 10:30am. There were many shallow pools, after a while we saw a few carp, then I threw my float rod near some brush and moved over to the next pool and got two little bass and a nice bluegill, then I heard a splash and ran over to see my rod taking off, I picked it up and fought it out of the weeds to see a 5lb carp.

After that the bite slowed down, we saw a few carp and missed one take. Then after a couple hours it picked up, I saw a few carp and then got a bass just under 12".

Then I casted my float rod by where a few carp were feeding in about a foot of water and then one took my bread, after a short, scrappy fight I got a 6lb 9oz carp.

Then a while later my friend got a 8" wild rainbow trout, then we left at 4:30, I might post up a pic of the trout if my friend sends it to me, he got one with his camera.

Lagoon 11/10/08

MinnowMagnet — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:58:04 -0500

I fished about 1 1/2 hours after school and caught 5 up to 5lb 6oz.

Lagoon (New Spot)

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:07:28 -0500

I heard about a freshwater lagoon in alameda, I had seen it before and thought it was saltwater and thought to myself, if that is freshwater I bet there would be carp there. Well, I had heard it had carp so I went to check it out, it is only about 10 minutes from my house. I got there at 3:00pm and fished next to a park, it is only 15 feet from the bay so i could fish rays and carp at the same time. I saw fish jump right away, I started getting hit right away, then I freelined next to a small bridge, then hooked up and lost it at then net. A few minutes later I landed a 5lber. After that I nailed them until I went home at 5:15pm. I ended up catching nine from 1lb-7lbs 3oz, most of them from 4-6lbs. I will probably go back tommorrow after school!

A few nice ones

Halloween at SL

MinnowMagnet — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:29:00 -0400

I fished from 11:00-5:00 and caught 102lbs 8oz out of 18 fish. Many 8-9lbers with the biggest at 9lbs 15oz, but they were surfacing and I saw a few monsters come up that must have been over 20lbs, I pulled my bait away from many 6-10lbers. I also got a 4lb 1oz mirror. Most of the carp were caught on the surface, but I got some smaller ones and the mirror float fishing. Here are some pics and a video of fish surfacing.

Carp surface feeding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1N9wievWY

some nice sized fish from 8lbs 9oz-9lbs 15oz

Mirror

Miller Park 10/26/08

MinnowMagnet — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:54:48 -0400

I got up at 7:00am feeling a little better, we took the train to sacramento to try a spot that was said to be great, it was called Miller park and it was a marina on the Sacramento River. Between my dad and I we had 4 rods out from 10:00am-4:30pm and zero hits let alone any carp. By 7:30 I was sick agian and that is why I am not a school now, even though the spot sucked yesterday, it was a cool spot that we might try agian. We did get two bluegills. So this spot failed, but I still have the other spots from this month. Here are some pics of the spot.

Newark Lake 10/25/08

MinnowMagnet — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:54 -0400

I got up at 6:00am and grabbed my carp gear then picked up my friend at 6:45 to go out to Newark lake and meet up with Raymac who was helping out with a catfish clinic, but hadn't caught any carp out of there so it would be a discovery spot if I got a carp. We got there around 7:30am, My friend and I set up just past the netted area, after a couple hours of catching one little bass and people everywhere who kept crossing my line we moved over. to the point, I got a couple tiny bass, but still no carp. then at around 11:30 we moved across the lake to a spot by the bridge. I caught a few minnows that my friend and I used and caught a couple bass. Then at about 12:30 my carp rod got hit, I set the hook to find a turtle that was snagged in the foot. We then left to go to a nice quite shady part of the lake because I was feeling sick and wanted to rest. We found a nice little shady area where I could see carp bubbling.

I casted out two float rods with bread at got a few small hits, but was feeling to sick t get up and rebait r go help out at the catfish clinic. After a while I got up and rebaited, I got a couple little his, them had a nice hit, but missed it. Then about 15 minutes later I was laying on my mat when I had a run on my rod, I turned out to be a 2lb common, it was small but still a carp which means another successful discovery spot, I left shortly after at about 3:00 to find out I had a 102 degree fever.

Oak Hill Park 10/19/08

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:59:57 -0400

This morning I got up at 8:30am planning to go to another discovery spot. This spot was oak hill park in Danville, a guy from fishsniffer said there were many big commons and koi in there. I got out there at 10:00am with bread, sweetcorn and float tackle, freeline tackle and my new 12' black phantoms, one of which I was using for a float rod.

I caught some little bass and a little bluegill. Then after 15 minutes I got hit on my float rod with bread, it turned out to be what the locals said was a blue catfish and I agree, the blue catfish weighted 3lbs.

Then I was talking to a bass guy who had been living around there for 20 years and fishing there for over 10years since he was a kid, and he told me that there were only 7 or 8 maybe 10 koi in that lake and no commons. He also said he had never seen one caught and they were impossible to get to bite. That discouraged me a little, but figured there were at least a few commons in there and I had a chance at getting a koi. Then when I walked across the lake to go to the bathroom I saw a pale orange koi with black and white spots that looked about 15lbs. Then at around 12:00 I moved over there. I talked to some other locals who also said there were not may koi in there, but there had been one recorded catch of a koi a few years back, it was white koi at 6lbs. I fished that spot for a couple hours and only caught a few small bass and another little bluegill on a spinner. I decided to move back to the other spot at about 3:15. I got back to that spot and saw no signs of fish. But then at about 4:50pm I was talking to another kid who was catch bluegills when I heard my rod getting hit, it was my 12' float rod with bread and 6lb fluorocarbon. I ran up and set the hook and when it took off I knew it was a koi or carp, then it jumped and I saw it, a large red/orange koi. As soon as I saw it I yelled YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Everyone turned and looked at me like I was nuts, after a few minutes I got it to the net. It weighed 12lbs 9oz. I left just after releasing the koi. That's one more successful entry.

One small cat.

Admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:55:03 -0400

After spending most of Sunday in the Delta catching nothing, I tossed a line baited with garlic shrimp off my seawall this morning around 10:00 am. I had a good strike fairly soon but it didn't get hooked. I cast out again and hooked into a nice fighting 7 pound catfish which I photographed and then released to be caught again. Sometimes it's better to stay home.

My B-Day Weekend

MinnowMagnet — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:55:11 -0400

We had a great weekend, we got out to whiskey slough at 9:00pm on friday. I chummed the area and started getting a couple hits at around midnight. I managed to hookup at around 1:00am. It was a 7lb catfish. I ended up getting two more cats from 6lbs to 8lbs, then went to sleep at about 4:00pm. I got up at about 6:00 and then at about 7:00 I got a 4lb cat. All te cats were on strawberry corn or bread boilies. BTW, it was freezing that night with 20 mile per hour winds and tempature getting down to 38 degrees.

Catfish

Then we went back to a discovery spot from last week, swenson park. We fished from 9:00-12:00 and I got a few bluegills and two crucians up to 1 1/2lbs and we met up with Jeff, a guy from fish sniffer who told us about the spots in stockon and he caught a small crucian.

Crucians

Bluegill

After that we went out to weber point. I caught some small baitfish and used them under and float and got a few tiny stripers and a little largemouth.

tiny striper

Little bass

Then Jeffs carp rod got hit, it turned out to be a 9lb common.

While he was unhooking that my rod with a bread boilie went off, after a 10 minute fight it hit the net, it weighed in at 20lbs even.

We didn't get anything else after that and we returned to whiskey slough, I was tired and thriugh out some rods and missed two hits before I went to sleep at 11:00. The next morning we packed up and went out to weber point. We got there at about 8:30. I got two little striper on live bait, then at around 10:30 I got a 10lb 6oz common on freelined bread.

After that my dad got a couple sunfish, but the bite had slowed down. Then I got a 6lb catfish on hair rigged bread.

We started packing and right when we were about to leave at 3:00, my boilie rod went off. It turned out to be a 12lb 9oz common. After that we left for home, it was a great weekend and we revisited two discovery spots and I still have not caught any carp under 10lbs at weber point.

Happy 14th Birthday MM!!

Admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:39:51 -0400

Justin. Have a great day and catch a bunch of fish this weekend in the Delta.

Stockton 10/5/08

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:13:57 -0400

I got up at 7:30 this morning with intents of trying to hit atleast a couple spots. I grabbed my light freelining and float gaer and then we left at 9:00am. The first place was a 70 mile drive from home and was called Weber Point, it is in Stockon along the delta and I heard that it can be a good spot for carp on the fishsniffer. We arived in Stockton at about 10:30am, the first thing we did is looked for a market since we get bread or corn before we left. After a few minutes we found a small market where we grabbed some corn, but they did not have bread. We ended up finding some bread at a walgeens and arived at the spot at about 11:00. We fished for about an hour in a spot by where we parked with no hits. Then a local told us there were many carp down the way by some pipes. We walked down there at just past noon, we chumed some bread and corn and got a few runs in the first half hour. Then I got take on bread, it turned out to be a tiny striper. After a while my light rod with corn got a run, after a 15 minute fight on 6lb line it came to the net. It weighed in at 13lbs 1oz, not bad for the first fish of the day. Shortly after that I got hooked up on bread, this time it was on a heavier rod with 10lb line, after a 10 minute fight it came to the net, this one weighed in at 17lbs 3oz, we were thinking of leaving to go to the next spot, but decided to keep catching for a while longer. Another 15 minutes went by and I hooked up on bread and after a few minutes it was in the net, this one was 10lbs 1oz and had a strange colored tail, it was light colored with gold spots on it. Some guy moved up next to us and was asking for the fish we caught and we had to explain to him our C&R policy. After the carp slowed down I fished worm on 1 rod and caught 7 bluegills and 3 small stripers. I got two more runs over the next hour, one was a bullhead catfish and the other was a small chanel. At about 2:45pm we decided it was time to move on to the next spot witch was about 6 miles away. This spot was called Swenson Park, it is a small park next to a golf course with ponds running through the park, I have heard the ponds are fed by the delta. This spot was also found on fishsniffer, where a guy told me there are lots of small commons and "goldfish", I had a hunch they were crucians. We got to the spot just afer 3:00pm, I chummed some bread and corn and threw out a rod with con and one for bluegills. I got two green sunfish and a small bluegill. After about an hour I got a hit on corn, I missed it and by that time had a float rod out and a rod out for freelining. I got a few more hits, then at about 4:30pm I hooked up on freelined bread. After a quick fight it was a 6lb 4oz common. After getting a few more hits, I got hooked up on float fished corn at 5:00pm and it turned out to be a 1 1/2lb crucian, my first. After that we packed up and headed back home knowing that we had a successful day. We got 2 entries- swenson park and Weber Point and I got some nice carp and my first crucian. Overall it was a great day.

13lbs 1oz

17lbs 3oz

10lbs 1oz

one of the bluegill

channel cat

6lb 4oz from Swenson park

My crucian

SL 9/21/08

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:03:21 -0400

I fished from 1:00-6:30pm and caught 17 carp up 14 commons up to 5lbs 5oz including the mcdonalds carp, third time caught now at 4lbs 8oz. I also got 3 mirrors, a 8inch, and a double hookup with mirrors one 3lbs 14oz and the other a recatch from June now at 4lbs 6oz.

a 5lb common

McDonalds Carp

Double Mirrors

SL 9/14/08

MinnowMagnet — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:44:36 -0400

I fished from 2:00-6:00pm and caught 5 commons up to 4lbs and a 4lb 3oz goldfish. It was my new goldfish pb and a recatch, the last time I caught him he was 3lbs 2oz in march.

Bayfarm Ferry Landing 9/10 and 9/12

MinnowMagnet — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:35:29 -0400

9/10
I fished after school from 4:00-7:00pm with squid on a hi-low and caught a 30" leopard, a tiny leopard and a TINY bat ray.

9/12
I fished after school from 3:00-6:00pm and caught a 15lb bat ray and a 28" leopard.

Bayfarm ferry landing 9/2 and 9/3

MinnowMagnet — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:27:50 -0400

I have been going there a lot lately.

9/2
I fished from 4:00-7:00pm with cut squid on a hi-lo and caught a 38" and a 28" leopard shark. Shark pics coming later.

9/3
I fish same time and same rig and I got a 8lb ray.

M&M 8/31/08-9/1/08

MinnowMagnet — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:40:22 -0400

We got to M&M at about 11:30am on sunday to setup camp with Keith, Kristi and Adam. After about 15 minutes I got a double hook up, I ended up loosing one and landing the other. Here is Sundays totals:
15lbs 4oz- MinnowMagnet
9lbs 14oz- Minnows DAD
9lbs- MinnowMagnet
10lbs 2oz- MinnowMagnet
11lbs 2oz- MinnowMagnet
15lbs 4oz- Minnows DAD (His new PB)
12lbs 4oz- MinnowMagnet
pics from sunday (in order)

No pic of 9lb

the sunfish

Kristi

Keith

Mondays Total:
11lbs 4oz- MinnowMagnet
12lbs 8oz- MinnowMagnet
11lbs 6oz- MinnowMagnet
11lbs 8oz- MinnowMagnet
8lbs 14oz- MinnowMagnet
11lbs 12oz- Minnows DAD

I also got 36 little bass, 12 blue gill, a redear/green sunfish cross and a 7lb cat.

Monday pics (in order)

Bayfarm Ferry Landing 8/28/08

MinnowMagnet — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:55:37 -0400

I fished from 3:30-5:00pm with squid on a hi-low and missed a few hits and got a 32" leopard.

Fish camp 2008

Guppy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:19:15 -0400

i just got back from my 2008 fish camp hosted by the fly shop. this year on the last day we drifted the lower sac. The camp is located on a private catch and release ranch located north of the town of weed. This year most of my fish were taken on midges under indicators,hoppers, and boatman patterns.