Fishing has been very good lately. Just finished up three days of guiding all half-day trips and managed to catch over 130 bass, 7 catfish, and over a dozen crappie. Fish seem to be very spot oriented, and are in large schools. Fish are around the bait balls and are also spitting up crawdads! Select you baits to match the conditions.

Clearlake doesn’t disappoint. You can see why it got ranked the #1 lake in the nation for bass fishing. Gabbi here was fishing a worm in 5 feet of water when this 11lber bit.

Light line and finesse presentations are dominating right now. Lake is seeing lots of pressure from anglers. Catching some big fish! Better to get the bites and take our chances with light line then not getting many bites at all. Drop shot, senkos and shaking a small minnow on a jig head seems to be the deal.