DWR Wiper Info 2024

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Pat, that just gave me a new goal, I've never even thought you could catch two fish on the same lure... That is incredible, now I know I need to put more time on the water to have a chance to do that... Pretty cool story there, almost as cool as the flying fish... Guess I have snagged two cisco at a time on the same treble hook, but that's not the same as mouth hooking the fish.. I'll bet that takes a lot of hook ups to have that happen... Did you ever try to put a number on the fish you have caught over the years?  Not that I'm trying to figure odds of that happening, but it's probably a million to one...  Thanks for getting Chris to provide the update, always fun to know more... Thanks Jeff

It happens more than you may think in the early 90’s when I was a teenager there was a lake that had just come back up after a long drought at Santa Margarita Lake on the central coast of California. There was a very successful Large Mouth Spawn that created big schools. We would catch them on almost every cast using rattle traps catching two at a time on the same lure several times a day. We thought we were reel Bass Masters catching hundreds of 6-8” bass a day then the next year we where catching dozens of 12” bass a day with a couple double hook ups a day then the next year catching a dozen 15-17” bass a day every few trips getting a double on the same lure. It just takes a fairly large active school of feeding fish to make it happen. With the large schools of juvenile Wipers at Willard now your odds are good.

I used to wander up that way...to Santa Margarita...or San Antonio when I lived in Sacramento.  But I was partial to the plentiful and big white bass in Nacimiento at that time.  If I wanted largies I just had to pop over the hill to Cachuma or down a few miles to Lake Casitas near Ojai.  Got some bigguns there.  

Also used to use the old RatLTraps a lot. Closest thing ever to an "idiot bait".  Even I could catch fish on it by just chunkin' and windin'.  They also worked great for inshore fishing along the Sea of Cortez.  Except everything down there has teeth and after a few fish there wasn't any paint or silver finish left on the pale plastic blank.  But those wacky fish would still eat them.  Never caught doubles there though.