07-14-2021, 06:57 PM
(07-14-2021, 06:04 PM)joatmon Wrote: Thanks for the update Pat. It has gotten more difficult to fish from shore there. Can you still walk south along the road? A couple years ago I had some success with cats just north of where the road was fenced and posted for private property. Also increasingly difficult to get to the water through the phragmites and tamarisk.The land owners are pretty adamant about no public access...motorized or foot traffic...outside of the agreed upon access areas. I also used to have some good spots north of the current access area. I can still reach them in my tube but it was nicer to be able to drive up and make some casts from shore...and there were some spots where there was deeper water close to the water line.
Last year I tried fishing right there where you were. I would walk out quite a ways, cast out, then feed my line back to shore. I don't think the water was more than a foot or so deep for several hundred feet out. And no luck that day. I may hit Lincoln Beach/Point area this evening, even though its a bit longer to drive.
There are still anglers who wade out a long ways and then fan cast around them. But with the low water conditions you have to wade halfway across the lake to reach any depth. I launch my tube, go straight out to at least 3-4 feet of water and then move westerly towards the point. The water depth drops off quickly off that point and makes it possible to fish deeper water closer to shore. But, of course, that is NO TRESPASSING for bank tanglers.
The water level at Lincoln Point is dropping enough that you should be able to get out onto the rock shelves in front of the springs. The water there drops off into about 5 feet of water fairly quickly if you can get out on those shelves. I've caught a lot of fish there.