FLSP Bass'n 9/13/09

[Sil240sxrwd]

Hit up Floyd Lamb today to try out some new tackle. Bought a finesse/drop shot rod paired up with a team Daiwa pro spinning reel with 6 lb fluoro. Ive never really used finesse techniques at Floyd lamb and decided to give shaky head jigs a try. I was not disappointed =)...

Arrived at the pond at 6:45am, rigged up with a Strike king shaky head football jig rigged with a Zoom 5" pumpkinseed shaky head worm.. was fishing by 7:00am. First hour of fishing was great! Landed 5 small bass and lost 2. One felt really decent but he spit the hook, the other was small and lost him to a tree he decided to swim into =(. The fishing really died down as the temp started warming up though..From 8am to 9 am was really really slow. Only managed to land one but he sure was a nice one! 2.5 -3 lbs I would say. Put up a good fight!

Overall a decent morning of fishing [fishin]
Was home by 9:30.








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[cathunter]

Cool nice report and photos that last one was huge, I assume u were fishing the back pond. I go once every week for cats but has been slow tried fishing that back pond with senkos with no luck but caught sm sunfish on corn by the stone benchs peace[]
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[Sil240sxrwd]

ya just been trying to pass the time til fall gets here and the trout fishing starts up.. Bought a brand new smoker and Ive been dieing to try it out on some trout.
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[montananinnv]

do you get snagged alot there? i seam to. have you ever tried any top water stuff there early in the morning?

[Sil240sxrwd]

tried top water this morning before the sun came up. Used a 3 inch jitterbug and got 2 big blowups. The second one broke off and took my lure =(
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[jebusmc]

I have a Rebel Teeny Pop R I've had forever still in the package. I guess I'll have to try it. Today I officially got bit by the bass bug. Around 7:30 this morning I started pitching a chartreuse and orange spinner bait and caught a small bass on my 5th or 6th cast. I switched over to bait to try and catch some gills but they just didn't want to cooperate for some reason. Around 9:00 I started fishing a texas rigged Zoom 6" watermelon seed lizard. Within 5 minutes I pulled out a 1 pounder. I'm pretty sure there was another nice one in there but my wife had finally caught a couple of small sunfish and decided it was time to go home. We had things to do.
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[montananinnv]

my girlfriend starla and i caught 4 lil ones this morning, 2 each. pretty good way to spend a morning. and we saw james sil240sxrwd too, nice to meet you sir

[Sil240sxrwd]

I got to talking about the game warden today about the lack of cover for the bass in the back pond. He said its a good possibility that if I got a few people to volunteer and pickup some used christmas trees after christmas and strip em of the needles and trim some of the branches, They would let us throw em in the pond for cover. I think it would do wonders for the 3 lower ponds. Those poor bass are so sunbeaten and yellow =( I think it would also help the bluegill size up also.
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[lvrider]

I heard there was a big pile of wood in the back some where that is from all the trees around the park. We would use this wood for our fire pit on the those cold mornings. I wonder if that wood would work okay.
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[myersT]

Let me know if we can help. Christmas trees are good for a year but there are alternatives these days. PVC structure works good but according to the strucutre put in down at Mohave the Bass seem to like wood pallets a lot more.

put some of these out in the middle
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[Sil240sxrwd]

[quote myersT]Let me know if we can help. Christmas trees are good for a year but there are alternatives these days. PVC structure works good but according to the strucutre put in down at Mohave the Bass seem to like wood pallets a lot more.

put some of these out in the middle[/quote]

Thats what the ranger was saying.. He mentioned pallets and pvc structure. I will get in contact with the offices at the park and see if we can really get this done. Ill let you know what they say as soon as they respond.
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[cathunter]

[quote montananinnv]my girlfriend starla and i caught 4 lil ones this morning, 2 each. pretty good way to spend a morning. and we saw james sil240sxrwd too, nice to meet you sir[/quote]

If u dont mind me asking what were u catching them on??
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[montananinnv]

just a black jig head with yellow painted eyes and like a 2 or 3 inch grub. black and pumpkin seed color grub. i think the jig was 1/8 oz

[montananinnv]

i like the looks of those pallets ones. i think that would work awesome there. let me know what the park guys say, iam game to help build them and or place them.
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[KeithJC]

Hey guys, new to fishing the vegas area. I wanted to check out FLSP, on a couple different websites, it said hours were either 8am or 9am, but I noticed a couple of you in this thread talking about getting out there much earlier, so are the gates just open? Is there a certain time it opens?

Also, google earth shows a few different ponds, is there a better one or all 3 about equal?

Thanks for any info!
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[montananinnv]

there is four ponds. the biggest one, the first one you come too is stocked with channel catfish like once or twice a month in the summer and rainbow trout in the fall and winter and most people fish that one. the other ponds have self sustaining bass and blue gill. i usually get there at like 630 and its opened. nobody at the gate though.
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[Sil240sxrwd]

[quote Sil240sxrwd][quote myersT]Let me know if we can help. Christmas trees are good for a year but there are alternatives these days. PVC structure works good but according to the strucutre put in down at Mohave the Bass seem to like wood pallets a lot more.

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Thats what the ranger was saying.. He mentioned pallets and pvc structure. I will get in contact with the offices at the park and see if we can really get this done. Ill let you know what they say as soon as they respond.[/quote]

So basically I havent heard anything back yet. So this week sometime I am going to the office to talk to these people and see who I need to get into contact with to get this done... I have received more than a few E-mails from people saying they want to help, so I am going to try my best to get some results.
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