Yuba report...UGLY!

[Strikes_R_Us]

Went to Yuba today with my son in law. Big mistake. On the water at 7:15, beautiful day, a fine mist of fog hanging over the water, no wind, and NO BITES! Started out just east of the narrows, working the shoreline to see if any of the toothy ones wanted to play. Nothing in 2 hours, headed across from the boat ramp straight out from the rock piles, (now exposed) in 35' of water. Saw some schools right on the bottom, assumed they were perch, tried for an hour, nothing. Moved to the deepest spot I could find, 38' straight out from the spillway at the bouy line. Again schools on the bottom, 2 hours later, nothing. Last we tried out from the ramp in 35' schools on the bottom and suspended at 20' one bite on my son in laws pole and that was it.

I don't know if Yuba is done until ice over or what but we should have gone elsewhere today.

Tube Dude, I think you said you were going to try Yuba tomorow. You are better than us I know that, but I would go elswhere if I were you. Just my 2 cents.[:p]

Left around 1:00 we were the only boat on the water until 12:00. Saw some bank tanglers around the point by west beach. Got buzzed by a small ariplane twice, the lake was like glass untill 11:30 when a little breeze blew in. Great weather, just no fish. Maybee strawberry or deer creek next sunday if the weather holds. Good luck if you go TD. You're gonna need it.[cool]

ps. outside temp. in the morning was 24 degrees, 56 when we left.
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[albinotrout]

Haven't heard much good from yuba lately. But with all the small fish the DWR pulled out lately it should pick up next year. Hope TD can pull it off tomorrow.
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[ocean]

Thanks for the report i am glad i did not go today. I think fishing will be better when the ice gets here.
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[pezvela]

I was there sat. same story as yours....no bites. We took a tall dollar video camera to try to determine what the big arches are at depth. Too much turbidity to see much at the depths the big arches were. Used the down rigger to troll through the schools we found on sonar. No takers.

Last year we were catching pike until dec 8, but with all the yearling perch for fodder this fall the pike might not be interested in a lure. Who knows!

Saw quite a few dead yearling perch in the water and the birds are taking advantage of them. !0 days ago the shoreline was littered with them but we didn't see many sat.

I'm going to wait a few weeks then try it again, but I don't expect much with all of the available feed. Maybe soaking a minnow on the bottom might work, but I'm not much into that kind of fishing unless it is the only way to catch pike. Best of luck to all of you that are going to try yuba before ice over.
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