Taylor Lake/Colorado River ATTN: Bob

Just got back.

Taylor Lake was choked full of weeds and shallow, 3 feet max. I got a
lot of small bass and stripers though on a topwater Zara "Puppy".

Also I got lots of small striper on same lure and in the main
river(image 5) I tossed a Fat Free Shad crankbait and reeled it against
the current next to that rock face for some bass and stripers.

Biggest fish was a striper about 2 pounds.
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"SHRED" wrote in message
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Just got back.

Taylor Lake was choked full of weeds and shallow, 3 feet max. I got a lot
of small bass and stripers though on a topwater Zara "Puppy".

Also I got lots of small striper on same lure and in the main river(image
5) I tossed a Fat Free Shad crankbait and reeled it against the current
next to that rock face for some bass and stripers.

Biggest fish was a striper about 2 pounds.
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~~SHRED

Sounds like what I have been catching lately. Lots of dinks and occassional
2-3 pounders. The grass beds are all dieing right now so a lot of the bass
have moved out of the grass. The water has been low so I have not run as
far upa s Taylor Lake. But I would figure furhter up river the grass would
be further along towards winter levels (dead) than down. I fished a
torunament yesterday,a nd lots of peopel only weighed in a couple fish
including some good anglers I have a lot of respect for. On the flip side
the weathewr has been phenomanal. A little cool before sunrise. I actually
wore a jacket yesterday, but really nice alld ay long. We had an over cast
on Thursday down river that provided for a slow, but steady topwater bite
most of the day. When the sun finally popped out around 1:00 PM the
topwater bite finally died.

Anyway, the bass I have found in the grass for the last week have been small
with a few small keepers, and the action with them has been pretty slow.
Sounds like you did great under the current circumstances.

I haven't caught many stripers lately down river, but I have not been
targeting them much. I have heard a couple reports of stripers being back
in the lakes where youa ren't used to seeing them. I think that is because
of the higher waters and increased water releases this spring. I think more
smalls tripers came down fromt he big canyon lakes up river. Still not a
lot of size to them down here, but I know of one 12 pounder caught int he
river, and another angler reported getting into a school of them that ran
6-8 this summer. This summer I caught hundred of them in 6-14" range with
the kids when fun fishing.

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Bob La Londe

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