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FisherMax09 wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2024 11:21 am Where can you catch smallies at?

Imperial Valley canals

shad/dads/stocked trout/baby bluegill/any fry of fish in the lake

Barrett

I think (don't know for sure) it doesn't have a decent oxygen supply and is essentially unmaintained, so the water doesn't get replenished often, resulting in regular die-offs. The last time I saw it was choked with vegetation and algae. I'm not sure I would eat anything out of it.


If it was ...

My wife's uncle caught the blueest bass i ever seen using a large night crawler across the lake from the restaurant on the point at kitchen cove. It's actually the only bass I've first hand seen caught out of the lake. It was nice maybe just under 4#

Go look at mattlures galleries on his website. Any pic that has tulles with waders or pine trees in the back is cuyamaca.

I’ve always wanted to give that place time for bass, never have. I fished it a bunch over the years for bass but not consistently. Never had quantity or any jumbos. I know guys that do well but they are religiously hitting it when it’s biting. Many trips in a short time frame. You’re blessed if you ...

A couple of years ago, I was baiting and waiting for trout with my twin boys. I watched a trout fisherman pull in an 11.2 bass on a light spinning rod. He was rainbow fishing with nightcrawlers.

I have fished it for bass in the past without much success, but I know they are in there and there are ...

I have not been up there in probably 3-4 years and all I remember is there are a lot of carp there and they move across the top of the water so I finally realized they were not bass. I ended up with one bite and landed about a 2 1/2 pound bass on a senko right before I left.


Been there, done ...

Only time I've caught bass out of there was during spawning season which doesn't require much skill. I'm betting if you can get your hands on a topography map of the lake and find where the rock piles are you would have better luck, maybe even hook one of those 50lb sturgeon I've seen airborne there

Yeah, don’t give the fish that much credit and overthink it.