How did the spotties taste? I like to keep whatever I kill as well - even if it is only 6 inches. When it is small, I usually chop it up and make it into dog or cat food
I like spotted bass but then I like almost all fish.
I will not usually keep a fish smaller than 12” unless it is a Bluegill or a Crappie. Catch and release for little trout & bass is my MO.
Nice looking fish, and boat, and truck, and scenery!
Thank you. Before this was my boat it was someone else’s experimental boat, and before that I really have no clue How many times it has been modified.
Pine Flat is in the low mountains of the East San Joaquin Valley. I think the top spillway level is about 1100 feet. Nowhere close to that now although it is about 10 feet deeper than the last time we went, and is slowly coming up.
It is extremely dry at this lake in the summer. There are rattlesnakes that swim in the water from time to time.
I have personally seen two in the water, and one that came up on a boat as they pulled it out of the water. They are usually swimming down stream, and are easy to spot swimming in the water if you are looking.
They cannot latch onto your boat if you’re cruising, but if you are trolling at 2 miles an hour they can easily wrap around your engine/motor, and they tend to get sucked right towards it. Sometimes I see people trolling with their boat fenders dragging in the water and I think this is a prime way to let them climb right into the boat too.
I will try to get to some higher Mountain Lakes this year, but because of forest fires we were not able to go at all last year, and I don’t know what the conditions will really be until we get there.