4-17-11 AM

Today I guided Allen and Denise Wells, and Dave and DJ Lacroix on a striper fishing trip. We met at the Colusa State Park at 5:45 AM launched the boat and headed up stream. We began the morning working our way up the river trolling and managed to catch 5 fish on lures but the fish were scattered so we came up with a new game plan. We found a likely spot and anchored up with minnows as the bait of choice. Within minutes we had a hook up and a nice 8 pounder in the box. We continued to catch fish after fish on the minnows. Most of the fish were keeper sized but we did catch 6 or 8 shakers of the 25 fish that we landed. The big fish today was a 14 pound hen that Denise chose to let go for the sake of our future fisherman. It was a great morning on the water and we headed in at 11:30 AM, so that the guys could get back to their tractors.

Casey