The Conconully Trip

[Dustin07]

Instead of beating a dead horse I'll let Quad's old Okanagon thread died and start my new one. We landed in Conconully Wednesday, but I didn't get to drop a line till Thursday. I keep setting new personal bests on the bass. a couple decent fighters around 1lb+ and today I landed one just a hair under 3lbs on ultra light tackle and a 4'6" rod :P

My new favorite lure.. was a bass fry colored rapala. It's been killing the dinks. I've probably landed 50 or so already this weekend with the boat about 30' from the shoreline and just casting in to the rocks and draggin it out..

but we wanted something bigger... switched to a drop shot with a black plastic worm about 18" up and started nailing some good fighters. Constantly finding 1-2lb fish striking deeper with that drop shot.

I stilldon't like the senkos though. the power bait worms seem to let the fish bite better. the senkos just seem to big and clunky... but maybe my fishjust aren't big enough for them..

I'll probably get pics up tomorrow or tuesday when we get home.



There are soooo many dinks out here... i Know there are more of the bigger guys too, but I need to try some different stuff that drags the bottom in a noisy way. I've heard rumors of 6-7lb fish coming out of these waters. one guy said 8lb... but I don't know about that.

[The Quadfather]

Glad to hear of your trip. My son is going up there next weekend with a friends family. It sounds like at least there many small bass to be easily had.

[Dustin07]

Great opportunity to get people at least catching! The powerbait slingers (which I did partake for about an hour) were catching like crazy too. I found that a drop shot yielded the biggest bass but If i had more time out there I would have tried some other things. Finally got a couple pics up on photobucket:






they're not huge, but they're my biggest yet! Still getting bigger and bigger... that Confidence thing bassers talk about is starting to make sense now. Learning new techniques and how to apply them. The drop shot... finally paying off. I've been working on all spring and summer and never gave up. finally starting to land fish with it!

[Dustin07]

unfortunately, there has been talk of killing off the lake to start over with all trout. that's too bad because there are some nice bass up there. I did make a donation to the local trout stock fund though. take a penny leave a penny...

[Bodofish]

Were you fishing in the "reservoir" or in the lake, which is a reservoir too. Originally dammed up to move timber down the valley. I much prefer the upper lake, much bigger fish no matter what you're fishing for. Trolling for big bows and browns or casting for bass it doesn't really matter it's a much nicer day on the water when you're not just sitting in the punch bowl..........

[Dustin07]

Were you fishing in the "reservoir" or in the lake, which is a reservoir too. Originally dammed up to move timber down the valley. I much prefer the upper lake, much bigger fish no matter what you're fishing for. Trolling for big bows and browns or casting for bass it doesn't really matter it's a much nicer day on the water when you're not just sitting in the punch bowl..........

this was the 10 year anniversary of my first trip to Conconully, when I met my now wife. We took our 2 month old son, so it was kind of a neat trip. we met on the upper, but have always stayed at Shady Pines on the lower ever since. We scoutted the upper lake this weekend but never bothered pulling the boat out of the lower! We should have though, even the locals all say the bigger fish come out of the upper lake.