Collins Lake

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Jerry Freeman of Live Oak started the month off with some night fishing for Catfish in Elmer’s Cove.  He used sardines and caught three cats, the biggest was 5 lb. 5 oz.  Billy Buickerood and Eli Kane used their own concoction and hooked a 5 lb. Cat as well but theirs was off the sand beach area.

The Zaski men hooked a monster Cat off the dock, that big guy weighed in at 17 lb. 8 oz. and they used frozen anchovies for their bait of choice.  Their friend Bailey Johnson landed a 6 lb. Cat the next night, also from the dock on anchovies.  Tanner Conyers hooked a 7 lb. CAT in front of his campsite on salmon eggs just today!

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Thanks to Craig Ogina for sending in the great pictures of his Catfish since the store was closed when they left.  His scale said 16 lb. 2 oz. and his daughter Adriana was struggling to hold it up on the scale to get a reading.

Elaine Briefman has been here three different days in the past week and caught a couple of trout and a few Bass which she released back in the lake.  The Bass were caught on a pink plastic worm she was tossing from the rental boat dock.  Jeanne Tong caught two Bass averaging 1-1/2 lb. each using top water plugs from her boat.  Rhonda Louie of San Carlos limited out on Bass (biggest 2-1/4 lb) and she also used top water plugs down by the dam.

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Congrats to Hannah Sebastiani who caught her 1st fish ever, tossing a nightcrawler from shore Ms. Hannah hooked a nice lil’ catfish.  Zack, Chase, Conner & Dillon just brought up a Catfish today for a photo, they were using PowerBait off the dock they said.  Melody Dudley fished from the dock and caught five Bluegill using worms for bait.

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Happy Birthday Loreen Jung from S.F. who spent it with us and hooked three Bass!! Loreen said she was fishing from a boat by the dam in approx. 15′ of water and using plastics.  Gary Deas from Lakeport caught trout while trolling a Needlefish near the dock.