Name: Anglers Inn Lake El Salto
Hottest Baits:
Zoom Lizards: 8-inch, watermelon, watermelon red flake, black with blue tail, and junebug.
Berkley Power Worms: 10-inch in black with blue tail, red shad and junebug.
Yamamoto Senkos, Yum Dingers and Bass Pro Shops Stinkos: 5- and 6-inch, watermelon, watermelon red flake and black with blue flake.
Storm WildEye Swim Shads: 4- and 5-inch in shad, white with chartreuse top and bunker.
Rat-L-Traps: ½ and ¾-ounce in silver with blue back and silver with black back.
Lobina Lures Rio Rico poppers: white, white with sparkles and bleeding shad.
Spinnerbaits: ½ and ¾-ounce with double silver willow blades in white and white/chartreuse.
Bomber Fat Free Shad and Rapala DT16 medium- and deep-diving crankbaits in citrus shad, hot mustard and fire tiger.
Heddon Zara Spook and Lucky Craft Sammy in clear, chrome with black top and white body.
Rapala X-Rap and 4- to 5-inch jerkbaits in white, clown and shad.
Water Temp : 80°-82°F
Air Temp: 82°-85°F (early morning); 89°-98°F (lunch time) 82°-85°F (late afternoon). Largest Bass Caught: 10 pounds, 4 ounce Comments:
New Season at El Salto Starting Off Right - By Billy Chapman
There’s good news for anglers planning a visit to Anglers Inn El Salto. We have not experienced torrential hurricane rains this year like those two years ago that caused the lake to rise more than 20 feet in just one day. Instead, the lake filled slowly over a longer period of time, which is much better for bass fishing. As the new fishing season started, the water level was at slightly more than full pool, with about a foot of water going over the spillway. The water level now has stabilized, and with few more rains to come, we are expecting another great season.
Bass patterns the past two weeks have been normal for a warm month like September, with most of the best fish being caught in deeper water. Swimbaits, plastics lizards and crankbaits have been the best midday lures. And during early morning and late afternoon, topwater plugs, Senkos and spinnerbaits have been doing the trick.
Here’s what some of our recent guests had to say about their trips.
Mike Ishikawa came down with his friend Lance Withee, but unfortunately for this pair of hardcore anglers, Lance found out he had a kidney stone, and, instead of fishing, had to spend his time at Sharp Medical Hospital in Mazatlan. Mike managed to get in a day and a half on the water, nevertheless. “I fished a full day on September 17 and a half day on September 18,” Mike said. “My last trip to Anglers Inn in March 2007 was spectacular, with my friend Bob and me catching 475 bass in 3-1/2 days. I was not expecting the same results this time because the lake was brim full and it was raining upon our arrival.
“Well, the fishing was just as spectacular as our March trip, and the quality was unbelievable. My first day ended with 107 bass, including 19 between 5 and 8 pounds. Trees that usually grow above the exposed shoreline were now overhanging the water, providing great bass cover. We could bass crashing baitfish under the trees. In the morning, we had a ball throwing wacky-rigged Senkos to the edge of the trees. The bass would attack even before the lure had a chance to sink to the bottom. Later in the morning, we switched to Rat-L-Traps, and, in the afternoon, Texas-rigged Senkos, Robo-worms and 10-inch Berkley red-shad worms worked just great.”
Day 2 was excellent for Mike as well. “What an incredible morning,” he said. “Our guide found a shallow bay loaded with large bass. We threw Rico poppers and landed nothing but large bass, many times with double hookups. One 7-pounder attacked the popper four times before I finally set the hook. After the surface bite slowed slightly, we moved to a deeper section of the same bay, and jerkbaits and wacky Senkos revived the hot bite all over again. The final count for the half-day of fishing was 58 bass, most over 3 pounds. These included bass weighing 6-5, 5-6, 3-7, 3-8 and one topping 9 pounds. I’m convinced anytime is a great time to experience the fantastic fishing at Anglers Inn.”
And how about Mike’s friend Lance? Well, he’s doing just fine and sent us this note: “Words aren’t adequate to express the depth of my gratitude to you and your organization for all you did for me. Thanks to you, I am now back in San Diego and well into recovery mode. Without you, I am well aware I could have floundered around in pain and confusion, and things could have been very different. Thank you for getting personally involved from the outset, and thank you again for your care, concern and attention throughout the rest of the ordeal. I am looking forward to visiting Angler's Inn again in December and many more times in the future. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!”
Ronnie and Leslie Corbin, also were among the September visitors and here’s what they have to say: "After arriving at the lodge in the early afternoon, we went out for an afternoon of fishing. On our second stop, we got into a bite off the point of an island. My wife Leslie, who is new to bass fishing, landed a 9.4-pound bass using a Norman DD14 crankbait in the chartreuse/blue color. What a thrill! I landed a 7.10-pound bass on chrome Norman. It was a great afternoon. Although we found high water and scattered bass, we experienced excellent topwater bites early morning and tons of quality bass up to 9 pounds. My last cast produced a 8.3 pound bass in front of the lodge on a 10" Berkley powerworm in the black/blue color." Vern Leder and his two sons recently fished El Salto as well, and here is what Vern had to say: “Any time I can go with my boys and they catch enough fish to make them want to go again is a successful trip. We are ready to come back! “My son Henry landed some nice bass, including two 8-pound-plus fish. His most productive baits were a junebug lizard and Pop-Rs. Drew also landed an 8.11-pound bass and said to tell you there was great fishing in early morning on topwaters and in late afternoon on worms and swimbaits.”
John Christie came down with the Leders and it was he who caught the biggest bass of the group, a real hawg that tipped the scales at 10.4 pounds. He caught this monster bucketmouth on a 5-inch swimbait and also landed a 9.6-pounder the same afternoon.
And how about these impressive numbers from Benton, Arkansas, angler Tracy Harmon? Top 5 bass per day:Day 1 – 44 poundsDay 2 – 37 poundsDay 3 – 37 poundsDay 4 – 30 pounds Tracy’s 20 biggest bass weighed in at an impressive 148 pounds. His biggest weighed 9 pounds, and he landed many bass in the 5- to 8-pound range. As one can see, the fishing at El Salto is stronger than ever. With the weather starting to cool down, the topwater bite should be getting even stronger, and those big bass will be moving out of 20- to 30-foot depths and holding closer to the surface. This report we have a tie for the big fish between John Christie and Robert Roupeman. Both anglers reported their biggest bass weighing 10.4 pounds. Have you caught your 10-pounder yet?
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