Rvr 11/3

[AVA67]

Hit up Round Valley for the first time in probably 10 years this morning. Fishing from shore 6:30-8:15 am and caught the skunk. Same for the other few guys there. A decent amount of fish were seen jumping, finning, and in the case of what appeared to be a 22" or so brown just cruising by. I tried shiners, mealworms, and spinners they just didn't want to eat.

What made the morning however was one of the best freshwater sunrises I have seen in a long time. I also had a osprey circling over me for the better part of 1/2 an hour. Not to mention the three rag-horned bucks I saw chasing a doe at 6:25 on the way into the park. All in all a great way to start my day.

[Super]

Usually the smallmouth are feeding like crazy at sunrise. Were you using shiners?

[AVA67]

always had a shiner in the water the entire time there, sometimes on both rods, i just don't think they were on the feed.

[catfishonthelake]

Awesome pic Braden. I got snubbed by the truchas on the SB this afternoon. It's easy to enjoy slow days with sorroundings like that though.

[Mark B.]

On 11/4, @ RVR, hiked to the eastern shore, as the wind conditions were almost ideal, blowing pretty good straight out of the North. Catch 'em best when it’s NW.

Started the drill, wading (about knee deep) & casting a Yo Zuri, moving north. Way, way off in the distance, is a bass boat (literally the only boat on the res.) w/ 2 guys, pretty far off the same, approx. 1.5 mile long shoreline, casting towards it, drifting my way.

As they got closer, the one guy yelled something to me about “water, shallow” I couldn’t make it out in the wind. Thought maybe he was warning me about wading: that it was shallow, but gets deep, u know,…to be careful. Finally, I hear him: “Hey, you’re wading & splashing in the shallows scaring all the fish along this entire eastern shore away!” I said, “What?”….I thought he was kidding. He wasn’t! “Yeah, you’re scaring all of them, you, %^&**$)%^# !!!!”

I shook my head, & yelled: “Yeah, right, …relax,……good luck!!”

He continued to curse & go nuts as they drifted by. I kept fishing,……then hooked & landed a 16” brown ,…it jumped twice (hope he saw it!). That was the only fish I caught. I must’ve scared the others away.

Got to be THE lamest excuse for not catching fish that I ever heard. I've heard alot of them.

[FASTEDDIE29]

LOL, thats a funny story. Elitist trout fisherman at RVR, they think they know everything..... HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[AndyS]

2 good reports in here, thanx !