C- Rigging Lizards@ El Salto

[Bass_Akwards]

I reccomend that if you fish El Salto  you C- Rig lizards.  Why?  Here's why, as well as a few other shots I took of the amazing cover, points, beautiful water, and some football fish I caught.

[FR0G]

I want to go to el salto so bad. Looks like you had a blast.

[SDoolittle]

Great pics!

[islandbass]

Excellent report and pics. Do you know if you can just show up at El Salto and start fishing? That's what I would do if I could. I could pass as a local and know enough Spanish to buy a beer. ;D

[LooksLikeSinbad]

That looks awesome! Thanks for sharing the photos.

[DADto4]

Wow, what a beautiful place...I've heard stories but never seen pics.

Awesome!

[TrippyJai]

1 word. HEAVEN.

i wish i can spend every weekend fishing there. it's such a beautiful place.

[fishizzle]

hopefully someday

nice fish

[Bass_Akwards]

I think I noticed some people fishing from shore.  There are a few houses on the lake, including my guides house.  There were a couple old roads leading in there as well.  It's a huge body of water.  About 27,000 acres if I'm not mistaken.

The water temp when i was there recently was amazing at 91 degrees.  All we did all day, from sun up to sun down, is catch 6,7, and 8 pound bass.  4's and 5's were just a dink.  We pulled in a couple double digit bass and I guarentee if I was there for 3 days, i'd have caught a 13+.  Almost everyone I talked to who stayed there 3 days caught an 11 or bigger.

It's completely surreal.  You sit in the boat and with all motors off, all you hear, every half second - two seconds, is bass swirling and jumping and hunting in the water, and bait fish running and jumping for their lives.  Big schools of Talapia and Shad everywhere!  Protein!  That's all these bass do is swim, and eat protein all day, it's rediculous!

Go down there in Feb and March when they spawn for a week and try and catch a world record!  Although I think the next world record might very well come out of CUBA!!!!!!  I've been there, and never fished, and i regret it.  There's some lakes in Cuba that hold some serious treasure bass.  Go google Cuba Bass fishing.

[islandbass]

Thanks. I'm going to Mazatlan in January next year, but I won't be going to El Salto unless I can fish from the shore. Else, I'll be fishing from the beach close to the hotel area or lighthouse. 8-)

[Sam]

Thanks for those great pics.

Sounds like you had a wonderful time.

Let us know when you are going back.  

[Bass_Akwards]

Nice Island Bass!  where are you staying in Mazatlan and why whon't you be hitting El Salto?  400 bucks or so gets you 3 awesome meals, all the water and margaritas you can drink, plus fishing licence, guide, and 12 hours in heaven!  Go if you can bro, you'll absolutely NEVER forget it.  

Only problem with El Salto is that fishing it makes you so d**n spoiled.  Now i'm scared when i catch a 4 pounder here in Boulder, 'm just gunna laugh at it and let it go like a dink.

[islandbass]

Is that all? For some reason I was thinking it was more expensive. Hmmm......  You've got me reconsidering.  I am only going there for about 10 days, and the purpose of the trip is to help my wife bring all her stuff back home and the kids too.  ;D

Mazatlan is my wife's home town, but she doesn't care to fish. So any $$ that would have been spent on hotels could be diverted to a fishing trip. Yee ha!!!!!

I agree. I am afraid of getting spoiled too. Living in the Pacific Northwest, a 4 lb bass is a hawg.  

Thanks again. My brain is already trying to calculate the logistics and formulate the plans.

[Redlinerobert]

Beautiful pictures!

[fishinfiend]

I think it is time for me to start putting aside some money. I would love to go there.

BR trip?

[Bass_Akwards]

I guarentee, if someone here puts together a three day bass trip on BR, and we get 4,5,6,7,8+ guys, I could get us a killer deal at a great lodge.  

I'm talking about $250.00 a day or so, which would include all the margaritas you can drink, all the water and juice you can drink, a great breakfast, delicious lunch, tasty dinner, and a room to sleep in. Not top mention a great guide, fishing license, gas, etc etc.

No guarentees but I became friendly with the manager and gave him a bunch of my photos for his website.  He said he'd set me up good if i ever come back, especially with a crew.

You guys think fishing is fun now?  Just wait until the motor starts up on the boat and you start heading to the most rediculous cover and structure you've ever seen.  And when you get there, it's literally one 7 pounder after another, all day long. (until you catch a 13# of course)

Let me know if theres a bunch of people who want to go and I'll TRY and set soethign up for a big group.  Feb and March is when spawn is and the fish get huge.  June and July is when fishing is at it's "peak" and I can almost guarentee, you'll pull in 50-100 fish every day.  Most likely 75-100.  I pulled in about 40 fish when i went and it was not close to the best time of year.

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[BubbiesBass]

Those pictures just made my day.

New to the forum, I joined after googling "bass fishing near boulder, co" and found BassAkward's post looking for CO bass fishers.

I moved out to Boulder from Detroit last year. While its hard to make an argument for Detroit over Boulder, I do miss Bass fishing! We used to go out and pull 30-40 3+ lb. LMB a day out of the many lakes in Metro Detroit. Now in Boulder, I get my fly line caught in tree's, and have memories of the one LMB my girlfriend pulled out of Lagerman Res. last summer.

My point is: I NEED HELP!!!! If I don't lip a LMB soon, I'm going to lose my sanity.

[Bass_Akwards]

Two words.......

Google  Earth

So many ponds, lakes, and resoviours in the Boulder area it's almost insane.  Don't get me started on how many there are in the Denver metro area.

Just caught a 4 pounder in Boulder 35 minutes ago on a spinnerbait.

[CODbasser]

those pics practically have me drooling...eehhhh eeehhh....thats awesome man! can you take your own boat or do you have to use theirs??

[looking4structure]

WOW those are some great pics.U really hammered them.

[roadwarrior]

Beautiful pics, awesome fish!

8-)

[Tin]

Great place to go get some confidence in the c-rig.

Nice pics.

[skeetermike]

I've got all the confidence in that C-rig I need.  I just need an oppertunity to go to a place like El Salto to get my line broke a few times!  That would truly be a trip of a lifetime, great pics.  

[Rand]

I would absolutely LOOOOOOOOOOOVE to fish El Salto!!!!!!!!!!! $250 a day is what you could pay in the states for a guide???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????

Hook it up

Rand