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Lake Mateos Fishing Report, December 2009
By Billy Chapman, Jr.At Lake Mateos, bass hang around rocky outcroppings, points or places with submerged woody cover, frequently in less than four feet of water. Sometimes, anglers catch bass right against the shorelines in almost no water at all. Dance white, pearl or salt and pepper flukes or Yumdingers through submerged trees. In deeper waters, crawl Carolina-rigged lizards in watermelon or black and blue over the bottom.
Brian O’Keefe, editor-in-chief of Catch magazine, joined Keith Kaneko, the director of the Anglers Inn International Fly Fishing Division, and several other long-rod enthusiasts on Lake Mateos last week. Brian will detail his Anglers Inn International experiences in an article that should appear in January. Strictly an online publication, the “Journal of Fly Fishing Photography, Video and Film” as Brian calls it, highlights fly fishing action from around the world. Read it at HYPERLINK www.catchmagazine.net
“If the fishing was any better, I’d get bored,” Brian said. “The fishing was incredibly good, but it’s the total package of food, staff, accommodations and fishing that makes staying at Anglers Inn so good. The service is embarrassingly good. They really take care of their guests.”
Brian caught most of his fish on poppers with white, green, yellow or brown and black producing the best action. He caught a lot of fish in the 4- to 6-pound range. A few anglers caught some topping 7 pounds.
“We were finding bass around sticks and trees or big boulders around the lake shorelines,” Brian explained. “When we found a combination of big boulders near trees in the water, we really caught fish. Some of the cliff bases were also fantastic. Sometimes, we’d hit a stretch of rock wall where all we caught were 4- to 6-pound bass. I even threw some giant poppers that I’ve use for peacock bass and sailfish and had six strikes in an hour.”
Looking for your own peacock bass experience? Join me on my next Amazon adventure, but don’t wait too long because we can only bring 12 anglers on this trip. We depart Jan. 27 for the Rio Negro, the major tributary of the Amazon River. We’ll stay aboard the 95-foot luxury yacht Captain Peacock. Joe Thomas, a top professional bass angler and host of Stihl’s Reel in the Outdoors, will shoot several television shows for the Outdoors Channel with us in the Amazon.
Anglers Inn
www.lakemateos.com
1-800-468-2347
