06-04-2012, 07:41 PM
Timing is everything. You gotta know Saturday morning is testosterone time followed by beer and then things get out of hand. Where is the ranger when you need one? Places like Kingman get party action because they are accessible; the water tends to be flat and protected....the action however is just not as bad as Las Vegas Wash.
Nevertheless, if you can endure the noise, tow wakes and the Jet-tards there are still good opportunities to catch bass. I've noticed before a mudline or current against a rocky shoreline created by the boats can actually turn the bite on. Perhaps in high traffic areas the bass and stripers have adapted to the wave disturbance and use it to feed off the disoriented baitfish and crawdads. I'll cast right as the wake is hitting the shoreline. For some reason ...perhaps because a long cast from shore is over 80 ft deep...this place fishes different from Las Vegas Wash, Callville Bay or Crawdad Cove area.
The local tournament boys call this place "The Pig Pen"; there's a reason for that. [
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I saw your "rack" of lures. All good. I'd go with about 10 bullet weights (5/32oz and 3/16 oz.) and hook set ups for worm fishing and figure to lose half of them. Maybe 2 crank baits, That sexy shad is good, Your Spook for later and rig the senkos with a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG braid weight hook...no additional weight right now.
It's a bluegill and shad bite with some red/black craws in the mix, though I think purple/brown is also good. 10 drop shot weights in 1/4 oz and #2 or #4 drop shot hooks. Some Roboworms or equivalent. Aaron Martens had a good article on Mead worm colors..You might try searching on the internet. He won the US Open here 3 times so he must know something.
If you hiked out south from the parking area to the first point and then around the second cove to its main lake point (which is a good place...there is a shallow flat there and a deep drop into 80+ ft just beyond) ...you had about 300 yards of good territory to fish. The shore drops off steeply enough there the wakes are not such a big issue. With lowering water levels the quagga mussels are again becoming something to consider; the edges of their shells are razor sharp.
It was Gary Dobyns ( he won the US Open here in past years) who clued me to Mead; fish bite if you get the lure in front of them. If you don't get bit almost immediately then move on. Friday 6/1/2012 I was dead sticking a Senko (bluegill colors) and got bit twice while picking out an over run. I had 2 follows....I think because they are beginning to chase. The rest of the time I got bit within seconds of the lure touching down...not counting sink time, though sometimes they would hit it as it was sinking. I am transitioning from a dead-sticking or lift and drop technique to fishing a 5" grub or something with a bit more vibration as the water warms.
What The Whizzle said about a football head and craw bait I second.. That shore is good jig territory. Also a good place to use a glass bead and a bullet sinker with a worm to mimic the click sound of a crayfish. Check out the technique called "Doodle Sliding" if you don't know it.
I'm using liberal amounts of Megastrike on the plastic; I seldom get a rejection or a dropped bait...in fact I have pulled them a long way without the hook being stuck in them; they don't want to let go. You might consider a hollow body 4" shad swimbait...Lube this also and it will come through the cover better. Lately, a number of smallmouth bass have regurgitated small shad as they are coming to the boat.
If I were shore fishing in Kingman, I'd go Saturday afternoon, take a head light and plan to stay late. Preferably I'd go Sunday when everyone is either hung over or in church, with Sunday afternoon being a prime time. Once the shoreline shades and you get low light I'd consider throwing a smaller Vixen in shad color or a Lucky Craft Gunfish or 100 Pointer ( they are expensive however).
You can even catch fish listening to club mixes, trance, rap and classic rock and roll. [
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Nevertheless, if you can endure the noise, tow wakes and the Jet-tards there are still good opportunities to catch bass. I've noticed before a mudline or current against a rocky shoreline created by the boats can actually turn the bite on. Perhaps in high traffic areas the bass and stripers have adapted to the wave disturbance and use it to feed off the disoriented baitfish and crawdads. I'll cast right as the wake is hitting the shoreline. For some reason ...perhaps because a long cast from shore is over 80 ft deep...this place fishes different from Las Vegas Wash, Callville Bay or Crawdad Cove area.
The local tournament boys call this place "The Pig Pen"; there's a reason for that. [
] I saw your "rack" of lures. All good. I'd go with about 10 bullet weights (5/32oz and 3/16 oz.) and hook set ups for worm fishing and figure to lose half of them. Maybe 2 crank baits, That sexy shad is good, Your Spook for later and rig the senkos with a 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG braid weight hook...no additional weight right now.
It's a bluegill and shad bite with some red/black craws in the mix, though I think purple/brown is also good. 10 drop shot weights in 1/4 oz and #2 or #4 drop shot hooks. Some Roboworms or equivalent. Aaron Martens had a good article on Mead worm colors..You might try searching on the internet. He won the US Open here 3 times so he must know something.
If you hiked out south from the parking area to the first point and then around the second cove to its main lake point (which is a good place...there is a shallow flat there and a deep drop into 80+ ft just beyond) ...you had about 300 yards of good territory to fish. The shore drops off steeply enough there the wakes are not such a big issue. With lowering water levels the quagga mussels are again becoming something to consider; the edges of their shells are razor sharp.
It was Gary Dobyns ( he won the US Open here in past years) who clued me to Mead; fish bite if you get the lure in front of them. If you don't get bit almost immediately then move on. Friday 6/1/2012 I was dead sticking a Senko (bluegill colors) and got bit twice while picking out an over run. I had 2 follows....I think because they are beginning to chase. The rest of the time I got bit within seconds of the lure touching down...not counting sink time, though sometimes they would hit it as it was sinking. I am transitioning from a dead-sticking or lift and drop technique to fishing a 5" grub or something with a bit more vibration as the water warms.
What The Whizzle said about a football head and craw bait I second.. That shore is good jig territory. Also a good place to use a glass bead and a bullet sinker with a worm to mimic the click sound of a crayfish. Check out the technique called "Doodle Sliding" if you don't know it.
I'm using liberal amounts of Megastrike on the plastic; I seldom get a rejection or a dropped bait...in fact I have pulled them a long way without the hook being stuck in them; they don't want to let go. You might consider a hollow body 4" shad swimbait...Lube this also and it will come through the cover better. Lately, a number of smallmouth bass have regurgitated small shad as they are coming to the boat.
If I were shore fishing in Kingman, I'd go Saturday afternoon, take a head light and plan to stay late. Preferably I'd go Sunday when everyone is either hung over or in church, with Sunday afternoon being a prime time. Once the shoreline shades and you get low light I'd consider throwing a smaller Vixen in shad color or a Lucky Craft Gunfish or 100 Pointer ( they are expensive however).
You can even catch fish listening to club mixes, trance, rap and classic rock and roll. [
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