The late fall fishing up at Bridgeport Reservoir is really starting to turn on. As always, I'm spending some time (4 weeks) up here in the eastern high sierra's and enjoying some outstanding fishing.

The crowds are basically zero now. Three of the last 6 days I have been the only boat on the lake. This makes the fishing all the better with VERY low pressure. The weather is something to watch up here as I have been caught in some bad storms on the lake. With the next few days of weather looking questionable I figured I better get out again Thursday.

Yesterday (Thurs Oct 18) while enjoying a beautiful fall day trolling Bridgeport I hooked into some very nice fish. I had one brown hit so hard he broke me off almost as fast as he hit. He did jump and looked to be in the 5-7 lb range before seperating my new 4lb test line. SHUCKS! I know 4lb sounds light but I have landed browns up to and over 10 lbs on that light line.

I had many strikes while trolling and landed a Very nice 3 lb rainbow and an even nicer 3 1/2 lb brown. Typical of this time of year the quality is far better than quantity. I have had days of only one rainbow landed and days of 3 rainbows & one brown as my best day trolling so far. I always seem to get many strikes but a lot of the time they don't "stick" while trolling.

I'll be here a few more weeks and will keep you posted as I expect the action to improve as the weather gets worse. I'll attach photos.