In this video I search for a big bass, teach a new angler about bass fishing and walk, walk and walk exploring Lake Irvine
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Large Mouth Bass Fishing. Exploring Lake Irvine and Teaching new angler about bass fishing.
Back in '83-'84 the water at Irvine was so high you could drive your boat up the river inlet where there were little islands of rock piles. We would rent a boat, drive to the river inlet, drive up the river and tie off on one of the islands, get out and set up for the day. Throw out two rods with inflated night crawlers, toss out between our island and the shore. The river was approx. 30'-40' wide and roughly 5'-8' feet deep. The trout would make their ways from the boat launch, where they were stocked, over to the river where they were stacked up like a trout farm. The water was never clear and mostly stained or muddy but that didn't matter, it probably helped keep the fish from being spooked. During these two years my brother, my cousin and I caught hundreds, maybe thousands of trout. Never a trout was less than a pound, most were 2 pounds and one or two were 5 plus. We have photo after photo of 15 trout on our front lawn and a crappie we would catch on our way out by trolling a small crankbait along the cliffs, bass we always throw back. We also threw back all trout we caught after our limit, they checked boats back then as they came back to the marina. I loved this lake back in the day. We found so many schools of fish many times; catfish stacked up in the opening of small coves, catching one every cast. Bass stacked up in the trees at the opening of the river inlet, catching them on spinnerbaits, shallow running crankbaits and split shotting small plastics. Of course I mentioned the crappie at the cliffs but we never caught large numbers of crappie like other species but enough for dinner. I just found out today that the lake is back open for $5 and I am heading there tomorrow. It was closed fo the public last time I heard, so happy to hear the news.
No wonder I couldn’t find the other channel.
I used to fish here back in the late 90s with my brother. Fishing was crazy, the water was wayyyyyyyyyyy higher, and admission was $20/person
you ever go back for bluegill? wonder where’s best to catch them.
Best lake in ic
Great information
The lake is so low now
Kvd shad crankbait works for me here. One bass every trip.. no joke.. definitely a lot of travel has to be done at this lake if your not on them…. My brothers and I fish there every other weekend, catfish has been hot for us lately… dig the local stuff man!
Great video, love to see fishing bros help each other out. I just moved to irvine from nyc, and back in new york the largemouth love 6' senkos or yums on texas rigs or dropshots. I have crankbaits, swimming shads, roboworms, yums, chatterbaits, and fake lizards but no jigs. I've been skunked my last 5 trips using black worms on texas rigs, what should I rig up??
Im local and starting to get back into fresh water fishing are you using a drop shot mainly when your fishing in Irvine or bass? Just picked up some chatterbaits with shad trailers as well so hoping that works when I go out next. Been using some other rapala lures but no luck besides a few small mouth bass from Santa ana river lakes.
What time or month were you at Irvine Lake bass fishing
Thanks for this video. I've been thinking about trying out Irvine Lake – $5 is a great price. When I heard about this lake several years ago, I heard it was $10 to fish there. That's cool that it's only $5 for parking now. Cheers.
Great video man like the teaching moment
We need set up trip fish together I got curado DC