A Surprise From Lamont

[gstott]

I've been working on figuring out some new bass waters since the Twin Lakes Canal Company closed access to its waters. I was giving Lamont a try the other day, and while I did finally hook into a nice sized bass there (which ly threw the hook) the real surprise came shortly after.

The water is very high for this time of year so I was pitching a wacky worm to flooded brush when I hooked into this guy.

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I was rather surprised to have caught him since I've never heard of cutthroat being in Lamont and see no mention of them on the stocking records. The only thing I can think of is that it came downstream from a small creek up in the drainage, went through Johnson, down the spillway and into Lamont. Kind of a fun fluke catch.
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[jeremypeace]

Cool. I was hopping to see a muskie pic though to be honest.. pretty irritated at twin lakes canal for throwing a fit over the dam denial though..
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[gstott]

I'll admit a musky would have been more exciting. I still think I would have been less surprised by it though seeing as I know there are still a few in there. I can't find any record of cutties ever being planted in there. It must have been a wild fish washed down from further up in the watershed at some point.

It seems like every time that canal company gets denied on this project they do something spiteful.
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[jeremypeace]

Still a cool fish non the less.there is 3 creeks that dump into lamont one big main one. And the chances of cutts being in one of them is there.. which is cool to.see one caught but I hope F&G don't decide it's a possibility to have a cutt come back there and they kill it off to try and bring them back..
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[gstott]

I actually caught it right where the creek comes in. For some reason I figured that was just coming down from Johnson above, but looking at Google Earth, I can see it skirts around the side of Johnson.

I would hope they wouldn't kill it off. There aren't many places left to chase bass in my tube anymore.
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