Cachuma Lake Fishing Report

Cachuma Lake - Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara County)


by Cachuma Lake Staff
2-15-2021
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As of February 14th, 2021 the lake capacity was at 64%,

The bass are almost in their pre-spawn bass fishing season! The water temps have been slowly rising, which is a good indication these bass will be moving into shallow waters to feed up before the spawn. Male bass will be the firsts ones to move up first. The females will be behind the males, usually on secondary points in coved or off of key isolated structure.

To catch these prespawn bass you’ll want to use jigs, swimbaits, and craw soft-plastics. Focus on using bluegill, crawfish, and shad patterns. If fishing shallow use red/bluegill colors. If fishing deeper, focus on using shad colors, as the shad will be in deeper waters.wind is your friend in the prespawn. You’ll want to fish wind blown banks as this pushed bait fish into shallow water. If fishing in the wind use moving baits as it will put off more vibration and flash to help those bass key in on your baits.

 Trout and crappie are biting too. Trolling is the name of the game for crappie and trout. They mostly have been biting by the island on the backside use bright colored lures .

We are open at 7am and the last boat goers out at 2pm and boats must be returned by 4pm.



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