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Santa Margarita Lake Fish Report for 8-23-2015


Santa Margarita Fishing Report

Santa Margarita Lake - CA (San Luis Obispo County)


by Santa Margarita Lake Staff
8-23-2015
805-438-1522
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Water temperature is 80F. Crappie still biting mini jigs in the White Oak area,some anglers reporting as many as 15 slabs a piece. Bass fishing has been fair to good on a variety of baits. Frogs, jigs, flukes, and senkos all caught fish to 6lbs this past week. Windy days have been the most productive. Fly-lining cut mackerel resulted in some nice catches of the larger blue cats, as well as some channels, and bullheads. Once again, White Oak was the best area for the whiskerfish. Both bluegill, and red ear took the week off.

Bass: Good
Bluegill: Poor
Catfish: Fair
Crappie: Good
Redear: Poor


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