Hot Side Dish

Just got back from a week long trip to Beardsley Reservoir up in the Sierras off hwy 108. Rained a lot the first 4 days but we still managed to enjoy ourselves.
Over the week we had 10 guys show up. Only 3 of us were there the whole time. Sunday night and Monday were glorious as we had the whole place to ourselves.
The lake itself was higher than anyone can ever remember and we have been going on this trip every year for 15 years. I actually took my boat up to about 1/4 mile from the power house for the upstream reservoir, Dardenell. I didn't even know it was there before this trip and I have hiked up as far as I could go!
The fishing was not great compared to previous years but we caught some fish. Mostly German Browns with a few Rainbows. Usually it's the other way around.
The Rapalas we normally are killing them with produced nothing so we switched to wedding rings with worms following flashers. This at least produced some. We tried everything including night fishing with lights and nothing was really effective continually.
Ran downriggers off and on due to more dang problems with my Lowrance unit, locking up, turning itself off, losing GPS connection, misreading depths, AHHHHRRRRGGG. Finally did a hard reboot and it straightened up. Now I don't have any of my saved waypoints or tracks.
Here are a couple of pics of some of the catch. I'll post more when some of the guys send them to me.
The boat did excellent other than my baitwell pump refused to run. I'll look into it as I get time.
The "Easy Troller" plate worked excellent and will be even better after I do a little more adjustment to my BMS stabilizer allowing the trolling plate to drop easier.
There was so much debri in the water I never got to WOT for fear of hitting a tree floating along. Serious trees 40 ft or more in length and chunks 4 foot in diameter.
It was really nice to be able to leave the boat rigged up and just go drop it in the water when we wanted to fish. There were 2 other boats, 1 had the motor sieze up from no water pumping,(lack of maintenance), and the other seemed to be having fuel mixture and impellor problems. Triumph and Yamaha ROCK!
An update, The guy pictured in the red raingear was killed in a work related vehicle accident 1 week after this trip. I went to his funeral last week along with several others from the trip. Rest in Peace Dereck Silva. He was 39 with a great wife and 3 boys he loved totally.