Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3706 March 2-16, 2018 | Page 22

20 March 2 - 16, 2018 MAP FEATURE VOL.37 • ISS. 06 Camanche offers great populations of largemouth and spotted bass, as well as rainbow trout, channel catfish, crappie and bluegill for anglers to pursue. Photo by ALBERT BERENDS, Granite Bay. Lake Camanche Bass Fishing Great for Numbers & Size Y ou can enjoy both numbers and size when it comes to fishing for black bass on Lake Camanche. Just ask Albert Berends, former Fish Sniff- er staffer and avid bass angler, who reported the trip of a lifetime on the East Bay Municipal Utility District reservoir, located on the Mokelumne River in the rolling Mother Lode foothills east of Lodi. On Wednesday, February 7, Berends and his fishing buddy Wayne O’Hal- loran of Rocklin decided to go to Camanche after a previous trip to New Melones Reser- voir, where they had caught a lot of bass while vertically jigging. To say the fishing started off slow at Camanche was an understatement. “We fished all morning until noon with no action,” said Berends. “We looked at one point and it appeared like it was worth fishing. We looked on the fish finder and the fish were load- ed from 30 to 50 feet deep l