Kimball Creek is a lake in Napa County, California.
Kimball Creek is a lake in Napa County, California and covers about 18.6 acres.
Kimball Creek is small water, so a careful lap around the bank can show most of the useful cover.
Fish listed for Kimball Creek include Black Crappie, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, Green Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, Sacramento Blackfish, Sacramento Pikeminnow, Sacramento Sucker, Rainbow Trout, and Threespine Stickleback.
When black crappie are the target on Kimball Creek, fish a small jig or minnow around wood, weeds, and sharp little drops.
To begin with bluegill on Kimball Creek, use a small jig, worm, or tiny plastic around green weeds and protected pockets.
A useful largemouth bass plan on Kimball Creek is to work a soft plastic, jig, or spinnerbait around weeds and protected cover.
The first channel catfish pass on Kimball Creek should fish cut bait or a nightcrawler on the bottom along a channel edge or warm flat.
Other targets listed here include Rainbow Trout, and Common Carp; give each one its own bait and depth instead of trying to catch everything with the same rig; watch water color during the day.
Start where two things meet: weeds and open water, rock and mud, a point and a drop, or clear water and dirty water; fish that edge at more than one depth before leaving it; work a creek turn before a flat bank, then use the old channel as a guide.
Shallow water is worth a careful look in spring and again during fall; bright summer days favor shade, weeds, or deeper breaks; under ice, a small depth change can be more useful than a long move; follow the outside weed line, then pause longer when cold water slows the bite.
A light spinning rod, thin line, a few small spoons, inline spinners, and jigs cover the listed trout; carry one slightly heavier setup when other fish or windy water call for more control; note the exact cover that gives a bite; start where bait gathers, then return to productive water when light changes.
Record the wind, water color, depth of the first good pass, and cover after a bite; those four notes are more useful on the next trip than a long list of spots that did not produce; compare shallow and deeper water.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.