Darth-Baiter

A local lake. Lake Sonoma went up almost 9 feet

I’m gonna grab a few lucky craft jerks. They have great looking colors. Example. Sexy Shad is….well sexy! you save half the money I think. I recently got some jerkbait success. It’s a fun bite. Better than the hard stop you get when your crankbait gets hit. I love how you’re paused and just waiting when you feel the bass hit. So much fun. It’s exciting anticipating the slam.

I’ll occasionally eat a LMB. Mostly because of accidental kill. They are okay. I do a whole steamed fish Cantonese style. My fav freshwater fish to eat is the walleye.

Rain was spectacular. My two local lakes flooded out. one looks like chocolate milk. The other one flooded gently. Well it simply filled up. Interesting what this does to the bite. I imagine ph or something

Sideways rain pushed by 40mph gust! Sweet. Got in some fishing in yesterday. Today it’s all about tying new knots and watching fishing videos. I’d drown outside. it is coming down big time. My local ponds/lakes will fill up significantly, but the big reservoirs will need several similar events I suppose.

Ito Natural.

You should see what I think six inches look like.

Fished an incoming rainstorm. (Yay! Rain!) I was just about to get skunked. I got one on the dropshot but it felt like pure luck. My buddy started in with the jerk bait. He got two for two! I grabbed my jerk bait setup and started casting and casting and casting……. Nothing he would keep catching. He loaned me a Vision110jr in the same color and I got one. I slooooowwwwed it way down. I would cast it as far as a dared (risking the bird nest) and jerk it hard to get it to dive. Then full stop. 15-30 second pause, then two gentle jerks and pick up the slack…and pause. They would smash it on the long pause! It was so exciting sitting still waiting/hoping for a bite. I tie on my own goldish- color vision 110 for the added weight so I could cast further and hit a 2lb in the rain! i need to buy one the same color as his, it was the hot pattern by a long shot. I gave him $25 to find me one at his shop in the city. Fingers crossed.

All valid points. My friend uses a Nucano frontier 10 or something. He doesn’t even have a FF yet installed. ( I gave him my Garmin) me and my Hobie; I am so much faster setting up and breaking down. I like a mounted transducer simply so I didn’t have to mess with it ever again. I just plug in lake side and I’m off. There is enough stuff to move and strap down as it is. something to think about. You got a great boat bud. I love his frontier. The seat seems too heavy tho. It’s like a real chair! best of luck. Outfitting my kayak was pretty fun.

Thx.

Thanks bud. It’s the one item I keep forgetting to add. I’ve used a scent stick before. Easy application for sure. you just rub in some gel? crayfish?

where are you located bud? I’m in Santa Rosa. im thrilled for the rain. I was smiling on my traffic jammed commute just enjoying the sounds of my wipers.

I suffered badly. Grew in the southwest where the official shade tree is the fruitless mulberry. It was crippling. Move to here and it was something else that was d**n near year round. I gave up and called my doc. I dropped a few key words like “quality of life” “ affecting my sleep” and she sent me to another doctor. We tried a prescription nasal spray. It was profoundly life changing. Took about 10 days to adjust to the dosage but it has stopped it cold. 100%. Now I only have to blast my nose when I first feel the tickle. It stopped my watery eyes and itchy throat too. call your doc.

Oh it’s happening. It’s raining and raining enthusiastically throughout the region. Straight 8 days of rain. There’s is a slight reprieve Saturday morning and I’m thinking about head to toe rain gear. In my kayak. fish gets frenzied in rain right?

I would do a Hail-Mary first before I use a transducer arm. I would try doing that silicon install inside the hull (google it) and see if it worked. The goal is a big bubble less homogeneous glob of silicon to nestle the transducer in so it may shoot readings thru the hull.

Gah. I’m loaded for bear. Gassed up and was prepped to drive 2 hours to a remote lake. Half of it on a dirt mountain road. I check weather. It was supposed to rain in the evening after I’m long gone. Nope. It moved forward. That road turns to snot. No thanks. On the bright side: no wind. Haha. oh well. We need rain badly. I’ll stay local and harass the nursery fish. I came this close to going back to bed. rain! Haha. I think I know my rain dance. Try going to a remote lake.

Bigger fish seem to hit the jig for me. But I’m a worm guy all year long. But yea late winter I’m throwing a finess jig all the time.

I am. A huge fishing store.

my local Dicks has the tiniest fishing section. It’s downright cute. One in a nearby town is pretty huge and substantial. But they are the only fishing stores and can support the business. My town we have lots of competition.

Haha. I just downloaded the vid. I’ll see if I can pull up a still image.

Launched my kayak at 1st light. Fussed with bait choices last minute. The one bait I did have tied on was a t-rigged large TRD zman. I pitched it out far. A couple of reels-in and I thought my eyes were playing tricks . My line was trembling. Then it moved. I snap back and it was early morning excitement. No coffee needed to knock the sleep off. It was the most gentle bait swallow of my life. my tiny neighbor hood lake had a 4lb fish. oh funny story. My friend bought Curado BFS and paired it with a Phenix recon 6’8”. He insisted I take first cast. I said “no”. He wouldn’t let up so I took his rod and let the tiny jerk bait fly. Rod felt too stiff for me. Well I proceeded to bury his brand new reel under an epic backlash. It was not salvageable. Haha. I caught the yard sale on my GoPro. Cussing (me) and laughing (him). the fish.

It started off Slloooooowww. I got two dinks and was celebrating the no-skunk day. Then I got a third. 1 lb. I called my wife and asked if she wanted to go out for breakfast with me. She said yes! oh. I played bookie from work. I was headed to the loading area on my kayak. I saw them! Deep. Water was 67 deg. Blue bird day. I started throwing soft plastics. Drop shot. Texas rigged weightless which I let sink agonizingly slow. Both offerings were FIRE! I had 10 for 10 at one time. The lake only had one other fisherman. A 72 year old dude in a belly boat. He was asking me what I was doing……”Dropshot! Deep! ‘. The guy had heard me call my wife and reminded me to call here back. Oops. She was cool with me staying. he rigged up like me an got no love. I approached him with some of my worms and it turned on for him. I lost count at 25. Oh what a day. It totally derailed my plans of the CA delta tomorrow. Winds are up there anyways. . And I’m finishing up antibiotics this week. Let’s just say my guts have a hair-trigger.!! A 2 hr drive might not be in my best interest tomorrow. Haha.

Had a med sized bass short strike my wake-B today. Very exciting, but he didn’t want seconds. Total quitter. im still tied on fir tomorrow. Mine is a fish lab shad looking thing.

Back in the day. A Sassy Shad swimbait. So much fun. It’s been decades since the caught a white bass.

I saw one on my buddys boat dash board. Just rattling around. I bought one on a whim. Throw it anywhere I would throw a whopper plopper? Buzz bait? ive neve owned one before. Looks interesting.