Rough one today folks.  First time fishing from a kayak.  I borrowed it from my brother in law.   Spent more time repositioning and orienting than actually fishing.  
 

Got two bites, got them both to the boat then promptly lost both at the boat as I fumbled around with my rod and paddle while trying to lip them and not capsize at the same time.  
 

Few lessons learned:

 

- Need a larger kayak.  I’m not a huge guy but I was super cramped and when you add two rods and an over the shoulder tackle bag I felt like I was flying economy with Southwest.

 

- Net is required equipment.  I used to wonder why folks in kayaks/canoes didn’t just lip them.  Now I see why.  

- Strongly considering a peddle drive of some sort.  Have to constantly pick up the oar and put down my rod was not the most efficient use of my fishing time.
 

 

@bp_fowler: Kayak fishing requires organization, for sure. 

 

@Jmurphy87: I'm just glad you're fishing...and catching, regardless of their size.

 

@Way north bass guy: I never tire of pics of your river.

 

@The Baron and @NorcalBassin: Kids rule and dads drool!

 

@OHBuckets: That omelet: YUM!

 

 

 

 

13 hours ago, NorcalBassin said:

Fish were mostly noncompliant, so it was nice being distracted by this eagle on the shore we were working. 

 

First, most, and biggest again... kid needs to go back to college 😆

 

Yep, that was it for me...

 

The consolation is that you taught her to fish !!

Got out for about 3 hours after work  this afternoon until a couple.rumbles of thunder chased me off. Caught 5 bass with 1 decent one weighing  3-15  on a frog. 

I didn't get to fish at all last year due to illness, back injury, and hospitalization for heart rythym issues. Got back out there finally this here and here is my first bass that I caught since returning to the waters. Ironically nothing bit bass baits that say, but I got it, along with some nice shellcracker on nightcrawlers with my light set up

@BluegillsTightlines: Hooray! 

11 minutes ago, BluegillsTightlines said:

I didn't get to fish at all last year due to illness, back injury, and hospitalization for heart rythym issues. Got back out there finally this here and here is my first bass that I caught since returning to the waters. Ironically nothing bit bass baits that say, but I got it, along with some nice shellcracker on nightcrawlers with my light set up

Nice Bass ~

Bet that felt good !

Here's to continued health and more bass for you

Congrats

A-Jay

 

1 minute ago, ol'crickety said:

@BluegillsTightlines: Hooray! 

And boy did that feel sooooooooooo good after having to miss an entire season of fishing. I had legit wondered if I would.have forgot how to react when I saw the line taking off, ha!

 

Just now, A-Jay said:

Nice Bass ~

Bet that felt good !

Here's to continued health and more bass for you

Congrats

A-Jay

 

Oh it felt amazing!!!

58 minutes ago, BluegillsTightlines said:

I didn't get to fish at all last year due to illness, back injury, and hospitalization for heart rythym issues. Got back out there finally this here and here is my first bass that I caught since returning to the waters. Ironically nothing bit bass baits that say, but I got it, along with some nice shellcracker on nightcrawlers with my light set up

 

A good 'un too! Congrats, and here's to many more going forward.

It's once again Multi Species Monday!!!

3.08# Best of many landed. Several over 2#, and lost a big 'ol bucket mouth at boatside. 

Didn't weigh the eye, but it's 3+.

34" ski.

 

I miss multi-species outings. When I fished the Mississippi, I'd have seven species days. Sometime nine species days!

On a white 3/8 chatterbait

Been getting on them at a neat spot on the Nolin River. Lost most of these lures too!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here we are a private lake with willing participants. I try new colors, techniques, and new spots on the 2 acre lake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Found a decent first light bite. 1.8, 3.1, 3.3, 5.2. Big Bite Baits Jerk Minnow.

@PhishLI

 

 

I've been wanting to toss a fluke all year. 'Cause of you, I'm rigging one for this afternoon's fishing trip.

 

FWIW, I know the gif looks like a Muppet, but it's not. That's actually me celebrating your catch.

 

Was your brother with you?

 

That's sure a pretty pond. 

Got skunked for the first time in a long time this morning. The first hour was dark and overcast with lots of lightening and crazy thunder. And then the rain hit and I had to run for cover. It was a really weird and ominous atmosphere pre rain. Odd, dim light that made me feel like I was going blind.

 

I also went to the river for an hour yesterday evening and tried to catch some Smallies. But the river is blown out from all the rain, and the only action I could get was a kind of fish I am currently being bullied about. 😄

 

 

2 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

lots of lightening and crazy thunder. And then the rain hit and I had to run for cover. It was a really weird and ominous atmosphere pre rain. Odd, dim light that made me feel like I was going blind.

 

Sounds like my last fishing trip. I sat for an hour on the shore waiting for the lightning to pass. When the lightning started, the bass stopped. 

 

@gimruis better live a good life or when it's over, he'll find himself with a tacklebox full of Whopper Ploppers at a lake full of only rock bass. 

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

Just now, ol'crickety said:

 

Sounds like my last fishing trip. I sat for an hour on the shore waiting for the lightning to pass. When the lightning started, the bass stopped. 

I was just reading through that fishing report. At least I didn't have mile and a half paddle to get back home. 

1 minute ago, gimruis said:

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

 

We covered this last year: rock BASS are BASS. And therefore I posted it in the BASS thread. 😆

4 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

I was just reading through that fishing report. At least I didn't have mile and a half paddle to get back home. 

 

I kid you not: I had a mile of paddling north and the wind and rain were in my face. Then I had half of mile of paddling west and the wind and rain shifted to still be in my face. 

 

5 minutes ago, gimruis said:

So not only did you only catch a loser, but you also posted it in the wrong thread.  Paging Roadwarrior...

 

 

I saw a bass. ICD caught a bass. He scored!

 

35 minutes ago, IcatchDinks said:

We covered this last year: rock BASS are BASS.

 

While true, they are losers.  They're like that distant cousin who can't hold down a job that you only see twice a year, but wish you didn't see at all.

 

Every family's got one.  And the rock bass is that one in the bass family.

Will hopefully be fishing Lake Meredith sometime in the next few days, one of the very few water bodies in Texas with a sustained Walleye population. Hopefully the work days are short enough to make it happen. The banks of that lake are basically cliffs so I will likely be relegated to the marina and boat ramps. Still, there are nice fish that hang out on those areas at most Texas reservoirs. 

 

It's been tough fishing for a while now. I miss the summer night bite at roberts. Sunday I fished Texoma and also a lake in central Texas and caught a total of three stripers. I blame the barometer - while it was sitting right around 30 in/hg, there was little more than 0.2in of change in a three day span. Most of the time in those conditions I find that it's almost exclusively a nighttime bite. It's just how it is right now, I expect to be back to fishing normally in about 6 weeks but in the meantime I'm just not gonna be fishing much. Probably a good time to work on flipping a jig with more accuracy in the yard or something. For now I live vicariously through y'all 

40 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

FWIW, I know the gif looks like a Muppet, but it's not. That's actually me celebrating your catch.

🤣

41 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

Was your brother with you?

Solo mission. Had an apocalyptic nightmare that woke me up wide eyed with heart racing at 4:30am. Dante's Inferno meets Jacob's Ladder( Jacob's Ladder (1990) - IMDb). Chimeras and other 'thingz". Yeesh. No more melatonin for me! Figured I'd take advantage of the adrenaline rush and buzzed up for some swings

Just now, PhishLI said:

Had an apocalyptic nightmare

 

No lie. I have them too. Weird, huh?

Hey… how to y’all post so many photos?  I get capped at 1mb and have to shrink my photos to be pretty grainy. 🤷🏼‍♂️