Super User Darth-Baiter Posted November 6, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 6, 2022 we pushed our in kayak into fog. cold. low 40's air temps? maybe. I have yet to buy navigation lights for my kayak so we stayed in the channel until the sun came up more. but the fog. the lights would have been a good call. (I'm gonna order the Kayak Guardian Angel version. $ick lights). water temps was either 67 deg or 62 deg depending on which fish finder you believed. mine or my friends. my goodness. the bait balls were huge and abundant. the bass didn't love our presentations. cranks, jerks, lipless. my elbow hurts from casting so often. I had a couple of baby hits on a worm, but it was probably a bluegill or something. we saw what we imagined where huge schools of crappie. we could see a few blow up on top, and they looked like crappie. my jerk bait and cranks would come back with tiny silver fish, (silverside minnows) skewered to the hooks. (by definition it might not be a skunk!) either way, it was a skunk. the rain came in at noon and ran us off. we had rain gear, but the water would find a way down our necks. oh well. I'll keep at it. since we dont freeze here in CA. I'll keep at it. we need the rain to deepen our lakes. I'll take a couch riding wet winter any day, all day. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted November 6, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 6, 2022 I like trip reports like this, the ones where we were befuddled, but remain tenacious and also recognize that being on the water, even if the wind is howling and the skies are gray, beats watching the plastic, preening Kardashains every dang day times infinity. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User Darth-Baiter Posted November 6, 2022 Author Super User Share Posted November 6, 2022 oh, coming home. if you get into the right hand lane, and peer over the grape vines towards the east sometimes you see it. the white shiny roof top of a Mexican food truck that services the winery workers. I SAW it on the ride home. I checked my coin jar and found $13 wadded up under a Bic Lighter. GAME ON. I peel off the highway and head towards the dirt road and ordered up a burrito. I dont even know the name, but everyone that eats there has rubber boots on, and a knife on their side for trimming vines. it is a nice treat for those Clearlake Skunk days. I dont eat on the water so I am usually starving. the guys there had to help me back my truck out since I had my kayak jutting out the back. it was embarrassing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User ol'crickety Posted November 6, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 6, 2022 Okay, I'm now your fangirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator roadwarrior Posted November 6, 2022 Global Moderator Share Posted November 6, 2022 Flatworm, Black Shiner on a dropshot rig. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Berkley_Powerbait_Maxscent_Flat_Worm/descpage-CLF.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted November 7, 2022 Global Moderator Share Posted November 7, 2022 I'm looking at winter arriving at the end of this week. Going to be lows in the teens and highs in the 30s whenever I get out this weekend. It could always be worse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Raider Bob Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 9:08 AM, ol'crickety said: I like trip reports like this, the ones where we were befuddled, but remain tenacious and also recognize that being on the water, even if the wind is howling and the skies are gray, beats watching the plastic, preening Kardashains every dang day times infinity. I'm so fortunate in this regard, if the weather is too ugly to fish, I still can enjoy being outdoors, pulling down hay for the goats, watching the two orphan fawns that live behind the barn, or sitting on the covered dock. No Television for me anymore.....life's too short! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User PhishLI Posted November 7, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said: I'm looking at winter arriving at the end of this week. Going to be lows in the teens and highs in the 30s whenever I get out this weekend 78* today! It's so nice out right now I could fish nekid with zero loss of dignity. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User AlabamaSpothunter Posted November 7, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 7, 2022 13 minutes ago, Blue Raider Bob said: I'm so fortunate in this regard, if the weather is too ugly to fish, I still can enjoy being outdoors, pulling down hay for the goats, watching the two orphan fawns that live behind the barn, or sitting on the covered dock. No Television for me anymore.....life's too short! 2020 was the year that blew my fuse, this is the right way to live life imho. 5 minutes ago, PhishLI said: 78* today! It's so nice out right now I could fish nekid with zero loss of dignity. 85 degree high here....but I don't fish nekid as I don't want a hook in a particular place 🤣 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Global Moderator TnRiver46 Posted November 7, 2022 Global Moderator Share Posted November 7, 2022 40° can’t get here soon enough, it’s hot. Been sweating non stop since 7:15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super User DitchPanda Posted November 8, 2022 Super User Share Posted November 8, 2022 9 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said: I'm looking at winter arriving at the end of this week. Going to be lows in the teens and highs in the 30s whenever I get out this weekend. It could always be worse. Saturday here is high of 26 low of 7 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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