Rancho Seco 7/18/14

I will be taking my son out in the kayak today, it is more of a fun paddle with a little fishing when possible.  The Rancho Seco gates open when the first employ shows up about  6:30 am on the weekdays. However it is a firm 7:00 am on the weekends. My fishing plan is to throw spybait, wake bait and jigs today. Got three bits all day, I was able to get two bass, the first two were on the spybait, and the last one snapped the line also on a spybait. But the best part of the day was the that I was able to do it with my son.

 This was his 2nd and 3rd bass we have caught together, on the kayak.

I feel that if I had a more corporative son we could have boated much more fish. He get very fussy after releasing the fish back into the water.  Next time will try to a few more fish in the boat.

Second Stop for the Delta Kayak Bass Series

The second stop on the Delta Kayak Bass Series is out of Tiki Lagun. I can not recall ever fishing this area before and did zero pre-fishing in the area leading up to this event. I hope this lack of knowledge will help me because I will have to rely on my instincts on were to go and what to throw.

I just got home from the second event, wow got the bites unfortunately they were dinks. The full moon last night did not help fishing. I personally had to cover lots for water, I paddle about 4 miles total today, I started with bladed jig, but no takers so switched over to the spybait. I was casting and trolling the spybait, around the submerged weeds and that started getting bites, I had 9 bass today, and three stripers the best stripers was about 3 lbs but they do not count for our tournament. I switched back to the bladed jig and got two short bits on the trailer but no hookups. I the big bass of the tournament was 8 lbs lots of 15" and a few 23".

Jackll Iprop in bluegill, on 6lb fluorocarbon 15' leader connected to 50lb braid on Powell extra fast spinning rod

I will be trying work on a YouTube video on how I am using a spybait in my kayak.

Clear Lake

My brother and I went for a two day trip to Clear Lake, CA. for the Fourth of July weekend. We expected the boat traffic but was still hoping to get some good bites. But it became a grind, we fished all day Saturday, to only landed 4 fish but the best was 6 lbs, On Sunday we fished a 1/2 day and were able to get 5 fish.  We were able to pattern our bites from the day before so we were able to get the five fish in the boat by the time that we had our first one in the boat from the day before. We had only one frog fish, and the rest came on finesse worms.

Rancho Seco 7/2/14

Fished out of the Jackson Kayak Bigrig today. I was on the water by 6:30am and my second cast I was able to land my only bass of the day.

I was using a spybait on light spinning tackle. I was trolling the lake trying to move along the outside of the outer weed beds. 8-20 feet of water. While trolling I was able to catch three of the largest crappie I have ever caught along with two sun fish.

I was trying to get one more bass in the boat but I just could not get them going. I had many followers going after the spybait but just no takers. Had a good day on the water may try a different color or size next time to see if that my get the bass on the hook. Until then good luck and tight lines.

 

Delta Kayak Bass Series

June 15, 2014 my first kayak fishing tournament
I entered myself into a Delta Kayak Bass Series three fishing event over three months on the California Delta. Sunday father day was the first event out of Tower Park Marina, I was on the fish by throwing a Chatter bait along the rip-rap. I was only able to land one fish, I has a difficult time getting my other bites to stay on the line for more than a few seconds.

My one fish CPR at 13.5"

P.S. I was able to determine that my hook was not sharp causing me to lose so many fish. I now have added a file to the boat.

Yakattack Blackpak

I had picked up my new yakattak Blackpak from Headwaters kayak shop last Friday. As Dan the owner was finishing putting it together he was about to slap on a decal when I stopped him and said "that will have to wait until I camouflage it". Well after a week of work this is almost the finished with it. I still may add some brown to it.

Bass Fishing Pardee

My Brother and I went to Pardee today 5/18/14 knowing that it would be blow 15-20 on the Delta.  We got on the water just after 6:30, as we idled though the 5 mph, we prepted our rods, with new drop shot leatders and hooks. We pulled up river and fishes a creek bed my brother got a nice 4lbs and one dink.

As we keep moving down the bank we got one more keeper. Then ran back to the creek bed and got another dink. We started working the bank in the other direction and I got my first fish a nice small mouth bass.

We ran out to the main body and fished a wind blown bank and got two more keepers. Went over to the damn and I got one srike on my spy bait and multiple follows. We had to work all day for those five keepers, but we did it. The five went 13 lbs.

I don't know why but my brother did not take a picture with me holding my small mouth but that's just the way it goes some times. But we did not get sun burned, hats, hoods, duffs, long sleeves & sun screen.