3rd Stop for Delta Kayak Bass series

This was the 3rd and final stop for Delta Kayak Bass Series out of Tower Park Marina. Takeoff was at 6:30 and what a great day for kayak bass fishing. With Nick the informative fisherman and his camera man on site I did not hesitate to hook up with two dinks right off the bat. I continue drifting with the current throwing up current with my Spiderbait and I caught a number of dinks one bluegill. As I near the end of the bank I switched over to a chatter bait and caught my first keeper of the day just barely going to 13 inches.

 I paddled across the way and fish the small island to catching five dinks on the spy bait and my Shellcracker G2. I made my way back up the canal towards the highway twelve side of Tower Park. Along the way I caught a second bluegill and three more dinks, as I entered the Terminous I switched to a black with red flake Zoom worm on the texas rig, I caught my second keeper going 13 1/2 inches and two other dinks.

As I was running out of time before the awayin I started fishing the shady side of Docks with both the spybait and Texas rig, I caught a striper on the Spiderbait and two fish on the Texas rig. With less than 10 minutes left in the tournament I pitched into a dock and got a quick nibble I set the hook but only came back with half of the worm, I quickly put a new worm back on  and Pitch back into the same spot, with a quick tick tick tick on the line I set the hook and it immediately ran under the dock. I thought to myself finally I caught that third keeper and he was going to be a good one, but it wasn't meant to be it wrap me around one of the pilings and popped off the line. So I just CPR my two fish for 26.5" and a series total of 40". But with my poor showing I will still be fishing next year in the DKBS.

  

 

Father & Son Overboard

Jack and I took the kayak out for a little evening fishing last Thursday, 8/14/14, all looked good and fine got the boat in the water and started fishing. I hooked in to a nice 13.5" bluegill on a spybait (what can I say other than it works).

 As I'm trying to land the fish with a lot of treble hooks exposed I felt my seat slide out from under me. Splash  went me and my son over the starboard side of the boat. As I came up my son was already swimming towards me, I was not worried or panicked while I was submerged but definitely relived he was ok. Now the work and planning had to start I still had the my son, me, rod  and fish in the water and I needed to get my son rod and me back in the boat. So I opened the bail on the reel, kicked off my flip flops and grabed my son I pulled him to the boat and got him in. I put the rod in the rod holder, grabed my shoes, and look to see if any thing else was in the water, thankfully every thing was lashed or stayed in the boat. I did not want to try to climb in myself thinking my son would just fall back in. So got along side and started pulling it to shore got back in and reeled up the bluegill yep still on the line. We paddled back to launch ramp took some pictures and headed home.  As I straped the boat in I relized that the seat strap was losse so made sure to fix it for the next outing. Glad everything turned out for the best but please always wear you PFD's when boating things can happen so fast.

Delta 8-9-14

My brother and I went out looking to find some big fish on California Delta. With a big high to low tide in the morning hours. I had a Black Dog Bait Co. ShellCracker G2, red punching rig, bladed swim jig, and Jackall I Prop tied on. My Brother had a River2Sea Whopper Plopper, red punching rig, Texas rig zoom worm, and a bladed swim jig. We had lots of fish 40-50 fish but only 12 keepers with none over 1.5 lbs. I had two nice fish come off at the boat. The strippers are starting to run, I had 7 on my Iprop, and one on the Shellcracker. We did not take any pictures because there were no big ones.

Rancho Seco 8/3/14

Well made a snap decision to take my son out kayak fishing for pinfish today.  This is something I have never done before, I tend to only bass fish. But as I get more into kayak fishing I realize that it is such a multispecies platform. I rigged up a bobber and live red worms and we had a blast we were able to get catch 5 with ease, and he was so happy we kept them in a clear gallon container until we were done fishing then we put them back.

The lake was busy with two triathlon going on, a kids started at 7am and the adults started at 8am so most of the lake was being used for the swimming portions of the triathlon.

Hi's tackle box

My wife, son and I went on vacation the last few days, knowing I was going to be in San Mateo, I knew I had to make a stop at Hi's Tackle Box in South San Francisco.  My Parents and brother, have been multiple times, and have told me how great this tackle store is. My son was sleeping in the car when we got there so my wife waited in the car for him to wake up. I was in the back of the store when they came in and I heard my son say "WOW" so even my 18 month old was impressed. The owner was behind the counter greeted me as I walked, and walked me around the store helping me with some of the items I was looking for. I was talking to him about what I was trying to do with and Alabama rig, that I can use on my kayak. He got me all set up and gave me some color options. I picked up some Spybait and some soft plastic baits. He even made a phone call to River2Sea to find out about a new bait and when it would be released.  I was impressed with the selection available in the store, from rods to hooks they had just about everything you need for freshwater and saltwater.

Rancho Seco 7/22/14

I went out to Rancho Seco, again today with my son. I was hoping for a good bite, with the overcast but I just could not get them going, until I went to a finesse worm. I got a bite on the first cast after switching up to the worm. I was able to make two more cast and we were able to get our first bass in the boat. My son get so exited when we catch a fish, but so frustrated when we have to let them go. With that said we, released the bass and then paddled to the dock and loaded up the kayak because he was done with fishing.

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.