Bendo at Lake Mendo but had to work for them!

Ken and I drove up around 4:30am Saturday and arrived around 7:30 at Lake Mendo.  Conditions were awesome, warm weather and the Lake was flat with no wind.  Stayed this way until around 1:00pm.  Sean, Leah and their two daughters, Paige and Elsie showed up around 1:00pm and we paddled out to try and find the fish.  Sean loaded both his daughters in the X Factor,  and Leah paddled a smaller Cobra.  We tried trolling for about an hour, but no luck.  Elsie fell asleep in sean's lap so he had to go, but we had a great time with the white family.  I stayed out until about 4:00 pm and that was it for me.  It was way to windy and with a slight cold, it was time to come in.  Ken came in about 2 hours later and caught a 5 lb Striper.

After setting camp, and having hotdogs and chili for dinner, it was lights out around 9:30pm.  Woke up around 7:15am had breakfast and we headed back to the north end.  Conditions were overcast and windy not like saturday.  We trolled across the lake and headed into crappie cove.  We did one drift in and then started to paddle back out.  I was marking fish in about 40 to 50 ft. of water when all of a sudden my reel starts screaming out line.  This was on my light action setup.  Fought the fish for a good 15 minutes and netted a stocky male striper.  Ken hooked a smaller one after but the winds were to strong for us to continue fishing. Talked with Lee and his wife on the tandem when we were paddling in.   Off the water by 12:30.

Nice beer!     I mean ... fish!  

-Allen

My fish was atleast 6 lbs and the other one was 18  lbs 1/2 inches.  The Six was done by trolling.  All the rest have been drifting.

Alot of males...very few females....  

Ken kickfish

18 pounds is a big fish. What were you using?

Well John, when I saw you and Ken all bundled up Iwas concerned. We headed for the cove you pointed out, and then the wind came hard; not to mention that we hadn't been on the tandom together for a long time. So getting slapped aroud a bit  we decided to tuck in around that island and headed for the dam, then we called it a day(too cold). No bites. At least we had some abs for dinner. It was wild how quick the wind whipped up the water. Congrates to you and Ken for your well earned fish.  Lee

I think Ken means 18.5 inches, not 18 lbs, at least that is what he told me on the phone.

Sorry I couldn't stay longer.  Between my mom in town and Elsie in my lap it was busy this weekend.  It was blowing hard at the lake again today.  I will let you guys know when things get more productive.  Thanks for letting my try your boats.