pOtato- potAto!

Ugh if I didn’t have a wedding to attend that weekend I’d be there!

Hoping to attend one of these meetups this year.

We are in the planning stages of a camping/fishing get together at Sly Creek. Tentatively the weekend of June 22nd.
Kevin.

Could anyone with a motor chime in on how they feel about it?  Would this encourage you to join AOTY and participate? 

We also now have the Hybrid of electric assisted peddles, and some day we will probably all fish off of HoverYaks 

I would join AOTY if allowed. I use a trolling motor. My kayak does not have peddles. I joined AOTY two years ago knowing that only the fish caught when paddling would count. I gave up on this idea very quickly. I soon realized that trying to troll and paddle at the same time was very difficult for three reasons.
1. When I got a hook up, it took time to set the paddle down and grab the rod. This resulted in a lot of lost fish.

2. I like my rods out in front of me when trolling. Hard to detect a strike when they are behind you. This forced me to use longer rods in order to get the lines out far enough to be able to paddle. This resulted in making it harder to land a fish due to the length of the rods.

3. I had issues when turning too sharp when paddling, the inside line would come close to the kayak and make it almost imposable to paddle with out hitting it.

I have none of these issues when using the trolling motor.
As it stands right now, I'm on the outside, jealously looking in to those that have peddle drive.

As most do, I started off paddling on an inexpensive kayak. When I was ready to upgrade, I tried the peddle types. Tried both push/pull and bicycle styles. Unfortunately, due to years of motocross racing, my knees just couldn't take it after a few hours. This left me with three options. 1. Just keep paddling 2. Buy a boat 3. Use a trolling motor. I chose the later for several reasons. No space to keep a boat and with a trolling motor, I can use it or chose to paddle. This has allowed me to expand my time on the water and really upped my fishing experience.  I agree with the necessity of knowing your limitation. If you don't know your limitations then you really shouldn't be in big or moving water.

A few of us are hitting Amador this Sunday. Launch about 9:00. Starting off trolling but may end up banking it if we find them stacked up in a cove. Ch.69
Kevin

I've always been disappointed when I went.  Although if I did, i'd go for the free fly fishing instructions, that seemed cool.  Used to always be able to get a coupon for parking i'd see if that is still available.

Disappointed? The only thing that disappoints me is that I don't have a big enough bank account to get the 22' North River that's on my bucket list!!!
Kevin

That's cool. I've saw them on occasion last year in the Guadalupe when going to a Sharks game. None this year though.