Excellent video, including numerous ways to upright your beast of a fishing machine! Never thought that the touring boat methods of self rescue with a paddle float could be used for SOTs (or was necessary). Good to know. Perimeter deck lines are a good idea too, but be careful of entanglement. You can easily lose a finger in rough water if they’re too tight or loose and you’re not careful. You’ll have to find a place on your boat behind the seat where you can secure a paddle to use as an outrigger with the paddle float. That will probably take some modification and PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!!

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Decided to finally take the opportunity to have an entire lake all to ourselves today, even though it's only at 30% capacity.  Got onto the water at 11:30 and ended up finding them at the point opposite of the South put in, at 1:30pm.  Lots of fish along the North side of the point.  3 hookups (1 landed, 1 unbuttoned, 1 stupid) within 30 minutes on minnows, but the bite was dead by 2pm.  We didn't see a boil all day.  Very easy launch, with only a slight amount of mud at the water line. 

Thank you all for the awesome intel about the put in, rigging, where to get those huge feisty $1.25 minnows!!  My Australian buddy Andrew used to only fly fish.  Now he's addicted to LMB @ Clearlake and having huge expenditures on new gear.  Mendo is on the way! Next time we'll bring our fly rods.  This was our very first time fishing Mendo.  Now is the time. 

Pondsurf, a newbie, and I decided to fish Sonoma Creek after a buddy said he heard boats were getting multiple hookups there on ghost shrimp.  Launched under the highway 37 bridge on the North side and paddled out past the mouth.  My fishfinder is down and Pondsurf forgot to charge his batteries so we were fishing blind, but it was easy to find the channel with our paddles.  Pondsurf had a fish on within 5 minutes but it was a shaker at 40 inches.  Nothing happened for another 3 hours except the newbie missing  a probable take.  He was only 30 feet away because of a slipping anchor, and right at the best part of the tide which was making less noise streaming past the hull of our kayaks (sign that the tide is slowing and toward the bottom), was sunny, very quiet, both of us enjoying a nice cigar, last 2 ghost shrimp on the line- I said to him how great it would be to hook up right then.  Within 10 minutes my rod was going off and I was on a 100 yard sleigh ride!  Barely legal 46 incher and 20 lbs.  I now know that a minimum fish is about 20 lbs and a maximum legal fish is about 40 (see 2nd px, 55 7/8" caught on a boat 2 weeks ago 1 mile off China camp).  40 lbs of sturgeon yielded 17 lbs of fillet which all went to the smoker.  Ended up with 10 lbs of smoked sturgeon.  Bud's meats in Penngrove does an excellent job.  His pepper and garlic marinade is fabulous!  Goes really well with a chardonnay, havarti cheese, and crackers!!  Fly tying guys are going to love it tomorrow night.