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Kayak Fishing Zone => Kayak Fly Fishing => Topic started by: Trouter925 on January 02, 2021, 09:32:15 AM

Title: Happy New Year: San Joaquin - 1/1/2021
Post by: Trouter925 on January 02, 2021, 09:32:15 AM

Happy New Year!  I am glad to see 2020 go...  I fished fairly hard yesterday.  I got 2 small stripers.  I was getting worried about starting off the new year with a blank.  Hopefully good fishing omens for 2021.  Water temp was about 47.5.  Small outgoing tide until 1-ish.  Caught both within 30 min of each other on riprap of main San Joaquin as the tide started to change.  The second had a friend along side.  I really need to try double fly.

A little rain going on today.  Time to break out the spey gear and get my head into steelhead mode.

Title: Re: Happy New Year: San Joaquin - 1/1/2021
Post by: Sin Coast on January 02, 2021, 09:37:45 AM

Hellyeah, happy new year!
I may have the break out my flyrod too...after getting outfished by flies on the San Lorenzo & Salinas rivers last week.

Title: Re: Happy New Year: San Joaquin - 1/1/2021
Post by: Pushjerk on January 08, 2021, 11:43:54 AM

Love your reports from the San Joaquin. I’m down in Monterey so some similar water we have might be the Salinas River.

Going for Striper in the Surf I use an intermediate running line with full sink 6 head to get down in The strike zone.

What kind of line are you using in the deltas?  Floating/intermediate/sink?

Ever fish top water with some poppers ?

Thanks and keep the reports coming.

Title: Re: Happy New Year: San Joaquin - 1/1/2021
Post by: Trouter925 on January 21, 2021, 10:08:47 AM

I have been using 8 wt rod with scientific anglers titan sonar intermediate/type3/type5 sinking and stripping streamers.  I've been fishing a fly pattern called "the chosen one" by Gunnar Brammer.  I tie up a leader of 40/30/20 lb fluoro about 7-8 ft long, most of length coming from 40lb. 

When the water warms up, I will try a floating line and some poppers, sliders, etc.  I mostly fish for largemouth out in the delta, but I have to tell you, stripers are way more fun to catch. I plan to go further up the river (Isleton, Walnut Grove, Clarksburg) this summer and fish smallmouth.  LMB are like toads.  I'd rather fish stripers.  My ranking would be (1) stripers, (2) pike minnow (3) smallies (4) largemouth...haha.

I am adverse to the salt for some reason.  that may change this summer as I think I need to broaden my horizons and chase some fish in the surf.

Title: Re: Happy New Year: San Joaquin - 1/1/2021
Post by: surf12foot on January 21, 2021, 04:02:59 PM

Keep the pictures and reports coming. The weather up here on the Oregon coast is a guessing game right now.