I made another Suicide Trip to SoCal for the Spinny Lobster Opener. This was also my maiden voyage on my “new to me” 2015 AI and wow, I love the trampoline. Catching the keeper lobster was not easy. Pulled all five of the pots every 20 mins for 5.5 hours. That’s over 80 pulls. My arms and shoulders were tired after 40 pulls. My goal was to get at least 4 keepers and went on overtime to bring home 5 keepers.

I know bass fishing is not too popular in this forum but I just wanted to share my recent kayak bass tourney. It was open water tourney so most people went up to the Clear Lake, the land of the big ditch pickles, but My buddy and I decided to go to Salt Spring Valley Reservoir for peace and quiet. We pretty much had to whole lake to ourselves and no power boats running around.

I got to try the brand new kayak Slayer Propel Max 12.5 by Native Watercraft. Check out the Walkthrough and Demo video below.

A few NCKA brothers and I had a great time at From The Depth (Folsom Lake) event last Saturday. These guys are low-key, low-pressure and super friendly. If you are in Sacramento area and looking for a good group of people, I recommend it.

I took the new 2020 Hobie Passport 12.0 for a spin. Not a bad pedal kayak for 1599.

A couple of nice upgrades they made on Moken 12.5. Comfortable lawn chair style seat and sonar pod.

This might be a little helpful for those who are looking into Old Town Topwater 120 PDL.

Went out to Oyster Point with a few NCKA peeps (Shaun, Michael, Nick, Nancy and Cody) and 1 non-NCKA friend (Ensei) on 3/30. I planned on going to Berry FnC but the weather and tide turned my focus to OP. We ended up with 5 keepers and many more shakers. I was lucky with the most action followed by Shaun but Nick got the biggest butt measuring 28 inches. Shaun landed the first keeper BUTT and lost a 25 plus incher that jumped out of his net. Shaun told me how the Butt jumped out about a dozen times throughout the day  I'll let the video tell my story.