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Messages - Trouter925

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Re: DIY stripping Mat
« on: June 15, 2023, 03:13:49 PM »
That's kind of slick.  I'm glad it works for you.  I have a native and stand up most of the time when I'm fly casting.  So many things to tangle on....  I use a plastic waste basket that helps a bit.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / 11/5 SanJoaquin
« on: November 05, 2022, 03:40:08 PM »
Went down river from Eddo’s. Drifted outgoing morning tide. Kind of day when you start making deals in your head “…if I could just catch one..” and that’s what I got.  One bite, one fish about 15” maybe. A couple boats fishing the north side of the river. Didn’t see much going on. The wind was just manageable for casting.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / 10/30 San Joaquin
« on: October 30, 2022, 09:00:34 PM »
Fished out of Korth's this morning.  Went upstream on the San Joaquin.  A pretty slow day for me.  I think I caught 3 fish.  All undersized, the biggest was maybe 14".  Caught 2 on topwater and 1 on streamer.  A beautiful morning- all hazy and foggy.  The hunters were going off on Venice Island.  I fished upstream past potato slough on the incoming tide.  Back to the truck around 11 am.  Not a lot of traffic on the water.  Coming over Antioch bridge, I didn't see many boats on the water.  Not many boats on water in Rio Vista either.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Re: Kayak drives
« on: February 17, 2022, 12:23:51 PM »
My $0.02.  I have Native Titan.  I have not taken beyond the delta, but I stand up in it all the time to fly cast.  I find it super stable.  I can't imagine sitting and stripping streamers.  One pain is if if I'm in current, I am constantly going between sitting and standing to adjust kayak position.  Sometimes I drop anchor to hold position to work a section of bank then pull up and drift a bit to get to next section...  I'm not sure a typical kayak drive would handle this well.  A trolling motor with spot lock would be great but $$$.  (If I had to do again, I would have just bought a small aluminum with outboard and put on trolling motor.  by the time you trick out your kayak, you'll be thousand($) into it.  For my Native, I need a launch ramp anyway...)

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Saturday Delta
« on: January 31, 2022, 09:51:22 AM »
Couple of shakers out on the San Joaquin on Saturday.  Looking for moving water on the incoming tide.  Pretty high tide as I could see over the levees. 

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I have a Native Titan. I’m always dealing with fly line tangles around the various attachments and pedal drive.  When you add in tide and wind, it can be very frustrating. Most of the time when I’m casting, I’m standing. I don’t think I’d like to sit in kayak and cast, but advantage is keeping yourself in position via pedal drive.I think fly fishing from kayak with traditional paddle in current would be too much for me to handle. Personally, I would use the kayak to get from place to place on The river rather than to fly fish from.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Steamboat Slough: 8/29/2021
« on: August 29, 2021, 01:04:17 PM »
Went out of Hogback and went upstream to the ferry.  Caught a few stripping streamers today.  Had a few teases on the deer hair bass bug, but no takers.  It's been a while since I caught a striper.  Got a keeper today ~21".

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For Sale / kayak cart - $20
« on: July 19, 2021, 04:43:41 PM »
Used a couple times.  $20. 
I'm in Martinez.  come pick it up.  First come, first served.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Re: Delta: White Slough
« on: July 19, 2021, 10:34:42 AM »
what kina cam u slanging for dem pix?  crazy good rez.  Nice bass n thx 4 that report

just plain ole camera phone.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Delta: White Slough
« on: July 17, 2021, 04:46:39 PM »
Launched out of King Island around 5:30 this morning and made my way out White Slough to the San Joaquin.  Top water on deer hair bass bug was good until about 0700.  (my second attempt at tying a bass bug.  Not the best, but the fish didn't seem to care.  :smt001) Man the top water fly rod thing is something else.  I missed a lot of fish- have to stop that Texas rigged worm hookset on the fly rod....Switched over to sink tip and streamer after that.  I didn't catch anything big but caught enough that I lost count - all largemouth.  Hooked one small striper.  A couple small boats trolling in white slough right said they caught a couple stripers.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / delta: windy weekend
« on: June 28, 2021, 11:20:03 AM »
Exploring the delta a little more this weekend.

Saturday fished the San Joaquin and launched out of Dos Reis Park in Lathrop.  I fished a couple hours down river and didn't get one bite.  Packed up and launched out of the city launch in Rio Vista and peddled up past the bridge.   Got a couple small largemouth. 
Sunday launched out of Viera's ($20....!).  Peddled up the Sac past the ferry.  Pretty tiring peddling against current and tide.  Mental note not to do that again.  Water was pretty muddy in both locations.

No fish of size and no stripers.  A pretty frustrating weekend of wind and current.

Anyone fly fish for stripers inside the bay and care to give a tip on where to start? - I've only been fishing the freshwater and am wondering if the bay proper would be better during summer with cooler water out there.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Delta stripers
« on: June 02, 2021, 11:11:25 AM »
Saturday and Monday out on the San Joaquin again.  Lots of small stripers - nothing keeper sized - but enough of them to make it interesting.  The breeze wasn't the hurricane of the last two months so I fished the fly both days.  Surprisingly, the morning boat traffic wasn't too bad, but late morning was the time to get off water with the personal watercraft buzzing around like f'ing yellowjackets... 

Got to start getting saltwater game together and start exploring further west and see about some bigger fish.

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Re: Getting started
« on: May 20, 2021, 08:18:29 AM »
I would recommend a few in person casting lessons.  I say this mostly because it is easy to pick up bad casting technique and someone else watching you makes it way easier to correct.  It's hard to unlearn bad technique once you get comfortable with it.  Maybe you have a local fly club in your area? 

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Re: Sunday Stripers - San Joaquin 4/18/2021
« on: April 25, 2021, 05:21:12 PM »
Pirate's Lair - $10. 

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Kayak Fly Fishing / Sunday Stripers - San Joaquin 4/18/2021
« on: April 19, 2021, 11:10:59 AM »
Fished out on the San Joaquin on Sunday.  Caught 7 stripers in about 4 hours in the morning.  All were undersized with exception of maybe one.  They were particularly feisty and I thought all were larger fish until I saw them.  A couple of larger followers when fish were on.  One close encounter with a sea lion while fish was on.  Swooped fish into kayak and let if flop about until I thought coast was clear.  All fish caught on the riprap where drop off to deep water was quick.  I didn't catch any fish in the shallows.  The fish didn't care for a steady retrieve.  All came on pause between strips on erratic retrieve. 

Out going tide and the current wasn't very strong current.  Water temp was about 63F.  Nice morning out.  A little breeze but not enough to mess with casting, just enough to cool off.

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