Dell Valle 12/2/07

Fishing Del Valle this Sunday. I'll be launching around 7am. Would love some company.

FF

Wish I could join you but I have a soccer game at 9:00AM in Palo Alto.  Knock 'em dead. 

Michael

Wish I could join you but I have a soccer game at 9:00AM in Palo Alto.  Knock 'em dead. 

Michael

Wow, me too on both counts: do you play in PAASL?

Wow, me too on both counts: do you play in PAASL?

I play in the PSL, not sure if it is the same thing.  Here is the website:
http://peninsulasoccerleague.org/

Michael

Wow, me too on both counts: do you play in PAASL?

I play in the PSL, not sure if it is the same thing.  Here is the website:
http://peninsulasoccerleague.org/

Michael

Apparently  not, altho' it seems we play on the same fields: http://paasl.org

Apologies for the hijack FF.

Apologies for the hijack FF.

Ditto!  And back to your regularly scheduled program.   

Michael

Apologies for the hijack FF.

Ditto!  And back to your regularly scheduled program.   

Michael

  You guys are killin me.

It looks like khmunger will be joining me. We'll be caravaning from the SC area.

FF

I'm wimping out. Forecast calls for 16mph winds. Don't think I want to make the drive for crappy windy conditions. Best of luck to anybody braving the weather.

FF

It's the last day I will have off for fishing for a while, so I think I will brave the windy conditions.  Plus I have some left over minnows.  Chalk it up to me being a newbie and not knowing what I am getting into.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Courtney

It's the last day I will have off for fishing for a while, so I think I will brave the windy conditions.  Plus I have some left over minnows.  Chalk it up to me being a newbie and not knowing what I am getting into.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Let us know how many minnows you had alive when you reached DV - if any, and how you kept them alive.

Michael

I won't bore you with the details, but I got called into work this morning just as I was leaving for Del Valle--very disappointing.

I had 15 jumbo minnows (I would actually call them shiners if I were back in Georgia) left over when I left Quarry Lakes yesterday.  While I was fishing I frequently replaced the water in my minnow bucket with lake water.  When I left the lake, I transferred the shiners into a 48-quart cooler and filled it to the brim with lake water.  This morning when I got up, all 15 shiners were still alive and healthy.  None were gasping at the surface of the water or floating upside down.  Before having to go into work, I scooped a gallon of water out of the cooler and poured it back in from several feet above the surface to facilitate oxygenation.  I repeated this a half dozen times and then went to work.  When I got home this evening at 1800, all 15 were still alive and happy (unlike myself) with no surface gasping.  I think the key is keeping the water oxygenated.

I think the key is keeping the water oxygenated.

Agreed!

Bummer on having to go into work - that blows!

Michael

The real question is where did buy them? The only place that i know ( Sportman center - castro valley) had them seem to close down!  

I picked up two dozen at Ly's per Marmite's suggestion.  They were $11.95/dozen or something close to that.  Buying two dozen turned out to be a little presumptuous and optimistic!!

Ly's Sporting Goods
1051 E. Capitol Expressway
San Jose, CA
(408) 629-9644