Black butte bout report

 

I had fun, I think. My truck broke a rear axel bearing on the way there. Limped it in and had friend bring my trailer to tow home Sat. Caught a minor case of the bottle flu. My throat swelled up for some reason and I could not swallow on Sat. I fished for two hours for one bite. So, there was my tourney experience. Woo Hoo.

Rob, I'm beginning to suffer the same throat issue.

It was a great weekend. Ya the windy blew but didn't kill the spirit on Friday night. I was able to meet and have a good time with some new NCKA brother and get YUM YUM out on her first real fishing adventure. The fishing was tough but after scrubbin YUM YUM down I was able to get the smell off with a 12" smallie for the tourney. Not enough to place top three but I was happy to get something 

Went out a little later in the afternoon with Novofish to FAC water. It was night and day from my experience earlier that morning. I was able to scratch out another smallie 14" so a little bigger.

Stayed another night and Hojoman, rockfish, & me hung by the sweet fire pit am had a couple of LBB Big Boys and Oreos. It was good just hanging getting to know Jim & Howard.

All I'm all a great weekend.

Will post some pics later if I don't head out to the feather for some striper action.

Not much more to add, very tough day on the water with the wind but a good time.  I headed to my crappie spot, which was a crappy idea.  It was totally exposed and a constant battle to keep the bow into the wind to take the brunt of the wind waves.  I was graphing fish, just couldn't get the presentation made or feel the bite.  Had one brief opportunity to keep a rod in my hand and felt a tap, missed him.  Congrats to anyone who landed a fish, and for the guys on the podium. 
-beenfishin

So glad you were there to take all those great pictures Hojo. Congrats to all that caught fish.

Jedmo

A great big THANK YOU to everyone who came out and played in the wind on Saturday morning.  I was amazed to see 30 paddlers braving the wind and waves, even more suprised to see so many of them head away from the wind right away.  Those guys really had to WORK HARD to get back to the launch! 

The potluck was really good, especially with all the ribs, rice, chicken and lasagna!

A great big congratulations to thew winners:
1-Dan Cantrell (504pts)
2-Victor WOOLWORTH (211.4 pts)
3-Jeff Baker (130 pts)
and youngest angler - Little Perrer (aka Logan)


and a GREAT BIG THANKS to the sponsors,
Headwaters Adventure Company
Hoggy
Lowrance
Powell
Adventure Sports
AND
Hojoman for Pictures

Without them, there wouldn't be much to give away as prizes 


As previously mentioned the camping was really nice and I think that Black Butte could be an annual event, as long as the wind cooperates 

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Ain't wind a bitch?  Despite that, it still looks like you guys had a great time out there. Props to the guys who got on some fish in tough conditions!

Upset that the wind wasn't in our favor.  Friday the wind kicked up 30 plus winds not to mention 8mph plus wind on the day of the event.  Plan was to go to Grizzly flats area where the wind was blowing to but figured a little then halfway in that I didn't want to burn that much calories coming back to the launch.  Hanged out latter that day and went on glass water with Jim.  Not sure how it was possible to catch fish but congrats to the winners. 
 
With frustration overcomeing me.  I went back Sunday and lost two bass on swimbait in the shallows.  Lost one crappie and caught another one.   

Thanks for posting and the pictures but can we next time post it in the non-private section for other sponsors to see.  Thank You!

Thanks for the great time Jim. Even though the wind was an issue and I wasn't able to take him out to far from the launch, Logan was extremely excited about joining his first NCKA event. He will soon have his own kayak and will be hooked even more but for now it is just great to  spend time with him.

Thanks Jim for another great event.  This time close to home, although I think it cost me a shot at the podium.  At least I kept the WAF points up.  Let's do it again next month at Berry!

A big thank you to Jim and all the sponsors!

It was nice to be able to get out and fish. Since Arianna was born I haven't been out on the water. Luis and I left Suisun on friday night around 7:30 and headed towards Black Butte not knowing what to expect. When we arrived it was dark, cold and the wind was starting to pick up. We hung out with the crew for a while and then decided to call it a night a little after 12. Sleeping in the back of my truck I could hear the wind blowing so much, at one point I thought it was going to rip the kayaks off the truck. When I finally got to sleep my alarm went off and it was 5 AM and time to get up.

Luis and I drove down to the ramp and the wind was still blowing really hard. My plan was to stay near the shoreline and see what I could find. I was surprised to see Bio-Bill and we decided that we would try and fish together since he always seems to have good luck around me. We got onto the lake around 6:30 and the wind was already blowing us out away from the shore that I wanted to fish. At one point Bill decided to go around the point into a cove and that was the last I saw of him for an hour. I fished out in about 30 feet of water and wanted to go in more around 10-15 but the wind kept puching me out when I would stop paddling. Every once in a while I would see the rod tip move, but no action. A little before 10 I see Bret on his way in to go to his sons opening day for baseball and he told me that he caught one fish in about 5 feet of water, all I had to do was paddle over to a hill that was blocking the wind. I looked at the destination and really didn't know if I could make it, there were white caps all over the way and it might take me a good amount of time to get there and who knows how long to get back.

After thinking about it for a short amount of time, I see Bill come back from the cove he was fishing. He said he had no luck, I told him about the intel that Bret gave me and we decided to make the trek. We aimed out yaks towards the wind and hoped that we would be pushed into the spot we wanted to fish. It didnt' take that long to get there and when we arrived Jbaker said he had just caught a fish in the spot I was. The information that Bret gave me was even validated more. I dropped down the line with a secret agent and within about 2 minutes of drifiting in 10 feet out water I had my first fish on. I measured it on the trough a little under 14" and released it, the skunk was off. I paddled over to Bill to give him the news and drifted around a little more for nothing. At that time I had heard from another kayaker that a "Bass pro" had 4 fish already, I didn't even know if my one fish would count for anything. I sent down another line with another secret agent and a few minutes later I had fish number two. At that point I didn't know if I had placed but figured I would fish until 12 and then make the paddle back, just in case it took a while to get back in the wind. When I got in to check in my feet were week from using my body to help track in the wind. I walked to the scoring table and found Dan the "bass pro" in front of me with 5 fish. I then gave Jim the pics of my two fish and went to pack up my gear in hopes of maybe placeing. A little after 1, my gear was packed and I went to check out the scoreboard, with a big surprise I placed second with my two fish. It was a great feeling after having such a hard time fishing in the wind and keep my lines where I wanted them.

The potluck was awesome with some great food and it was great to be able to hang out with the crew. I am already looking forward to the next event.

Again Jim thank you for putting this all together.

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WOW!  Great report.  Despite the breezy conditions it appears everyone had a good time and some even caught some fish.  What's not to like.  Nice photos all.