20 AOTY Points from Berryesa

 Had Huge Hopes of Bagging the Monster SMB Today, Did not get on the lake till 12, late call @ work stalled me a bit...

 Marked tons of Fish piled up, This lake is about ready to explode...

 Hard to get to them to hit, dropped live minnows on their head, spooned even trolled for a land locked Kings.

 Miss one Hit @ 100' !!!!  Keep Sweating ChuckE!!!!!!

 Great weather out there, alittle wind here and there, but over all very nice, should be better tomarrow..

 Still, picked up 5 LMB's largest 17", 2 SMB largest 15 1/2" , tossing broken Rapala,

 SMB took it to the Gut, Floater.... Filet and Released.... .............. Danglin

wow, nice job, Don!
If sturgeon won't work out this weekend, I might try Berryessa this weekend too now...
Hopefully, Jim get me day off...

WTG Don!!! BTW, I think Chuck has it in the bag.

scott

Ya, your probably right,  Fishy fishm and Scaw had the best chance I thought..

 For me,  It's going to take a Miracle salmon and several upgrades.....

  I'm  just not one to say Die or Uncle

look at the red upper lip on that LMB, my guess is that its been eating 'dads.

right-on my man danglin!!! never surrender!!  p.s remind me not to ask you to build my cabinets.

p.s remind me not to ask you to build my cabinets.

p.s remind me not to ask you to build my cabinets.

Maybe you should ask Santa for a tape measure for your paddle!

Great report and pix, Don! Glad to hear you found a break from life to get back on the water--fishing and paddling are so rejuvenating.

Janice aka "Big J"

right-on my man danglin!!! never surrender!!  p.s remind me not to ask you to build my cabinets.

 Alright Monkey Boy.....

 First of all, I took off a 1/2 inch to quell such coments,...

 If ya notice the AOTY shot would be done to spec ......

 And BTW, I Do not build Things, I Destroy Them ......

   ChuckE.... Have a couple of kids, adopt, get a dog, Something, will ya!!!!!........Danglin

  Danglin,no hard feelings...
by the way, where do you launch at?

Danglin,no hard feelings...

 Ahh,  Thanks,     "Fisherman from Okinawa"

 I'm sure I'm " Guilty " of spelling that wrong

 Looking @ the measurements of some of the top 10,

 kind of gets me as to why I'm " The Poster Child " of bad measurements. ...

 I guess it's the sewing tape,

 I just picked up something that would be easy to deploy and store, thinking that getting close would be good

 enough being this was just for fun. 

 I want to go buy something, but even looking at the tape measure photo's, I see descripensies with those too.

 Waiting to see what Bill comes up with so we can have some consistency,

 I launched @ Markely Cove... $15.00 ....

 Had a couple of issues as to why I launched there...

 I wanted to fish by the dam,   I had all my Firefighting Gear, lap top and extra fishing gear for a poss. sturgeon hunt so,

 I did not want to leave my truck unattended,

Capel cove I guess is the only free launch, that lot @ putah creek is a option,

but a bit of a hike, have not tried it yet,

fish seem to be stacked up @ 30', Gut feeling it's like that all over the Lake...

 probably really hot first thing AM.... Danglin



 

Nice pics and report, Don. 

That Delta salmon is like a space creature!   

p.s remind me not to ask you to build my cabinets.

  Nice job, but you do need to clean up at measuring fish! 

   ChuckE.... Have a couple of kids, adopt, get a dog, Something, will ya!!!!!........Danglin

Hehehe..... I haven't kayak fished in nearly a month, so how can you complain.  Just keep fishing and don't forget that rigid measuring stick 

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