Tahoe - July 17 to 20 - 2008

Thursday 07.17.08

Met up with Fred "da Savage" at Livermore at 1:30AM and we convoyed to Tahoe. We reached the Kings Beach boat ramp around 5AM and got our feet wet half an hour later. Launched in perfect conditions and made live bait right away (red band minnows). Fred caught and released 3 small macks and I caught and kept one 21 incher. We mooched / trooched between 100 to 200 FOW and called it a day by 2PM. Conditions got wet and wild on our paddle back to the launch.....

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That Mack looks well fed.   

Oh MackSlayer, did you slay some blackjack too??  Nice one.

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Tahoe Nessie???? 

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...this particular fella made it's way to one of the minnow traps that Fred had set-up...I WAS gonna use it for bait as you can see, it flashed the "M" for Mooch with it's claws  I simply had to let it go

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....the "sheep" (whitecaps) decided to show up as we made our way back But despite our on-going love/hate relationship, Fred and I managed as we've experienced far worse conditions ever since we've been kayak fishing together 

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After fishing, we had lunch at a small hole-in-da-wall taqueria (Fish Hunter would have approved of it ) and headed to the DL Bliss camp ground. We were greeted by Stuart and his "sweet hearts".

We then set-up camp and had a nice peaceful lake side dinner "NCKA STYLE"  .

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After fishing, we had lunch at a small hole-in-da-wall taqueria

Was the hole in the wall off of Lake tahoe blvd. on south shore.

07.17.08

After fishing, we had lunch at a small hole-in-da-wall taqueria

Was the hole in the wall off of Lake tahoe blvd. on south shore.

...not quite sure....Fred knows for sure -  he recommended the place.

That Mack looks well fed.   

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She was FULL of eggs....I felt bad for killing her I thought it was bloated because I pulled it out from the depths.

The following days (Friday thru Sunday)...we all fed like rockstars  The gathering of food and folks was epic as usual 

BobN preparing mouth-watering-tri tip while Fuzz made some fresh (recently spear fished) white sea bass poke ...yummy stuff

Fuzz and I also trapped and did some free diving for crawdads.....

The days were more focused on spending some quality time with friends and family...rather than the usual "fish harvesting"  IT WAS ALL GOOOOD 

*Here's the beach where we spent most of the day - view from the parking lot...

* ChuckE and his wife Mercy and their adorable "Aki" 

...some under water pics while free diving for crawdads...