Lake Mendo, 10-18

Hit up lake Mendo with Bob and his son on Saturday. Picked up minnows at the Mendo bait shop and were in the water by about 8:00AM. We marked tons of fish right off the south ramp, but decided to head over to Crappie Cove. Things were pretty slow at first with Bob and his son both picking up a largemouth in the shallows, then a little later both of them hooked up with the right kind in 8' of water. We all stayed in the shallows for a bit and I picked up a 16" smallie. The bite died down for a bit and we were getting bored and decided to call it a day. As we were paddling along the north side of the cove Bob yells out that i still haven't gotten a striper and I'll need to "pull one out of my ass". I reply that yes, I do in fact need the coveted "Hail Mary" fish. Not even two minutes later in 16' of water my pole doubles over and I boat my first striper of the day. A few minutes later Dillon (Bob's son) hooks up, then Bob. Word! We found the fish and did multiple drifts through the same little pocket of water. To make a long story short I ended up catching seven stripers (two double hook ups), Bob landed 6 (had his first double), and Dillon caught two. We left at 4:00PM right in the middle of a wide open bite, too, because I had to get home by 6:00PM 'cause some of the fellas were coming over to watch UFC. Turns out that the UFC didn't start 'til 9:00PM. D'oh!

Anyway, it was nice to get back out and finally land some fish from the yak. I'll be in Vegas this week-end, but might head back next week-end.

Glad to see several fish caught out of there. Too bad you couldn't stick around.

Great Report R.H.

Congratulations to Bob and Dillon.

Father son time OTW like that is priceless.

Thanks for the pics,

S.

Good to see, someone is catching fish. EXCELLANT pics. Thanks for the report. 

Sweet!!!!!! nice pictures and thanks for sharing.

Kiel

Thanks for an awesome report and pictures Rock Hopper. My son had
so much fun there at Mendo kayaking for the first time during BAMIV.


Jedmo

Nice! Thats tough to leave. Did you let them all go or bring one home for the grill?

Nice report...

Thanks, er'body. I'm waitin' on some more pictures from Bob. I know everyone here loves a little fish porn!

BTW - all fish were released.

Sweet!  Glad there was no pic of you pulling that hail mary striper out of your...  well, you know what Bob said!   

Congrats, Dustin - that'll help the AOTY score, eh?  I can't pull up AOTY pages today...

Thanks for the report.   

Congrats, Dustin - that'll help the AOTY score, eh?  I can't pull up AOTY pages today...

Thanks, but I'm so far behind in the AOTY that I haven't even bothered to submit any fish this year. Maybe next year!

WOW!....these look like COPIES from days gone by are you SURE you guys actally went out on your kayaks and fished?.....O.K. you must have, Ive never seen that guy before......GoodJod and way to get out even if it was a Quickie!

WOW!....these look like COPIES from days gone by are you SURE you guys actally went out on your kayaks and fished?.....O.K. you must have, Ive never seen the girl before......GoodJod and way to get out even if it was a Quickie!

Ummm....that's Bob's son, bro! 

Opps,good thing he never visits...i did correct it, can you?
thePICwasTINY,IcouldNOTtell!