Los Vaqueros Striper

I know it's not a kayak fishing pic but I have a Adventurer now (bought last week) and I feel more officially a member of the NCKA family.

This was caught in Feb of this year on a 3 1/2 inch purple/white Clouser minnow, a little less than 12lbs stripping in from about 15 feet of water.

Robert

Wow, what a blast I bet that was.  Nice catch!

And congrats on the Adventure.  I'm part of the big A club as well.

nice fish!  On the fly to boot!!
Welcome 

That must have been way to much fun! Thanks for the pics&port

That must have been way to much fun! Thanks for the pics&port

Too much fun.. about a 10 minute fight, I stripped him near the boat about 5 times each time he saw the boat he made another run...  all that time I was thinking and questioning all the knots I tied crossing my fingers they were not going to break

Wtg, awesome fish to catch on the fly!! 

Sweet catch on a fly rod Robert.

Jedmo

That must have been way to much fun! Thanks for the pics&port

Too much fun.. about a 10 minute fight, I stripped him near the boat about 5 times each time he saw the boat he made another run...  all that time I was thinking and questioning all the knots I tied crossing my fingers they were not going to break

Idk anything bout clucks ing.  Does stripping mean you were not on the reel?  Like you pulled in the line by hand?

Yakuza,  I did land the fish without using the reel.  It was about a 90 foot cast and the striper hit half way into the retrieve.  There were times I thought the fish would make it to the reel but it never got there.  My rule of thumb is that the fish has to fight for the right to get to the reel   but don't let my tired fingers know that!

Nice fish for sure. Purple/White Clouser? Wow. I always use more natural colors, maybe I need  to change it up.

@yakusa: Stripping is how you bring in a streamer on a fly rod. What he was saying was that the line he had brought in with the pulls never got fully pulled out by the fighting fish—so the fish never pulled it all out and "got on the reel" meaning pulling fresh line off the reel past his cast out length so to speak.

Fly fishing for Stripers is addictive, I got hooked over a dozen years ago and can't kick the habit.
You feel the fish like no other tackle can let you feel them. If I could fish only one way, it would be by fly.

B E A U T I F U L !

I was dismayed to learn they don't allow personal boats there—you have to rent and it's $45 for a half day for an electric boat. I suppose that's not bad if you have a buddy to fly fish with, but counting gasoline for travel  that's a bit steep. Too bad, I guess I'll just stick with the Forebay and San Luis. Fishing is rapidly becoming like skiing—cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Everywhere you go it's pay, pay, pay. And they wonder why license applications are down year over year over year. Adding on cost after cost isn't the way to save fishing as a sport. Not that the water resources folks care about fishing.

That's a Great spot to fish.  It's really too bad they don't allow yaks.  It makes no sense to me that they allow the rental boats but nothing else.  There 's a huge lake expansion coming in the next year or two.  Maybe the no yak rule will be changed.  Los Vaqueros is a very interesting body of water.  It's a storage facility that is only drawn upon when salinity levels are high in the Delta.  The whole issue of body contact with "drinking water" lakes is a mystery to me.  it seems very I consistent.  I just don't see the difference between electric powered rental boats and people powered yaks.  The "patrol" boat at Los Vaqueros is powered by a gas outboard.

I was dismayed to learn they don't allow personal boats there—you have to rent and it's $45 for a half day for an electric boat.

That price is steep but I fish there during the week when the price is half off so 5 hours is $25 and all day is just a little more.  I have to take a day off to fish but it's worth it

That price is steep but I fish there during the week when the price is half off so 5 hours is $25 and all day is just a little more.  I have to take a day off to fish but it's worth it

There's an idea. Wish I hadn't used most of my vacation to move this year.