Lake Mendocino Fish & Chill - Oct 14-16, 2011

Got to Mendo Friday right at noon. Secured a couple of campsites and Mike/Mickfish followed soon after. Weather was Hot and humid. Mike and I decided to chill and do some catching-up. After dinner we fished the shoreline but to no avail.
Saturday morning rolls around and as I was sleeping in my truck (I had my tail gate down since it was a warm night) something was grabbing my feet and trying to drag me out of my truck    Effing Adam/Fishunter was being "funny"  He was lucky my M-4 Airsoft gun had no ammo at the time    After a quick breakfast, the 3 of us paddled and trolled towards barn cove - no joy - but it the weather was EPIC and we only saw one ski boat on the water. We found a cove and parked our yaks for some cheese, salami and crackers....a little mendo bro-mance is always a good thing We then fished Vinegar point and Adam had a momentary "fish-on" but was off the hook after a run or two. We then headed back to camp for a late afternoon / dinner and some Hammock time....

....Saturday late afternoon, Jdyak pulls into camp and joins us for dinner prep. Adam grills some seasoned potato wedges, I made some chili and Mike grilled some Korean short ribs. Dinner was well represented as always...

Sunday. Mike, Jd and I fished up the river. Mike picked up a few smallies while I paddled along the vegetation looking for signs of bass / panfish. Found some population and I used my ultra-light rod and had a blast catching and releasing the bluegills and little bass. Was hoping for a crappie but they were elsewhere.

Mooch w/ a fosters...FH with a beard...I haven't seen you guys in a looong time. At least Mickfish looks the same

Looks a nice campout wit da boyz. WTG! You don't even need fish with that crowd.

PS: Mooch, just be glad FH was only tickling your feet, he could have made you sit up all night fending off raccoons.

That is what I will always remember Lake Mendo for is Fish and Chill. Sorry I couldn't make it this time around.

Jedmo

Jd brought his newly acquired John boat and took it on it's maiden voyage. It served it's purpose collection fire wood and being the designated  "beer mothership boat" ....

Looks like a good time.   

Beer mothership.   

We only fished half the day on Sunday and we met Sean at the dock and did some chillin and snacked on some man-dogs before we said our good byes.

Sean, shows us how to heave a fly....and he catches a little large mouth bass on the process.

PS: Mooch, just be glad FH was only tickling your feet, he could have made you sit up all night fending off raccoons.

Yeah, I was thinking pay back. I planned on snaring a squirrel and slapping it a few times before tossing it into Adams SUV while he was asleep  Unfortunately, the squirrels were "street smart" 

Adam will be sleeping with one eye open on the the next fish n chill event....no doubt 

It was good to relax with the boys and the weather couldn't have been better not a ripple on the lake all day Sat and the temp was just right. There was a pretty good Smalllie bite going on but we were trolling around hoping for a Striper we should have switched over. I did on for a little while on Sun and got a few nice fish. As I came up to the river mouth on Sat the Hobie Crew was looking much better than ours.

Mooch continues too amaze me by the size of fish he catches must have been someting he learned in the islands.
Look how high the water is by BAM camp

Mooch thanks for bringing IZ listening to him always makes a great time even better.

Mooch continues too amaze me by the size of fish he catches must have been someting he learned in the islands.

Mike, you should know by now that any fish of any size isn't safe from da Mooch 

Nice someone had a quiet relaxing time this weekend   and Got Some...

Nice lookin' boat, John.