Post by ikMOON on Jan 1, 2017 20:43:47 GMT -5
Had another chance to get out for some water time and a few education credits. Brought a friend along in the other kayak.
Air: COLD, mostly sunny in the morning, mostly cloudy in the evening, weatherman miss on the wind, as it was relatively calm until afternoon
Water: 44-45 degrees, visibility of a few feet, with a brown/green transition just down from the trestle
Method: Pulled live bait (4-5" jumbo shiners) free lines behind planers and floats, jigged some here and there.
Put in at Moorman's before sunrise.
Everything that got wet was freezing over before the sun was high. I even had a wet fluke tail stick to my spinning rod. In the fall when the water gets too cold to swim I start wearing a pair of breathable chest waders along with a pair of oversized sandals to protect the neoprene stocking feet when I'm getting in and out of the water at launch. But I've got to figure a way to keep my feet warmer when it gets good and cold!!! I wore two pairs of sox, (one thin, one insulated), and some HotHands toe warmers, but they weren't much help.
Early in the day, before 8:00, we had one hook up off a float line, but it came unbuttoned. We were pulling jumbo shiners, not my preference, but what I could get my hands on, and are easy enough to keep at home in a 5 gal bucket. The early hookup gave us some confidence in the offering but it would turn out to be a long day. We went back to the truck around midday for lunch and to warm up, and then back out for the afternoon. Near 4:00 things got more interesting as bait started moving up from where it had been all day to relatively shallow. I had a pull down and a miss, but we had a long drive ahead of us and needed to head that way before 5:00. The morning seemed promising but the evening by far was the fishiest.
The exact coordinates have been blurred to respect the privacy of the bait.
Air: COLD, mostly sunny in the morning, mostly cloudy in the evening, weatherman miss on the wind, as it was relatively calm until afternoon
Water: 44-45 degrees, visibility of a few feet, with a brown/green transition just down from the trestle
Method: Pulled live bait (4-5" jumbo shiners) free lines behind planers and floats, jigged some here and there.
Put in at Moorman's before sunrise.
Everything that got wet was freezing over before the sun was high. I even had a wet fluke tail stick to my spinning rod. In the fall when the water gets too cold to swim I start wearing a pair of breathable chest waders along with a pair of oversized sandals to protect the neoprene stocking feet when I'm getting in and out of the water at launch. But I've got to figure a way to keep my feet warmer when it gets good and cold!!! I wore two pairs of sox, (one thin, one insulated), and some HotHands toe warmers, but they weren't much help.
Early in the day, before 8:00, we had one hook up off a float line, but it came unbuttoned. We were pulling jumbo shiners, not my preference, but what I could get my hands on, and are easy enough to keep at home in a 5 gal bucket. The early hookup gave us some confidence in the offering but it would turn out to be a long day. We went back to the truck around midday for lunch and to warm up, and then back out for the afternoon. Near 4:00 things got more interesting as bait started moving up from where it had been all day to relatively shallow. I had a pull down and a miss, but we had a long drive ahead of us and needed to head that way before 5:00. The morning seemed promising but the evening by far was the fishiest.
The exact coordinates have been blurred to respect the privacy of the bait.