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I was Solo and trying not to hurt the fish so not the best Hero Shots.

I can’t add photos as quickly as I would like

First 18 inch Brown

Pretty chilly Morning to the day. I waited until it got to 32 degrees to start my day. I fished from 1100 to 1600. it was pretty breezy and cloudy. I should have had more layers. I opted to fish up below the dam in the Catch and Release zone. I launched at the Golf course side. My first fish came while the boat was still on the trailer. The motor was warming up and I made a couple of casts. Bang ! Above average Rainbow. A few minutes after actually launching the boat, I caught a 18 inch Brown. It was strong and jumped and made some runs. Bites were not rapid fire, but the fish were all quality. Water was dropping out. And wind was blowing upstream pretty hard. Not optimal, but I kept grinding. I ran up to the bottom of the Restricted Zone, but I never got a bite up there. I did locate several areas that were holding fish. I cycled around through them. I was able to fine tune as the water dropped out. It was probably running 6K and dropped to 3500 CFS by the time I left. 1/8 oz Zig Jig on 6 lb Nano with 6 lb co-poly leader. Olive/Ginger ; Olive/Orange ; Tri Olive. I kept catching quality fish. I got a 20 inch Brown that really cut up. I was actually surprised it was only 20 inches. Biggest Rainbow was only 17 inches, but really pulled. I caught a couple of walleye 15 and 17 inches. I had one 13 inch Cuttie , but it’s color was drab so no pic. I ended up with 5 quality Browns. 2 x 20 ; 2 X 18 , and a 17 incher. I fished with 41 fish altogether. I left cold, but Happy.

He wants to sell them in one big lot? An individual listing of each rod would likely sell some on here.

If you just wanted to try one, I’m sure you could have arranged a float with an OA guy and used their boat at No Charge. Pescadors can be purchased for a lot less than $1000. Probably twice the price of a cheap boat and I believe they are a quality product that would paddle better, store gear better, and fish better. And if stored properly, serve you well for 10 years or more. Im not trying to push someone into spending mote than they can afford, but rather buy at a really good price break point. Like many things there is a point of diminishing returns where you are spending a lot more with little demonstrable benefit. Pescador gets you a lot for a little more than bargain basement and if you hated it after a few trips, you could have sold it for $100 less than you paid for it. but buy what you like

Perception Pescador. Is the best value. Great boat; low price. Bargin boats usually aren’t a great boat only a low price. I certainly hope your Happy with your boat. Good Fishing !

I have not seen him yet.

You most def do not want to risk your recovery. I Hate it, but I understand it

I’ve got an old long shaft 9.9 Evinrude I’d let you have for a song.

Yeah, my phone was Super helpful then. I have not done much camping out of my kayaks. I use a 17 foot tandem canoe. I can’t hate on your decision, but it makes me sad somehow. I love boats. I love fishing. I’m starting to really dislike nasty, cold weather and heavy rains. C’mon Spring.

Solo canoes are a little harder to come by and generally more expensive than yaks. Unless I specifically say solo canoe, I’m talking about tandem models. I know almost nothing about solo canoes and so have never paddled one. For 99.44 % of the population, they are going to be functional in a SOT kayak much faster than in a tandem canoe. Let me know if you want to argue that point.

Perception Pescador is the best value on the market. I would go 12 footer. It is faster than the 10 footer and has more carrying capacity. Canoes can always carry more, but yaks are a lot easier to paddle. Edited cos my fingers and phone hate me.

I’m not very good with an A Rig. I haven’t put the time in with it.

I don’t think the price is reasonable at all, but it is where the market is at.

You might want to avoid upper Bull Shoals or your 12-14 will become 6-8 pretty quickly with the Zebra mussels. look at the bright side, they would be easier to count.

Hey John, Be excited when things Go Well, be something when they don’t. #FlatAffect

No Sir! If I enjoyed eating them, I would keep s few from time to time. Sadly, I just don’t enjoy eating them.

I was Happy about that for my daughter. I have a fairly wide temperature tolerance.

I took my daughter fishing today. I think we fished about 4 hours. Since I did so poorly on the White yesterday and since she wanted to get a bigger trout than last time (Christmas Day), I took her to Norfork. Parking lot had no other boat trailers when we got there, but a couple of knuckleheads in the way. I get that it’s fun to bank fish, but don’t block the boat ramp. Just saying. I let her get a few warm up fish in the slower water near Gene’s trout dock. I could fish there too and caught a 1/2 dozen or so. I only cast a handful of times below there. Chloe got a decent Rainbow with a big Chestnut Lamprey attached. She was appropriately disgusted with the lamprey. She refreshed her casting skills and caught a couple more fish and away we went. We dropped down into Long Hole and first cast at a micro eddy she hooks a Big Cutthroat in high current. She did a good job and got him in. We pulled over and got some good pictures. That sort of set the stage. I guided her letting her cast into small back eddies. She hooked quite a few and landed probably a dozen or so all day. She had a 17 inch Cutthroat and a 16 inch Rainbow. She lost a pretty decent Brown, but did catch a smallish male Brown. I really hoped she could get a Brook Trout and complete the Slam, but it did not happen. She’s a natural at fishing like her Mom and lives and dies on every hookset like her Daddy. She got pretty aggravated with the fish that came off, but was so Happy with the ones she caught. (You could take a lesson from this John ). I look forward to our next father/daughter trip. Smallies this Spring is on the Schedule.