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Thanks, good idea, maybe find some big mamas by dropping a creature into their living room.

Launched out of Big M today at 0600 with Jeb in the back of the boat. We zipped out to some gravel points that have had a topwater bite the last couple of weeks and we did find a good bite that lasted for about an hour, got a bit of wind across the points and it put them down for some reason, you would have thought it would have really fired them up, but it didn't. After that we fished buck brush throwing shakey heads and jigs, picking up fish here and there and an occasional top water fish. The bite really slowed down about 1030 and we were on the trailer at 1:30 PM. We did pick up a few more in the last cove we fished c-rigging. Ended up with close to 50 bass, no big ones, but a couple of 2.5 lb. bass, quite a few chunky 13-16" spots and a couple of smallies. Lots of fun. Jeb did a little Jika rig fishing, got a few fish with a trick worm on it. Water temp 71 when we left, visibility about 6 - 8 feet. Moss has pretty much disappeared in the area.

I was getting my TW bites around a couple of gravel points, most of the fish were in about 3-10 FOW. But there was surface activity all the way out to mid-channel over 50+ FOW. I didn't chase those fish, but they were there.

It was a tough call, just didn't want to deal with cleaning fish.

HAHA, that is funny!

Yeah I meant store it, we did have a place that offered reasonably safe storage, but for political reasons it got shot down, so now we just store it all close to the plants that produce it. It's the dumb option and the unsafe option, but why be smart about things?

Started off with a bit of a topwater bite, only put 6 topwater fish in the boat, but good keeper sized LM's for the most part, spots weren't participating in the topwater bite for some reason. After the top water shut off, did some shaky heads, craws, and jigs but couldn't get anything going, picked up a dozen or so on that stuff but smaller 12" fish for the most part (I'm blaming it on the weather change). Back on the trailer at noon. Threw a Rage Tail Lobster at a dock, felt a bite, set the hook and hooked into something that felt like a water logged stick. Felt a little movement, and I thought maybe it's an old T-shirt that's been sitting on the bottom. Got it up to the boat and saw that it was a walleye. 19" fish, but I was merciful and released it. Water temp 70, 6-8 feet of visibility.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing! Jitterbug, I'll be darned, I have some that I haven't fished in years.

Thanks for the report, and glad to hear the slime is getting off the bottom. That stuff drives me crazy. I might be out there tomorrow if the next round of storms don't mess things up.

Thanks for posting that, that's in the range of what I found, I figure around $20 K for my house. my electric bill runs about $1500 a year, so if I could save $500/year on my bill, it would be 40 years to break even, leaving out any maintenance expenses that may pop up along the way.

We figured out a way to dispose of spent fuel, but it wasn't politically acceptable.

I hope they wrote him a big ticket. If a person is going to keep dinky little fish, why not load up on bluegills, there's probably a bazillion of them in Stockton.

Yes thanks for the report!

Thanks, I'm interested in what the current install cost is.

Thanks for the report, I was wondering how the Jika rigged creatures will do, seems it should have big fish potential.

Very nice!

I'm still in the "complicating" part of the cycle, so I'm no help with simplifying.

Nice one! Where do these bass get released? Not that I'm asking that for information as to where to fish for them, but I'm hoping they dispersed throughout the lake rather than released at the weigh-in site.

Last I checked, maybe a year ago or so, they did not provide credit for surplus energy produced. But if that's changed, I'm all ears.

I wish they would do it here for $200, unfortunately we can't send surplus back into the grid.

What was the total cost for the solar power installation? If you're willing to spend enough money, then you can probably power your house and charge your electric car with solar power. I've thought about installing solar panels on my house, but the payback doesn't work out.

I've had people pull in front of me all the time when in my bass boat, so don't feel like they are picking on you because you're in a kayak. It sucks for sure but there's just so many boats out there, especially on the weekends.

Thanks for the info, I may give them a try next week if the storms that are supposed to come through don't blow everything out.

The Cards uniform is a classic.

Anyone know if the crappie have spawned on Beaver?