Smalliebigs Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Seth looks like a great day on the water. Was the wind as bad there as it was here? IT WAS WHERE WE FISHED......fishing in a yak in the wind sucks!!! I'm ready for a jet, the frustration level was high for me yesterday. We caught 8 fish between the two of us, two Smallies and 6Spots from 10 to 14 inches....ouch!!! but, fishing from a yak you are limited. If we would have had a jet we could have been able to do a run and identify the productive holes, with a yak you are limited to how much water you can fish and how long you can keep the bait in the zone it needs to be in to get bit.....sorry for the rant but, I'm just not liking fishing from a boat at water level...I guess I just got too used to fishing from the bow of a boat with a trolling motor in front of me??? I have a lot of respect for the guys that can hammer big river fish from a canoe/kayak like Al Agnew, CGB or Andy...it is a skill prerequisite you must have....it's not easy to nail big ones all the time from canoe/kayak........jesus I'm a bitch!!!!! it was better than watching Disney jr....Paul and I laughed a lot. Seth 1
Al Agnew Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 IT WAS WHERE WE FISHED......fishing in a yak in the wind sucks!!! I'm ready for a jet, the frustration level was high for me yesterday. We caught 8 fish between the two of us, two Smallies and 6Spots from 10 to 14 inches....ouch!!! but, fishing from a yak you are limited. If we would have had a jet we could have been able to do a run and identify the productive holes, with a yak you are limited to how much water you can fish and how long you can keep the bait in the zone it needs to be in to get bit.....sorry for the rant but, I'm just not liking fishing from a boat at water level...I guess I just got too used to fishing from the bow of a boat with a trolling motor in front of me??? I have a lot of respect for the guys that can hammer big river fish from a canoe/kayak like Al Agnew, CGB or Andy...it is a skill prerequisite you must have....it's not easy to nail big ones all the time from canoe/kayak........jesus I'm a bitch!!!!! it was better than watching Disney jr....Paul and I laughed a lot. All you have to do is practice handling the canoe for 45 years (and 5 years before that paddling a 12 ft. johnboat) like I have...it's easy. Really, though, the wind is no fun for me in the canoe, either. It ain't even much fun in a jetboat. The last two times I've been fishing it's been in somebody else's boat. I fished Lake of the Ozarks with Zipstick this past weekend, and he had me run the trolling motor for a short while, and before that I attempted to run Greasy's boat on the Meramec. Both times it was in the wind, and both trolling motors had foot controls that were a different design than mine. Also, neither had a butt seat set up on the front like I do; just an open deck. I can handle my own boat in the wind with the trolling motor, but no way I could handle theirs efficiently, and I was forever off balance trying to run it without the butt seat to lean on.
joeD Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 The fish fillets looked just about done. Mound of taters did not. MMmm. Fried fish.
MOsmallies Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 All you have to do is practice handling the canoe for 45 years (and 5 years before that paddling a 12 ft. johnboat) like I have...it's easy. Really, though, the wind is no fun for me in the canoe, either. It ain't even much fun in a jetboat. The last two times I've been fishing it's been in somebody else's boat. I fished Lake of the Ozarks with Zipstick this past weekend, and he had me run the trolling motor for a short while, and before that I attempted to run Greasy's boat on the Meramec. Both times it was in the wind, and both trolling motors had foot controls that were a different design than mine. Also, neither had a butt seat set up on the front like I do; just an open deck. I can handle my own boat in the wind with the trolling motor, but no way I could handle theirs efficiently, and I was forever off balance trying to run it without the butt seat to lean on. I agree that I need a butt seat to lean against while running the trolling motor as well. I saw the nice A-rig fish Zipstick caught. How'd you guys fair the rest of the weekend? I need to get back down to LOZ before the tournament season goes nuts in March.
Al Agnew Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Pretty slow overall. Zipstick's fish was the biggest, it was somewhere between 5 and 6 pounds. We both caught a few 15-17 inchers, caught a total of 13 crappie for a nice meal or two. Bass seemed to be transitioning from secondary points to near the back ends of coves. That was Zipstick's only fish caught on the A-rig, most of the fish we caught were on jerkbaits, though I caught a couple on jigs. Believe it or not, that was my first time fishing LOZ. I ain't used to looking up from any point on the water and seeing a thousand houses and boat docks!
Ham Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 You Da Man Bret! Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish
dtrs5kprs Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Pretty slow overall. Zipstick's fish was the biggest, it was somewhere between 5 and 6 pounds. We both caught a few 15-17 inchers, caught a total of 13 crappie for a nice meal or two. Bass seemed to be transitioning from secondary points to near the back ends of coves. That was Zipstick's only fish caught on the A-rig, most of the fish we caught were on jerkbaits, though I caught a couple on jigs. Believe it or not, that was my first time fishing LOZ. I ain't used to looking up from any point on the water and seeing a thousand houses and boat docks! It is like trying to fish in a St Louis subdivision or mall parking lot. Good lake, but not my taste.
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