Maiden Voyage

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Finally got to pop the cherry on my new kayak Friday and took my first river trip, floating the 3-mile stretch from 21 to WSP.  Put in around 9:30 and water temps were at 43 degrees; climbed to 46 by the time I got off the water at 3.  Not much happening, as I spent most of the trip getting acclimated to the new rig and new-to-me river fishing. Enjoying a beautiful 70+ degree February day on the water was all I was after, so actually landing a dink spot was gravy.  I did have to burn through a pretty good pool about 2/3 of the way through the float, thanks to a flurry of target practice happening just off the shoreline.  I wasn't too interested in exploring that pool for too long.

HD craw, spinner, ned, and jerkbait all got skunked. The dink bit on a super fluke in a long, deep (10') pool.

On the downside, when I loaded the kayak on my roof for the short trek to my campsite at WSP I didn't tie it down very well thinking i just had to get to camp and could button it up then.  Naturally, I dumped the darn thing going around a turn. Lesson learned.  I just hope the transducer survived the fall!

Looking forward to many more outings... ideally with more fish and less self-inflicted damage.