sapdawg11
05-06-2011, 08:16 PM
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HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!
LIFE. I remember being a kid...Barely, but I remember it. NOT A FLIPPIN' CARE IN THE WORLD! Fished whenever I could, partied as hard as I could, and woke up each and every day thinking, "I'm going to do this forever!". WRONG! People look at me and say, "you're still young" and to them I say, "Being 30 isn't being 20!" See, I'm already lying about my age!! I'm 31!!! Looking at my wife, my home, my dogs and a baby on the way, I feel all grown up in thinking and knowing that I have friggin' responsibilities. But becoming a grown-up isn't at all bad. I love my wife, my home, my dogs, and my baby on the way. But I also love my sanity. In the busyness of life, fishing keeps me sane. And on the cusp of a mental overload, I needed my medicine. No reports of a heat wave, no talk about warm water, no responsibilities were going to keep me off of the water yesterday. And life always amazes me in how it gives back...even to us grown ups!!
That's all the depth I can stand putting in a fishing report...For those that stuck around this long, here's the "dope". The fishing yesterday was absolutely the best I have had it this entire season and I truly don't say that lightly. You guys have seen first-hand a few of the awesome adventures I've had at Corona Lake this season, but it just doesn't get any better than yesterday afternoon. For those that haven't seen me at the Lake floating around in the float tube du jour, fishing the afternoon sessions in my kayak has become my recent gig. I've been having a blast chasing the trout at dusk and the whiskerfish in the dark. But following the stocking of Tailwalkers and with this trout season's end on the horizon, I left the heavy sticks and mackerel at home and went to the Lake with the sole intention of killing some of my old friends...Oncorhynchus mykiss.
Arrived at the lake after another long one at work to find 4, maybe 5, boats on the water and a nearly empty shoreline. From the moment my bait hit the water, it was absolutely wide open. There have been considerable hatches and molts of various creepy crawlers in the water and things got still enough yesterday afternoon that I was watching the fish POUND the larvae and the newly hatched flying versions of a variety of arthropods. If you want to see the outcome of this evening "hatch" for yourselves, just look in the water just before the sun sets and you'll see the exoskeletons and other debris floating around. Just massive footprints all evening from fish slurping up these little critters. In any event, "matching the hatch" wasn't an option as the fly rod hung on the rack at home and thus I stuck with the standards...minijigs and trout worms. Turns out they wanted to eat those too...EN MASSE! Myself and one other guy in a boat throwing various plastics were just absolutely killing them from the courtesy dock to Brad's Trout Tree until granted another glorious opportunity to watch the sun fall below the Santa Ana Mountains from on the water. It just does not get any better.
Grown-up responsibility once again beckons (this time in the form of my wife shouting, "Dinner's ready!") so I'll leave you with the details. Get out there and enjoy it. Yesterday was one heck of an opportunity to enjoy the last stocking of the season. If there was any ounce of a chance that I could get out there this weekend, I'd be there in a heartbeat. I say that like I'm not going to try to look for that chance with every passing second...if you see a beige kayak out there in the afternoon, come by and say hi!
Rods: 8' Phenix elixer, 7' Gloomis and 7' Daiwa Custom
Reels: Ci4's and a symetre 750
Line: 2 lb of whatever brands I have on there now
At the end of the line: Bait, jigs, worms...any color, any brand. I was just reaching into my bag and pinning on whatever came up. I even got a chance to get them on a casted CD5 firetiger rapala! Been a while with that one and it only took 2 casts!!
Good times are ahead...the next mission has already begun...
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HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!
LIFE. I remember being a kid...Barely, but I remember it. NOT A FLIPPIN' CARE IN THE WORLD! Fished whenever I could, partied as hard as I could, and woke up each and every day thinking, "I'm going to do this forever!". WRONG! People look at me and say, "you're still young" and to them I say, "Being 30 isn't being 20!" See, I'm already lying about my age!! I'm 31!!! Looking at my wife, my home, my dogs and a baby on the way, I feel all grown up in thinking and knowing that I have friggin' responsibilities. But becoming a grown-up isn't at all bad. I love my wife, my home, my dogs, and my baby on the way. But I also love my sanity. In the busyness of life, fishing keeps me sane. And on the cusp of a mental overload, I needed my medicine. No reports of a heat wave, no talk about warm water, no responsibilities were going to keep me off of the water yesterday. And life always amazes me in how it gives back...even to us grown ups!!
That's all the depth I can stand putting in a fishing report...For those that stuck around this long, here's the "dope". The fishing yesterday was absolutely the best I have had it this entire season and I truly don't say that lightly. You guys have seen first-hand a few of the awesome adventures I've had at Corona Lake this season, but it just doesn't get any better than yesterday afternoon. For those that haven't seen me at the Lake floating around in the float tube du jour, fishing the afternoon sessions in my kayak has become my recent gig. I've been having a blast chasing the trout at dusk and the whiskerfish in the dark. But following the stocking of Tailwalkers and with this trout season's end on the horizon, I left the heavy sticks and mackerel at home and went to the Lake with the sole intention of killing some of my old friends...Oncorhynchus mykiss.
Arrived at the lake after another long one at work to find 4, maybe 5, boats on the water and a nearly empty shoreline. From the moment my bait hit the water, it was absolutely wide open. There have been considerable hatches and molts of various creepy crawlers in the water and things got still enough yesterday afternoon that I was watching the fish POUND the larvae and the newly hatched flying versions of a variety of arthropods. If you want to see the outcome of this evening "hatch" for yourselves, just look in the water just before the sun sets and you'll see the exoskeletons and other debris floating around. Just massive footprints all evening from fish slurping up these little critters. In any event, "matching the hatch" wasn't an option as the fly rod hung on the rack at home and thus I stuck with the standards...minijigs and trout worms. Turns out they wanted to eat those too...EN MASSE! Myself and one other guy in a boat throwing various plastics were just absolutely killing them from the courtesy dock to Brad's Trout Tree until granted another glorious opportunity to watch the sun fall below the Santa Ana Mountains from on the water. It just does not get any better.
Grown-up responsibility once again beckons (this time in the form of my wife shouting, "Dinner's ready!") so I'll leave you with the details. Get out there and enjoy it. Yesterday was one heck of an opportunity to enjoy the last stocking of the season. If there was any ounce of a chance that I could get out there this weekend, I'd be there in a heartbeat. I say that like I'm not going to try to look for that chance with every passing second...if you see a beige kayak out there in the afternoon, come by and say hi!
Rods: 8' Phenix elixer, 7' Gloomis and 7' Daiwa Custom
Reels: Ci4's and a symetre 750
Line: 2 lb of whatever brands I have on there now
At the end of the line: Bait, jigs, worms...any color, any brand. I was just reaching into my bag and pinning on whatever came up. I even got a chance to get them on a casted CD5 firetiger rapala! Been a while with that one and it only took 2 casts!!
Good times are ahead...the next mission has already begun...
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