AV Duct March Report

[slacker189]

AV has been slow. I was able to locate a few fish with intel from yolo. There has hardly been any flow in the AV. Flukes and Pointers have been productive.


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First fish on my new kistler rod. Thanks to a good friend who turned me onto kistler's american made rods, you know who you are.



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The still water of the duct, look closely and you'll see a deer across the duct




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Careful, this is the bite you don't want when you go fishing.



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The LMB population is increasing in the AV



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schoolie striper


The following pics are of my son's first catches of LMB in the owens valley. I am getting him prepared for the drag peeling duct stripers... baby steps lol

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I'm certainly not making high numbers of fish in the AV, but it hasn't been too bad.

[JDS13]

That is outstanding, good job on the fish, I used to live in Quartz Hill when I was younger and id fish the aqua quak around goaties pass usually suffering the sunk. If I knew then what I know now I would have done better. I never have seen deer up there but plenty of diamond backs and mojave greens, thanks for the report.

[cutbait]

What kinda rattler is that?


I barfed when I saw a couple of those pics!



Good work starting the kid off slow... don't wanna scare him too early with stripers

[fishinone]

Nice job pouring the young man on fish!

Congrats on the AV catches.

Those rattlers are out and about for sure.

[slacker189]

What kinda rattler is that?


I barfed when I saw a couple of those pics!



Good work starting the kid off slow... don't wanna scare him too early with stripers


had to do some research myself, it looks to be a juvenile southern pacific rattlesnake according to www.californiaherps.com
http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/images/cohellerijuvla506.jpg

[trail blazer]

Great report,,,,,,,,,,I HATE RATTLE SNAKES!,,,But there not going anywhere that's for sure,,,,,,,,,great pics of your boy,,

thanks

TRAIL BLAZER

[cutbait]

I'm so scared of snakes as I scrolled down on my phone I lifted my thumb as it passed over the snake pics

[trail blazer]

I almost shoved a flathead shovel between my computer and monitor


TRAIL BLAZER

[slacker189]

I'm not afraid of snakes, but I certainly would not want a rattle snake bite.

Now spiders I am utterly afraid of. My wife has to kill all the spiders in the the house lol. She's brave, she just grabs the "chancla" and goes to town lol

[cutbait]

Spiders no biggie.. I can squeeze them between my fingers no problem, even black widows...


Snakes? I'm so bad I pick my feet up if I happen to run one over

[ZipperWurm]

awesome pics and catches mike. your recent fish definitely have more size than the bako fugitives i've been landing out here :Razz: but still fun to catch nonetheless!

[jdduckman]

I am not a fan of snakes either. Never seen any other than the greenies out at the duct.
I run them over. Heard that a guy changing a tire got poked by a fang stuck in the tire
and got pretty sick.
Was out dove hunting one time and a Mojave got his fangs caught in my snake chaps. It
took all the rational thought I had to keep from trying to shoot him off of my leg. Was able
to knock him off with the barrel and then shoot him!