Coenen
Senior Member
Got the 'yak out on Sunday. Late start, probably pushing noon before I got on the water, 12:45 before I got lines in at the spot. Water stained, lots of crud in the top ten feet. Still a good amount of larger debris as well. Be careful out there!
Started with both sides of a mid creek drain that produced nicely last time around. Deployed the freelines and boards, and made a pass was down the flat side, el ziltcho. Came back up the steeper side, had a few marks on sonar, no hookups. Headed out to round a point into the next inlet over, and I saw(at a distance) my first wake boarder of 2018.
Made the turn into the next cut, and saw(close up) my first bikini of 2018, not bad! 
Got back into the drain a little further and marked some fish on the 20-30ft range on the 'Bird. Got a couple of tentative pulls, and picked off one small spot to kick the skunk. Monkeyed around trying to get a couple of his buddies to bite, and couldn't get a whiff. Headed back out towards the channel cheating out into the 35-40 foot range.
About the time I hit the point, both shallow side rods got hit. First aboard was another small spot, followed by a small striper, maybe in the 3-4lb range. Turned back into the first drain I tried and kept it out over deeper water. One of the rods started acting weird, finally pulled it, and found out I had a crappie on my hands! My first for the year, and nice to see that they're starting to move around a bit!
No further action in that area, and I headed for the house. Got buzzed by my first jet skier of '18 about halfway home, of course he looked at me like I was crazy.
Rest of the paddle home was pretty uneventful. Nice day to be out there, hope some of y'all got a chance to enjoy it as well!
Water temps are UP! Surface temp at put in was 52-53, I found 54 out where I was fishing. The real corker was when I pulled back up to the dock, in the cove right in front of my home, the surface temp was sitting at 57+ over 17-20 FOW at 5 o'clock. With more unseasonably warm weather in the forecast for this week, things are about to start changing quickly and breaking loose sooner rather than later.
Started with both sides of a mid creek drain that produced nicely last time around. Deployed the freelines and boards, and made a pass was down the flat side, el ziltcho. Came back up the steeper side, had a few marks on sonar, no hookups. Headed out to round a point into the next inlet over, and I saw(at a distance) my first wake boarder of 2018.
Made the turn into the next cut, and saw(close up) my first bikini of 2018, not bad! Got back into the drain a little further and marked some fish on the 20-30ft range on the 'Bird. Got a couple of tentative pulls, and picked off one small spot to kick the skunk. Monkeyed around trying to get a couple of his buddies to bite, and couldn't get a whiff. Headed back out towards the channel cheating out into the 35-40 foot range.
About the time I hit the point, both shallow side rods got hit. First aboard was another small spot, followed by a small striper, maybe in the 3-4lb range. Turned back into the first drain I tried and kept it out over deeper water. One of the rods started acting weird, finally pulled it, and found out I had a crappie on my hands! My first for the year, and nice to see that they're starting to move around a bit!
No further action in that area, and I headed for the house. Got buzzed by my first jet skier of '18 about halfway home, of course he looked at me like I was crazy.
Rest of the paddle home was pretty uneventful. Nice day to be out there, hope some of y'all got a chance to enjoy it as well!
Water temps are UP! Surface temp at put in was 52-53, I found 54 out where I was fishing. The real corker was when I pulled back up to the dock, in the cove right in front of my home, the surface temp was sitting at 57+ over 17-20 FOW at 5 o'clock. With more unseasonably warm weather in the forecast for this week, things are about to start changing quickly and breaking loose sooner rather than later.
