Took a nice little boat ride on Almanor yesterday afternoon. As is all too common for me, we hooked one fish almost immediately then nothing for 2 more hours. Still, a nice day and something to put on the grill…
(Yeah, I know. My edits were a little hasty and the soundtrack isn’t exactly lined up)
I took a little paddle at Almanor back in May. I didn’t hook any giants but I got 8 frisky smalleys in a few hours and the lake was calm and quiet…
Just a clip from a June father/son outing. This is the first smallmouth James got at Butt lake without help and it was the first cast on a Berkley Flicker Shad I wanted to try out…
Wow! Has it been this long since this beast has been fed? Time to fix THAT!
Armed with my new GoPro and my custom made kayak mount made by modifying a cheap monopod, I headed out to fish the Eagle Lake Opener in my kayak on May 24, 2014. As expected, the lake was low and the fish were small. The camera mount is a good start but I need to do something to deaden the resonance that causes every little tap to be a nasty thump on the audio track. While I’m at it, I should practice better lens cleaning techniques too (and I have a filter adapter coming that should allow me to mount a polarizer do knock down some glare on the water). Overall, not a terrible start with a new toy.
Here are a few shots from the morning of May 19,2009. Ernie, Jimmy and I (and Taz) went out and trolled around on Almanor. The fishing was pretty slow (as usual in May) but Jimmy caught one nice little salmon…
Taz couldn’t decide if he wanted to go swimming or not….
Well, so far the 2008 Eagle Lake season is going well. As of today, I’ve caught 40 fish this season, averaging 3 pounds or so with a few in the high 4’s (haven’t been able to quite break 5 yet). I haven’t gotten any great photos but here’s a couple of “bar-b-quers” that Ernie took home one day after we caught 14 fish between us…
Just your basic little 8 1/2 pound, 2 fish limit.
Here are some shots from Bucks Lake in June of 2008:
Heading out…
Jimmy Fighting the big ones…..
Jimmy with his first Mackinaws…
Headin’ back to camp after a successful day on the water….
Jimmy also got a decent number of small kokanees. Aside from the smoke (there were numerous forest fires surrounding the area), it was a great long weekend!
Just a few shots of some rainbows I caught on the evening of September 2, 2007. I was fishing just below Keswick Dam in the last hour or 2 before dark throwing spoons. I was fishing alone so getting good photos was difficult.
I took Jimmy back up to Shotoverin Lake on July 14.
We caught one nice little trout….
As usual, the catfish were biting nicely…
There was only one other fisherman on the lake that day…
I almost got a decent photo of him plying his trade. He was just too far away (and too darn quick) for me and my equipment…
Back to catfishin’….
All in all, it was a great afternoon!
Here are a few shots of a little family outing we took back in July to Shotoverin Lake.
It’s a pretty little lake…
And it’s full of small catfish which Jimmy had a blast catching…
And best of all Laura did an exceptional job of capturing my belly fat in the camera. Thanks alot sweety!
