PFD
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With all the good reports and a great weather forecast, I decided to throw the kayak in the truck and see if I could wind my way to the waters edge from blue notch. The road up over the pass and down into the bottom was the best it’s ever been. A road grader had recently been through there and knocked off all the wash boards. It was extremely dusty, but nice and smooth. After hunting my way in having to backtrack several times I finally found a way to the waters edge. I got the kayak out and started trolling up stripers almost immediately. This trip I was having the best success on an umbrella rig because I couldn’t go my normal 3 1/2 to 4 miles an hour with my pedal drive kayak. It’s difficult leaving the big boat behind to go camp and fish from a kayak for three days but this weekend was epic. As always, I didn’t take very many pictures, but I was too busy loading up the kayak heading back in to fillet in the fish just to turn around and head back out again. My brother-in-law came up and visited on Friday. He was staying in a houseboat near bullfrog Marina. The water temperatures were mid 60s for most of the trip and his daughter‘s got out and swam around a little bit. I ran into Dallas Massey, who had the same idea that I did with leaving the boat behind and trying a kayak trip. I broke the steering cable to my rudder on Saturday night and had to steer with my oar and decided that I’d had enough and packed up and headed out the next morning. It would’ve been fun to stay and fish one more day, but I already had a cooler half full of filleted fish. I didn’t catch as many small mouth as I normally do, but the ones I did catch were as big as I’ve ever caught them. 
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