CoachPotato
Petty Officer 3rd Class
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The weather and the tides were predicted to be just too good to miss on the Sacramento River near Rio Vista, Ca. I headed for Rio Vista with the C-Dory in tow on Wednesday with plans to fish two days. My friend, Willie, would join me on Day 2.
I pretty much frittered away the day trying to fish shallow areas of the Old Sac near Isleton on Wednesday, and spent much of my time removing weeds and other debris from my leader. It was frustrating and was not productive. The next day's current would be considerably slower and therefore be less "weedy" - or so I hoped.
After breakfast in Rio Vista on Thursday, Willie and I headed about five miles downriver to the Decker Island area to try for sturgeon. We managed to catch a few small stripers - even on eel meant only for sturgeon - but all were tossed back.
A nearby boat caught and released a sturgeon of about 68 inches on Thursday morning, and that encouraged us. But it was not be a sturgeon day for us. We kept at it 'til about 1530, then called it quits. No sturgeon this trip, but fishing still beats working. Working? Willie and I haven't had a job in years - how would we know?!
It was still somewhat weedy, but not as bad as the day before.
Lots of photos from the trip and more blather at my homepage: http://fishwisher.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/959/
Being humbled is good for the soul, they say. And there's always next week...
I pretty much frittered away the day trying to fish shallow areas of the Old Sac near Isleton on Wednesday, and spent much of my time removing weeds and other debris from my leader. It was frustrating and was not productive. The next day's current would be considerably slower and therefore be less "weedy" - or so I hoped.
After breakfast in Rio Vista on Thursday, Willie and I headed about five miles downriver to the Decker Island area to try for sturgeon. We managed to catch a few small stripers - even on eel meant only for sturgeon - but all were tossed back.
A nearby boat caught and released a sturgeon of about 68 inches on Thursday morning, and that encouraged us. But it was not be a sturgeon day for us. We kept at it 'til about 1530, then called it quits. No sturgeon this trip, but fishing still beats working. Working? Willie and I haven't had a job in years - how would we know?!
It was still somewhat weedy, but not as bad as the day before.
Lots of photos from the trip and more blather at my homepage: http://fishwisher.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/959/
Being humbled is good for the soul, they say. And there's always next week...