Even with hot weather and tough fishing conditions on the lower Colorado River, we managed to get in a few good kayak fishing sessions. It’s been very hot here in the desert southwest. Nearly 100°F almost every day, 75° at night. This is after a summer where it was over 110° every day for more than a month.
The water levels of the lower Colorado River are, once again, about as low as they can go. Almost all the river water is siphoned off by the time it gets here. In many places, you can walk across the mighty Colorado River. In the photo below, the kayak is beached at a spot that is normally four feet or more underwater.
Of course, there is always the desert wind that pretty much determines when, and where, we go kayak fishing. The fish are not biting at night, so that leaves from about sunrise to around late morning when the wind quickly picks up.
We had to do a lot of looking around because the fishing has not been that good at the “brand name” spots. When the fish aren’t biting at the places you normally would expect them to, you have to look where you don’t expect to find them.
There was a bit of a change in the desert landscape as a few clouds came drifting through.
A few clouds had no effect on the blazing desert heat and didn’t have any effect on the fishing, which has been pretty tough. We managed to pick off a few here and there before the wind and heat put an end to the kayak fishing day.
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Nothing before sunrise, a couple small fish just as it was getting light, and then I hit the jackpot.
A couple jumps later, this nice bass was in the kayak. The fishing has been tough, a nice fish like this is well appreciated.
We had hoped to make it three days in a row but the desert wind had different plans. We’ll be back out there at the earliest opportunity, so check back soon.