With our time kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River is quickly coming to a close, the underlying story of the season has been the wind. There have been a lot of double digit wind days, that has taken fishing days off the calendar. It’s really tough when the fishing is good and the wind keeps you off the water. We’ve caught some big largemouth bass this season and lost more than a few more big ones, so one can’t complain too much. Unfortunately, this style of fishing and windy conditions don’t go well together. If we were trolling or drifting and casting, it would be a different story.
The desert springtime temperatures are crawling into the 90’s, getting a little hotter every day. When it gets close to 100° we will have to bail. That’s a little too hot for outdoor camping. The early mornings are just about perfect.
If you follow this blog, you may already know that we here at watermanatwork.com like to get out on the water early. Because it’s too dark for the video cameras, that is an almost sure bet we will hook up with the fish of the day. That’s OK because I like to throw in a fill flash shot every now and then for my old friend Sonny Miller.
In two days of serious fishing, we managed to catch a bunch of fish. The first day was a really good day, probably caught about fifteen largemouth bass. There were a couple three pounders, a couple three ouncers and the rest in between. Good kayak fishing action!
Once the sun comes up, it starts to get hot. Doesn’t seem like it on the river, but it is the desert after all. Seems like the fishing slows down in the heat of the day. Not always, but more often than not. If the fishing is good, or you know you won’t be fishing for a few days, you may stick it out because the thing about bass fishing is that you don’t catch anything until you do. You can catch a big bass anywhere, at any time of the day or night.
Fishing conditions will probably be marginal, but it looks like the summer is starting earlier and hotter than last year. That means we may have to settle for half days of fishing or less, but we came here to go fishing and that’s what we are going to do! Check back in a few days.