{"id":5513,"date":"2018-12-19T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:26:11","slug":"kayak-fishing-for-largemouth-bass-on-the-colorado-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/kayak-fishing-for-largemouth-bass-on-the-colorado-river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayak Fishing for Largemouth Bass on the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are back in the Arizona desert to do some kayak fishing. Mostly, we are after largemouth bass, but there are plenty of other fish here as well. We have gotten off to a somewhat slow start because I was injured in a serious accident on the way down here and I am still nowhere near 100%. I am getting out there as much as possible, but lots of recovery and rehab still ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fishing here in the Colorado River watershed has been kind of slow. The water levels in the reservoirs, lakes and rivers has been changing often and with dramatic rises and falls in water levels, sometimes as much as five or six feet in a few days. Just like the smallmouth bass on the Columbia River, when there dramatic water level changes, and the fish are inactive for a day or two. We&#8217;ve managed to scrape out a fish or two mostly every day and caught a couple nice fish, so it hasn&#8217;t been a complete skunkfest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JumpingCORiverBass_1.gif\" alt=\"Colorado River largemouth bass caught by watermanatwork.com kayak fisherman Ron Barbish\" title=\"Colorado River largemouth bass caught by watermanatwork.com kayak fisherman Ron Barbish\" class=\"wp-image-5514\"><\/figure><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We are hoping to get out fishing more as I recover from my injuries so keep checking back because the winter fishing season here in the desert is just getting started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back in the Arizona desert to do some kayak fishing. 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