{"id":7821,"date":"2024-04-29T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2024-04-29T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:49:35","slug":"last-call-for-great-kayak-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watermanatwork.com\/blog\/last-call-for-great-kayak-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Call for Great Kayak Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We’ve had some epic days of fishing lately, but it’s last call for great kayak fishing for largemouth bass on the Colorado River. We’ve done more kayak fishing and caught more fish in the past month than we have in the previous five. It has been a terrible fishing season. Due to the ever increasing desert wind and the used to the max Colorado River environment, there has hardly been any fishing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fishermen are an optimistic bunch, all we can say is that there have been some great days of kayak fishing in the past few weeks. I wish the fishing could be like this every day, but that’s not the way it works. Nature always runs the show and you take what you can get. It’s the last day of kayak fishing for this winter season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paddling upstream for the last time, the full moon making it nearly light as day, we were hoping for one last good day of fishing. The mosquitoes were there to greet us, but on the last day of fishing, one of the first casts of the morning, it all came together.<\/p>\n\n\n
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I’ve had pretty good luck with the “one last cast” routine here and my luck was holding. This Colorado River largemouth bass was one of the biggest of the entire season.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Stoked to know the last day of fishing would be a complete success no matter what happened from here, I paddled a short distance and on the next cast\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n
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Another nice Colorado River largemouth bass.<\/p>\n\n\n
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For truth in kayak fishing blogging, I do not catch a big largemouth bass on every cast. There are days when I feel fortunate to catch one or two fish. Largemouth bass here are big game freshwater fish. It’s getting harder to catch the big ones and there aren’t many small ones. Like most big game fishing, you get the big one or you get nothing. Largemouth bass have an amazing and frustrating ability to spit fishing hooks.<\/p>\n\n\n
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The fishing here is challenging but probably has some of the biggest largemouth bass in the area. It’s a good setup for a kayak. I believe the lack of a motor and nothing sticking down into the water is a real advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n
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One more nice largemouth bass with the desert wind quickly increasing and that’s the end of the kayak fishing season.<\/p>\n\n\n
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As I loaded the kayak, which seems to get heavier every year, onto the roof racks of the truck, I couldn’t help but wonder what the future will bring.<\/p>\n\n\n
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We hope this is not the last kayak fishing trip here. There are issues on many levels at this point, I just hope fishermen will always have a place to go fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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