you fishing this holiday weekend?

[Darth-Baiter]

I'm goggling weather at some of my smaller lakes/locations.  avoiding the big venues due to boat traffic.   I had a water skier buzz me and my kayak last weekend.  (okay - 50 yards? not exactly a buzzy)

 

you?  people go nuts for lakes this weekend around here.

[Jig Man]

Nope.  I don’t like crowds or idiots and there will be lots of both.

[gim]

Luckily hasn't been very warm here for an extended period of time yet, so recreational traffic has been lighter than usual so far.  I might go on Monday morning early close to home for a few hours.  Really will be dependent on the weather and there is a chance of rain/isolated t-storms here through the weekend which might keep some people off the lake.

[Mobasser]

If I fish this weekend, it will be very early in the morning( sunup) for an hour or two. I'll go home before the party crowd shows up.

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Tournament Sat, 3-dark on the River. So yeah I'll be fighting crowds and pressured waters. 

[Bankc]

Nope.  30mph winds whisper "stay home, dingus".  
 

Well, maybe nope.  There's a small river near me that's surrounded by trees and we've had several inches of rain this week, so the river is likely to finally be navigable from a kayak, unlike most of the year when it's just a dry trickle.  It'll probably be crazy crowded and parking may be neigh impossible.  But it's probably my only option, should I choose to exercise it.  

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55 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

you fishing this holiday weekend?

No.

[MN Fisher]

Never go on any weekend - the crazies are on the water then.

 

Plus I still have work to do on the F-9 before it's ready to get wet.

[BassNJake]

I'm going, hopefully all 3 days.

Some other idiot isn't keeping this idiot off the water.

Plus, I'll go b4 sun rise and be off before most shake last nights hangover

 

[TnRiver46]

I’ll be fishing! 

[Sphynx]

I doubt it, weather is promising to make it an indoor event, probably guitar and baseball. If I DO get to get out, it'll probably be to either the Clack or the Sandy with a fly rod, the intolerable prices of salmon/steelhead licenses makes it an imperative that I get my fill of them both on the line and in the freezer. I can take along a popper and a few buggers though and just might end up with a smallmouth or two on the line. 

[Darth-Baiter]

there is a lake not so nearby that requires a truck with ground clearance to get to.  rainy days require 4x4.  very few boat owners have the stones to take a big boat up there.  but they do, and the boats are ironically HUGE!  but few.

 

I might go there!!  see if I can find a buddy to put his kayak in my truck and we split fuel.

[BrianMDTX]

Yep. I’ll be out on the pond a day or two. The only water skiers I may have to deal with are these!

 

 

[Darth-Baiter]

whoa whoa whoaaaaaa!  this is a family forum!!  

[Bluebasser86]

25+mph winds Sat-Mon, 8 hours of OT between working 10pm-2am Friday into Saturday and 6-10pm Saturday night, and a dislike for idiots should keep me away from the water, but it probably won't. 

[Captain Phil]

[TnRiver46]

23 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

25+mph winds Sat-Mon, 8 hours of OT between working 10pm-2am Friday into Saturday and 6-10pm Saturday night, and a dislike for idiots should keep me away from the water, but it probably won't. 

That’s the spirit 

[Trox]

There is only one thing that can ruin the enjoyment of fishing for me and that is trying to fish while pleasure boats and jetskis buzz by me less than 50ft away all day... 

 

Hell, it wasn't even Momorial day weekend a couple of weekends ago when I was spot locked on a spot when a pontoon boat with 20 or so people on it was heading right for me... I had to wave and jump on my boat to get their attention and was 100% prepared to jump ship... Luckily, they turned about 4-5 seconds before I would of had to jump off... and that was with limited boat traffic...

 

Memorial Day weekend? no thanks....

[gim]

3 minutes ago, TroxBox said:

There is only one thing that can ruin the enjoyment of fishing for me and that attempting to fish from my trolling motor while pleasure boats and jetskis buzz by me less than 50ft away all day... no thanks...

That's what ruins if for me too.  The water really isn't warm enough here yet for that though.  That and the potential for long lines full of amateurs at the access.

 

I used to despise the jet skis but nowadays its almost exclusively the wake boats that stick in my craw.  Pontoons don't really bother me.  They just putz around the lake anyways.

 

One thing that will keep riff raff off the lake on a weekend or even during a major holiday is the weather.  Rain is my best friend.  Let it come.

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, TroxBox said:

There is only one thing that can ruin the enjoyment of fishing for me and that is trying to fish while pleasure boats and jetskis buzz by me less than 50ft away all day... 

 

Hell, it wasn't even Momorial day weekend a couple of weekends ago when I was spot locked on a spot when a pontoon boat with 20 or so people on it was heading right for me... I had to wave and jump on my boat to get their attention and was 100% prepared to jump ship... Luckily, they turned about 4-5 seconds before I would of had to jump off... and that was with limited boat traffic...

 

Memorial Day weekend? no thanks....

That happens here on weekdays in December baha

[Bankc]

1 hour ago, Darth-Baiter said:

there is a lake not so nearby that requires a truck with ground clearance to get to.  rainy days require 4x4.  very few boat owners have the stones to take a big boat up there.  but they do, and the boats are ironically HUGE!  but few.

 

I might go there!!  see if I can find a buddy to put his kayak in my truck and we split fuel.

That's kind of along the line of what I usually do for holiday weekends.  Weather permitting (which it probably isn't this year), I usually go to one of the junk lakes that everyone avoids.  The fishing is never as good, but being in a kayak, I don't have to deal with all of the drunks on party boats, jet skis, and wake boats trying to run me over.  You have to keep your head on swivel those days, and you really can't afford to focus on fishing, but rather just staying alive.  

[Chris Catignani]

I remember one Memorial Day weekend. I put in at Fate Sanders Marina on Percy Priest Lake.

I look out on the lake and it was a total freakin mad house of boats.

So I thought ...I'll just go into the back of the cove. (Fate Sanders is in a cove).

I ended up catching about 30 bass that day...

BUT...I was standing on the shoulders of giants that day.

It was the 1972 Bass Masters Classic that Don Butler won.

He was fishing his spinner bait called the Small Okiebug...in the back of Fate Sanders Cove.

BASS MASTERS CLASSICS 1 TO 10

[roadwarrior]

Not me...

[the reel ess]

Either Saturday or Monday morning, maybe both. Where I go there might be one other boat there and he's a buddy.

[Gera]

No wake lake on a kayak helps reduce the number of dumb people on the water.