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As others have noted, the tides were extremely high this past weekend.. plus it was also pretty windy, and water clarify kind of sucked. But still managed to catch a few trout each morning on Trout Support Lures bone diamond, Texas roach and plumtreuse colors. Caught, photographed and released my first good sow trout of the fall on Texas roach color. She was 24.5" and weighed about 5 lbs per my Boga grip scale. A couple of weekends ago plumtreuse color was hot. I am looking forward to the next couple of months and hoping for some more big trout action to share.
I also had a chance to try out my new "jury rigged" hands free selfy stick on the kayak which worked pretty well based on how this photo turned out. I personally don't like to keep big trout, as I would prefer to let them help add to the future population. At the same time, in the past I was a bit torn with still wanting a photo... which can be difficult if you are fishing solo. I came of with this design after trying a couple others, which is basically just a removable rod holder with appropriate sized PVC, attached to a RAM mount for my phone. This allows me to relatively quickly pop the removable rod holder with selfie stick into place while I keep the trout in the net in the water next to the kayak. I can then attach my phone to the RAM grip, set the 10 second self timer, and boom.. got me a photo or two to capture the moment. The trout end up only being out of the water for a very short period of time and revive quickly. Just thought I would share in case there are other kayakers who have thought about this.
I also had a chance to try out my new "jury rigged" hands free selfy stick on the kayak which worked pretty well based on how this photo turned out. I personally don't like to keep big trout, as I would prefer to let them help add to the future population. At the same time, in the past I was a bit torn with still wanting a photo... which can be difficult if you are fishing solo. I came of with this design after trying a couple others, which is basically just a removable rod holder with appropriate sized PVC, attached to a RAM mount for my phone. This allows me to relatively quickly pop the removable rod holder with selfie stick into place while I keep the trout in the net in the water next to the kayak. I can then attach my phone to the RAM grip, set the 10 second self timer, and boom.. got me a photo or two to capture the moment. The trout end up only being out of the water for a very short period of time and revive quickly. Just thought I would share in case there are other kayakers who have thought about this.
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