Just get up and go.

[JoeBeck]

I saw this place mentioned in a post late last year, did some research and it sounded like a good place to take a weekend trip. A short drive from San Diego, a primitive campsite right on the Colorado river, good fishing, I was eager to check it out. Shiloh and I had planned on spending new years here but weather dictated otherwise, we then planned on presidents day but again had to cancel because of rain. This Thursday Shiloh said it would be fun to go fishing this weekend. I couldn't agree more and had already been planning to fish LJ myself. Now that I knew she wanted to fish, I figured hell lets pack up and go on a trip, this place has been on my mind, I checked the weather and it was on. We packed up the pickup and headed out Friday afternoon. It's funny, sometimes it's best not to plan, just get an idea and go.

part of the road out there



I thought this place was going to be primitive camping It turns out the campsite was not primitive at all, it had two tables, canopy and a bathroom. The only thing primitive about it is there was no drinking water which we had planned for and brought our own.



Shiloh's brother joined us Friday night and Saturday morning so I brought the extra yak




Fish in this area include Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Channel and Flathead catfish and bluegill. We fished for Bass during light and catfish during dark.



Fishing was a little bit slow but we finally figured out what they were biting on catching a handful of small largemouth bass. No striped bass. Tried a lot of different artificial baits, the dropshot worked the best. I was hoping to get some top water action but it just has not warmed enough yet.



Catfish were easy to catch, a fish about every 15 minutes, all micro size though, not one good one. Still fun




Shiloh got a baby flathead, if you don't know about flathead cats, look it up, they get huge! Last week the ranger said a 45 pounder was caught, don't tell the locals I wrote this, no fish in La Jolla


After sitting in the dark, playing with chicken liver and warms, drinking cold beverages, you have to finish the evening big before waking up and doing it all over again.


We had good weather, between 80 and 85 degrees on and off wind until it started blowing pretty good around 12:30 today.



This was an amazing place to paddle a Kayak, we discovered that there were passage ways that navigated through the different sections of the inlets, reminded me a lot of the paddling we did in Texas.










Like I wrote earlier all small fish, Shiloh got the jackpot with this one. Not bad for a girl who is going to have a baby in just about 4 weeks, no big WSB or YT but certainly a trip to remember and a fishery I'll continue to explore