This week I took off Thursday to go fishing. Got up late and hung out had breakfast seen Parker off to work and did a couple things. Took off with my tube and gear in the truck with really no specific area in mind, just started driving south. Went past SF turn off and kept going thought about Palisades and then looked to the East seen Payson Canyon. It had been a while since I ventured up that canyon. By the time I made the decision to go there I missed the first exit and went to the 2nd. Traveled up the canyon heading for Payson Lakes. Arrived around 11 am and got ready to go in the upper lake and talked to a couple locals up there and they talked me into going back down to the lower lake, good choice and advice. Got in the water and started with a Kastmaster with orange highlights and 2nd cast caught the first of what turned out to be many that afternoon. Nothing large mainly planters, kept none took a couple pics (just to prove i caught something, you know the rule no pic, no fish...lol). Stayed on the water for few hours and then got hungry and the fish turned off, changed up lures a few times and got nothing so I headed in. The girls camped showed and had lines in all over the lake, it was fun watching them catch their first fish of their lives!
Got up this morning and headed for Rockport Res. Parker and I got to the lake about 7:30 and had lines in by 8am had our first hit by 8:15 it was hit after hit but couldn't get them to hook up or they would and then the jumping bows would throw the hook. It was fun fighting them and watching them jump. We finally ended up boating 2 decent bows in the cooler. Fished until noon, and then it was like fighting gale wind forces with all the wake action from all the boats on the water so we headed in. We headed home after cleaning them, and stopped off in Oakley to eat at the Road Island Diner not bad, but go for something other than just burgers. We had burgers and they were okay but better choices on the menu for sure. The fish grilled up nicely this evening!
