Posted By: jagg
Wifey and I on the SA Mission Paddling Trail - 08/15/17 09:15 PM
The wife and I finally got the chance to take the new yak on a river trip. We decided on doing the top part of the Mission Paddling Trail of the SA River. We launched at Roosevelt Park and took out at Espada Dam. It was a good time and sometimes a hard paddle and/or drag, but definitely worth it. We started off with Crickhoppers but, only got a few biters and no takers. Later, when we found a large, shallow rock and gravel flat, we switched to LFT baby shads on 1/16 Kalin jigheads and we started catching Rios and Guad/Smallie hybrids, but the still missing as many as we caught. I switched to a tiny 1" craw soft plastic that I had picked up in Wal-Mart years ago and started landing many more fish including longears. On this same flat, my wife caught the biggest tilapia I've ever seen! She was so proud and she said that fish made her day! We moved off the flat and paddled more down river since wifey wanted to catch some bass. In the middle of the Trail we found deeper holes and caught Guad/Smallie hybrids hand over fist. The biggest being 15" and all of two lbs. I tried some smaller, tried and true sunfish tackle, but the black bass wouldn't lay off, so I decided to switch back to bass gear and go with the flow. All in all, we only caught one longear, but did catch a huge tilapia, a handful of Rios, and more bass than we could count. Great day for us, especially since we rarely get to go out together!
Here are a few pics:
Here are a few pics: