I have a nifty folding kayak, and a nifty rubber suit to keep me from dying from hypothermia. I don’t mention the second bit without reason; I’ve tried this in the spring and every time, it’s been a very refreshing doggie paddle back to shore dragging my kayak behind me.
Anyways, in the harbors of the “Great Lake” I am fishing, it’s a common way in December to catch giant brown trout. I’d like to find a better way which doesn’t involve a car, or storing a rigid kayak in my closet. A lot of parameters to juggle here.
You’ll love the guys who are good at this, though. They know what they are doing, and have much more expensive kayaks they use:
I just dunno about it. The “Big Pond” as they call it has a reputation for rapidly changing weather in the best of times. Sure as hell looks awesome, though.
I know exactly where you are. Harbors and Browns gave it away! Needing a folding or inflatable definitely ratchets up the logistics and cost of the appropriate kayak. I would not kayak fish in cold weather without a kayak that I could just climb right back on even though I have an excellent Eskimo Roll. I have a friend who fishes off a Hobie inflatable paddle board with the pedal drive. Heres one of his videos
There’s some other inflatable options out there too.
There’s at least 2 metro areas which this describes. Possibly 3–I haven’t looked into Traverse City fishing at all.
Yeah, I managed to install outriggers, but how they have performed in warm weather doesn’t instill confidence in that my rig is foolproof enough. In theory I should be able to just climb right back in now, but I’d feel better if I lost a little weight first, to swing the buoyancy more in my favor.
I did not know these existed! The guys who do well in winter have fixed hulled Hobies with the pedal drive. I am gonna have to check this out.
I love a good canoe too, but i fish often rough & cold salt water conditions where hypothermia is a real possibility if you end up in the drink even in a drysuit. This means for me I have to have an unsinkable sit-on-top style boat that I can climb back aboard. I also have a waterproof floating VHF radio.
Well to be fair I had given two weeks notice already for the manager balking at being able to telecommute after being on site for 3 months and getting it in writing before taking this job.
So after 3 months of here get this complicated process done tomorrow with no training or documentation and I was told that my change record was good to go so I pushed out files to protect against the latest ransomware fun. Well nobody fixed the change to get out of draft much less approved.
Back to the job search full time.
ETA the account is a mess of the customer wanting everything to be a priority and we never had enough hours to get it all done and their windows domain is broken beyond repair because hey lets block the port DC’s use for replication till everything starts breaking and the new guy who got here after the fact notices things.
close enough… between that and the fact that there is fuck all to do but go to the bar or the casino locally and the locals attitude of unless you have been here 7 generations we want nothing to do with you… I know why the guy previous to me bailed before showing up and the guy who I am replacing left. Oh look a better gig not in armpit Iowa.
ETA I will say the town is pretty but there really is fuck all to do unless you like drinking and/or gambling.
Iowa does suck, except for the Bettendorf area. I guess Dubuque too. The rest of it is sort of armpit BFE with maybe a casino nearby. Mostly, Iowa is a place I like to drive past on my way to other places.
That is where I type from currently. It would be nice for a weekend visit and they have a commie hockey team (USHL teams are owned by the hosting city) but if it wasn’t for ebooks from the home library system in Seattle and rerun tv channels I would have been done a month ago.
Ahhh, OK. I can recommend a short hop over to Galena on the weekend. Lovely town to bum around when it’s sunny. Lots of historic stuff, neat shops, B&B’s, etc. I personally like the shop with a huge variety of hot sauces, organized by scoville ratings. (I forget the name of the shop, but they go up into the millions of units)
Galena/Dubuque also has skiing when it gets colder if that’s your thing. And of course, if you are fishing inclined, you can get into many fine fish in the Mississippi river.
And yes, drinking and gambling. Since you’re also at the WI border, I can recommend hopping across to track down some Spotted Cow (from New Glarus brewing). It’s a WI specialty that’s hard to track down, and fantastic.
They rushed me out here so I am sans car. I am like half a mile from the office though. I realized a month ago if I had a car I would be in Chicago every goddamn weekend. The only nice spot I found was a wine bar at the old brewery building. $4 drinks, no tvs and music you don’t have talk loud over and they make a nice if a bit sweet cider.
This all explains the brain drain and blue flight away to the “real” cities of anyone who has anything going on between their ears. This is the divide of our country.
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Possibly 3–I haven’t looked into Traverse City fishing at all.