[Jason_B]

Another great day. Nice bumping into you out there.

[Jason_B]

Hopefully you brought a small cooler and saved some for the rest of us.

[Jason_B]

“With that said, I bet the aforementioned “rip” is going to lay along the tidal highway from Spots 1 to 10.“

I see that too based on historical GED imagery. But I wonder if a strong SE wind and in coming tide might push that rip north? Regardless, observe and adjust north or south is my plan.

[Jason_B]

My work laptop has windows 10 with chrome as the default browser.

Completely unrelated, I primarily access this site via chrome on windows 10 and have had no issues.

I may or may not have questioned my direct supervisor on if he is a member here before making this post.

[Jason_B]

Oh, hey, random suggestion for you on your adventures. See if you can stop by a pool supply store and get a pool thermometer to tie on a string and toss over the side of your kayak. Since you’re into recording your trips that will be an easy data point for you to gather so we can geek out a little more.

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[Jason_B]

Best of luck sir. I bet the agility of a kayak will eliminate some of the struggles that boaters have out there. You’ll be able to switch sides if the tide changes and can get right on top of a snag to try to get un-hung.

[Jason_B]

I might need to thank you for scaring her over towards me.

[Jason_B]

Need you to go ahead and go back tomorrow so we can follow you around and pickup all your scraps. If you see a boat with an ugly dude, a kid and a dog trailing you then we’re not trying to kill you we’re just trying to bask in your greatness.

[Jason_B]

“And find that rip and fish just north of it. Get just outside of it in water that’s barely green and that will get you a lot closer to getting on the fish.”

I think I understand PLH strategy a lot better after reading this put so plainly. I’ll develop my next time plan off of this, whenever that will be. Hopefully soon.

[Jason_B]

Looking forward to it. I didn’t sign up looking to teach you how to fish.

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[Jason_B]

I eyeballed the route into my garmin from the images you posted. Took the turn going from E to NE a little too much on the inside, almost exactly where your yellow route is and that’s where I missed. Margin of error there is small, which also means I didn’t have to push it too far to get floating again. It wasn’t a huge ordeal, the dog enjoyed it.

[Jason_B]

Noted and monitoring.

But now I’ve got to wet a hook there just to make sure you’re wrong.

[Jason_B]

When I’ve done this out of a jon boat I never got too scientific and just let it float. Most boaters with fancy chartplotters measure it at their transducers ~2′ below the surface. If the water is moving and not pea soup then a floating thermometer would read the same as one 2′ below the surface. Fish are most definitely at a different temp than what we measure at the surface in lakes – if you’ve ever swam in one you know. But if you’re measuring in the upper 2′ like everyone else then that should put us all on the same datum.

You can tape a rock to it to make sure the sun isn’t baking it but I otherwise wouldn’t worry about exact depth.

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[Jason_B]

Solid advice as always. Hoping for no schedule surprises so I can report back early next week.

[Jason_B]

I guess with your suggestion I’d skip the northernmost 3 spots given the half-day constraint?

I was never going to realistically wet a hook at all of these but like the idea of having more marked than I may get to. In my mind, if the southernmost spot I fish coming from hopedale is four horse then I will be content to explore the rest later.

Unless you’re saying ditch the stuff around hopedale in favor of the oak river spots in which case I’ll look into Beshels.

Edit: I’ve split my .kml files into separate Hopedale and PLH plans. The Hopedale plan only gets down to four horse whereas the PLH plan does the circular route of spots 5 thru 15. For the PLH plan, the launch would be Beschels with the route from there to Wreck Bay being the same one suggested by Devin in Germy’s planning post here: Point A La Hache 2/6/26 – LAFB Elite. In Germy’s report, seems he didn’t run into trouble until after getting through this spot and heading much further East than I plan on going.

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