First fish of 2012 ...

My second trip out in my yak this winter didn't go as well as expected. My sonar unit didn't show depth, stuck at 0.00. (Sigh!) I'm not sure what the problem is, either. I fished Beaver Creek by the dam on March 11, a Sunday afternoon, but didn't have my newly obtained contour map with me, so I had to work off what I could remember, which wasn't much. I tried to go deep, but no bites, so I finally started beating the banks. And, as usual, I got a 2.5-pounder to bite on a Yamamoto red-head double-tail hula grub. Hit it in 3 feet of water, working timber along a shaded shoreline between the coves across from the boat dock that had sun earlier in the day. That kept me on that pattern all the way to the dam. The wind kicked up against me on the sunny side going back to the boat dock, and with the sonar out, I just stroked out. But at least I got my first fish of the year. But not on anything new I've learned or obtained in the off season.