70 degrees in mid January. I could not stay home. In our county traveling 120 miles or less is permitted for recreation purposes under the current stay-at-home order. I have hit Melones 3X 2021 so far and the month is not over. I intend to get the most use from my fishing license this year. Lake is still looking good despite the drought.

I set up in Angels Cove looking for baitballs that my intel had tipped me off about. I saw them on the meter near the closed Angels Cove launch.

Birds in the area as well But several passes only yielded some nice crappie.

We were met by recently retired friends Debbi and Mark who had a certain post retirement glow about them. They were socially distancing in their badass Robalo.

We ran way upriver into the canyon

Some action upriver but overall slow.

We ended up in Mormon and caught a few more. Kind of a lazy day but a real stress relief.