What's your game plan for May?

I'm just waiting for my local river to open. Opens Saturday, May 28th, which is 26 days not like I'm counting or anything :ROFLMAO:. Also trying to go carp fishing for the first time!
 
Heading to BC...a couple of times! I'll try some Billy flies up there...:)
 
Tiger hunting for me. maybe another smallie outing thrown in there.
 
I'll fish for springers, then switch to spring chinook, and finally for chinook salmon that come back in the spring...

Will start with gear/bait and once I have a reasonable supply in the freezer (fingers crossed), will switch to doing some fly fishing for them.
 
Between Mothers Day and Memorial Day I’ll be hosting the Spring Fling at the ranch again. As usual we’ll fish local lakes around Oroville. Sidley and Molson were disappointing a few weeks ago so we may skip them. Aeneas is always on the list and Blue north of Wannacutt. Lost and Little Beaver can be hit or miss but we’ll probably try both. Spectacle was stocked with tigers and we’ll see if we can find a few.
Food and drink followed by great conversations and I’ll nod off in my recliner while others keep chatting. Some things never change…
 
Matt B said:
I still have never fished for shad.
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June, first week July, that is the bast time to target shad.
As for plans, I'll keep playing around the little lakes for 26 more days, then the real fishing fun begins.
 
NFR but I have a 1 month sabbatical from work so we’re going to Mexico for the month. Hoping to try to see if I can get a day on the water off the Oaxacan coast, but this is a family trip. Lots of fishing planned for June though.
 
Nothing of now but since I live so close to Lake Washington and recently seeing Billy Badass Bassmaster’s photo portfolio and that big ass grin has me thinking of targeting some, get the 7 weight set up for it and give it a go some weekday. Then there’s the Salty Beach endeavors too.
 
Roper said:
Between Mothers Day and Memorial Day I’ll be hosting the Spring Fling at the ranch again. As usual we’ll fish local lakes around Oroville. Sidley and Molson were disappointing a few weeks ago so we may skip them. Aeneas is always on the list and Blue north of Wannacutt. Lost and Little Beaver can be hit or miss but we’ll probably try both. Spectacle was stocked with tigers and we’ll see if we can find a few.
Food and drink followed by great conversations and I’ll nod off in my recliner while others keep chatting. Some things never change…
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If you nod off and someone draws on your face with a Sharpie it wasn't me
 
I'll be a swinger for Springers, and whenever the river is out or I don't have the time to get there, itll be all bass. Most years may is all bass all day, but a recent local lower river is open for the month, for the first time that I can recall.

I've found june to be a lot like Sept-Oct. Opportunity everywhere, choosing what to do can be difficult. Now May Is gonna be that way too. Oh woe is me, whatever shall I do???
 
According to AA fishing board the Sky opens 5/28. Not sure I’ll go that day 😬
But soon after, and for casting practice only since that is what is has mainly become. 😞
 
Hopefully going on a 2 day trip for my wife to look for Sunstones in Plush and me to fish a little stream down there that people that know, know. I have wanted to explore SE Oregon since I was a teenager and I'm 36 now so better get on it. We own our own business and have 2 young kids(4 and 6) so doing anything is impossible and we usually work 7 days a week. This would be our first trip without kids in those 6 years, we never even took a honeymoon, going to make it happen.
 
Staying local.
Got lots of stuff that needs to be done at home. I’m trying to spend and hour or two each day after work to help free up some time. Weather like today certainly isn’t helping with the outside portion of the projects.
SF
 
"Game" plans for May? Quite a bit, actually -
My wife and I are heading to Hamilton, MT to see some friends and then over Idaho 12 and down the Lochsa River exploring parts of Idaho we've never seen, this will coincide with our 50th wedding anniversary (no - I won't go fishing). But then, this isn't what the OP had in mind, I don't think, perhaps more like this:
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Damn covid kept us from getting up to British Columbia for two years. This year we're back! Milehighresort.com is where we stay, it's our staging for access to a number of lakes we've grown to love over the years. Most of the drives take an hour or more from the cabin to the lake, once lakeside, there's a lot of effort put into getting three prams unloaded and all our gear readied for the day. That's some old guy strapping his pram to the top of Herb's truck. We sort of have it down to a step-by-step sequence anymore.

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It's always nice up in the highlands just south of Kamloops, no rain, no snow, no hail, no wind, no mosquitoes. Herb hooked up to a nice rainbow on one of my favorite BC lakes.

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Keith netting a rainbow on another one of my favorite BC lakes.

Herb, Keith and I have been fishing together since the early 1980's. What a way to spend two weeks! Fishing with two great guys, eating good food, exploring beautiful British Columbia and then there's the trout!
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May's not enough, going to spill over into June.
 
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