LOL ... MCG are ya having fun yet??!! :wink: Hey, have you seen this video? http://vimeo.com/2009304 I just picked up a slightly used Native Watercraft Magic 12 and am headed to Sanibel for a week of kayak fishing. Now, I don't know if I'll paddle a mile or so offshore to chase kingfish, but I'll stay inshore and try to hook some tarpon (may have to wade fish the gulfside beaches), snook, red, and trout. 8) Copied from Gaetrez post in the PSU/OSU thread.
Gaterz, really cool video. Good thing I am heading down to Marco Island next Wed. for some coastal/inland fishing myself. Going for a mixed bag as I fished for last winter....snook, reds, jacks, etc. Had a phenomenal trip on a flats boat fishing live pilchers just outside on a sand bar and then just inside around some Mangroves with a good tidal action. If you go 15 miles south of the guys in the video I think that's just about where I'll be.
You better have some lead in your ass to fish for kings from a kayak! And watch out for the 'cudas. They love to take your catch right at the boat. Have fun.
Thanks George. I'll be staying inshore and away from the "pelagics". LOL, the last time I ran offshore to fish for snapper and grouper, we were pretty much "chumming" for cudas and sharks, with about half of the catch landed .... as partials!! MCG - good luck in Marco. Here's the yak
Doc, I was towed in the surf by a tarpon and I was in a 15 foot Key West. I would imagine you could get up to 30 knots with a tarpon pulling you in your kayak. :lol: My father in law, in the same boat mentioned above, hooked a huge tarpon in the "crossroads" ( where the Indian and St.Lucie rivers intersect in Stuart,Fla ). Two hours and about 1/4 mile up river he had the tarpon next to the boat. He couldn't get him in because he was exhausted and he is 79 years old! He estimated the fish at 7' and 200-220lbs.
Nice yak Gaterz....that would be fun. George.....wow.....sounds like a blast. I have fished that area and saw em rolling but nary a hook-up.
I was pulling this one in by the wire lead in my gloved hand right on the starboard side of the boat when this rush of motion came from under the boat and this is what I had left. About two miles off Hobe Sound beach ...
A few years ago I was video taping my son bringing in a King and I was focused on the water when a silver flash made a rush at the fish and.....up comes half a fish just like in your picture. Cuda's have such sharp teeth all it took was one swift bite. Good thing they don't attack humans or you could never go in the water.