Kayak trips & fishing reports 2009

[RocksandReds]

Great report Rich!! I'm getting the itch even more.

[DarkSkies]

*Ill write the report later, more detail.

Jbay today, 9am - 4pm. Wanted to avoid the boat traffic where everyone was fishing the usual hyped up area. Set out at a different launch, met up with another kayaker about 1 1/2 miles from the launch (lucky for me! )

He knew that water, and we fished it together for awhile until he had to leave. He got 2 bass, 6 bluefish using chartreuse shads.

I got one bass 27", and one bluefish, on a pink fin-s.

There was either a grass shrimp hatch or there were small spearing/baitfish in the flats areas. There were also pods of bunker moving through periodically. One pod, in the thousands, was alike a wall of moving water. They moved too fast and I couldn't keep up. So we focused our attention on the sporadically working birds and the small bait.

After he left, I pulled onto a sedgebank to take a leak. I picked that one because it had current moving past it. Before pushing off again, I decided to work the water with an Ace baits medic super spook. From the 2nd cast on, I was into fish for the next 3 hours of the outgoing until slack tide.

Total for that pit stop, one bass around 26", 35-40 bluefish landed 7-13lbs, and at least twice that many strikes that didn't result in hookups. I had a blast fighting those angry fat bluefish, really enjoyed myself!















around 12#, bleeding all over, had to kill this one

[DarkSkies]

5/9 pics


sedges, as the tide went out, I had to wade out farther and farther to get into fish. You can see the kayak actual distance at the top right of the pic, orange blur. By the time of slack tide, I was prob another 100' out further than this.


Here you can see the kayak sitting up on the sedges, this pic was taken at 5x magnified.



deeeeeeeeep mud!

[DarkSkies]

5/9 more pics


This is me doin a little quality control of the Ace Baits Medic super spook! Doesn't look bad after an afternoon of 35-40 bluefish 7-13#. I had a blast! Took some video, but may not put it up because there was so much profanity in it. I have to learn how to behave better when the camera is runnin.





Most other plugs would have wood gouged out after catching so many fish! Phil Griffith from Ace baits uses a special hardened epoxy for his plugs. They fish like wood, but hold up like strong plastic. I was very happy with the results.



one of the larger bluefish, around 12#

[WURK2FISH]

Can't see 'da pics

[storminsteve]

So you go out in your kayak, to catch fish from the shore? Interesting. Nice report and pics, Dark, they just keep whetting my appetite to get one.

[dogfish]

So you go out in your kayak, to catch fish from the shore? Interesting.

What he said, are you a kayaker or a shore fisherman?