Kayak trips & fishing reports 2009

[RocksandReds]

W2F where did you get your kayak light from? I like that set up!!

[strikezone31]

wurk2fish - congrat's on your first season keeper. Your kayak setup is awesome.

[surfwalker]

Dark, w2f- Thanks for the reports/pics. They are looked forward to by me, having never tried this type of fishing. Please keep them coming. Looks like fun.

[WURK2FISH]

Dark, w2f- Thanks for the reports/pics. They are looked forward to by me, having never tried this type of fishing. Please keep them coming. Looks like fun.

Your welcome....hopefully another good report from this coming weekend!!!

[crosseyedbass]

The detail you guys described these trips makes me feel as if I was on the kayak myself.

[DarkSkies]

I'm gonna try this format for this kayak section to make it easier to review as part of my logbook. You other guys can throw it down however ya want, this is something I thought would make it easier for me, that's all.


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Date Fished:
Time fished:
Tide Stage:
Weather:
Surf Conditions:
General Location:
Fishing Method:
Type of lure/fly:
Water Temp:
fish caught/size:
Report:











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Date Fished: 5/4/09
Time fished: 12-6am
Tide Stage: Outgoing and incoming
Weather: Rainy, Windy
Surf Conditions: 1- 1 1/2 feet swells, low duration
Fishing by: Kayak
General Location: Jamaica Bay
Fishing Method: Live bunker, clams, and topwater poppers
Type of lure/fly: poppers and Ace Bait bunker profile swimmer
Water Temp: maybe mid 50's
fish caught: 5 bluefish
size: 2-8#
Report:





Jamaica bay last night 12-6am. , I was the only idiot out there in the rain and the wind in that area. I anchored in a piece of open water, but was worried the waves and wind would capsize the kayak.

Stayed at an area of structure for 1 1/2 hours, fishing bunker and clams, nothing, then back to channels where I got 5 bluefish on bunker chunks.

The most pods of bunker were in a harbor. They were there all night with fish on them. However, I feel the fish that were harassing them were bluefish. Last week I saw bunker jump a foot or 2 out of the water when there were no bluefish around, so I'm assuming bigger bass last week.

Last night, the profilles of the predators running through the schools seemed smaller, so that's why I'm assuming only bluefish. You can never tell if there is at least one big bass underneath them though.

I paddled out to some structure, and there were no bunker there at first. They came after an hour, around 330am, before high tide, but they were scattered. The wind and waves made it tough to snag them, so I went back into the harbor. The bunker were concentrated in the main channel.

However, snagging and dropping there did nothing except get the bunker chopped up by bluefish. So I chunked with one rod, and fished plugs with another. Nothing on the plugs, 5 bluefish on the chunk.

[WURK2FISH]

wurk2fish - congrat's on your first season keeper. Your kayak setup is awesome.

Thanks StrikeZone!!! Looking forward to this weekend

[WURK2FISH]

W2F where did you get your kayak light from? I like that set up!!

Kayak fishing Stuff

[Tommy]

Hi Rich, nice write up. Nice kayak , and like your set up. Hopefully one of these days I ll get one.So I can learn from the best.Keep up the good work.

[DarkSkies]

Tommy, appreciate the kind words, but I'm just a goog with a white bucket and a paddle. The only thing I'm "best" at is screwing up! And I do actually catch a nice fish, once in a while.

If I know you, after looking at these pics for a week, you'll decide it's time for a kayak, and will have one by the end of May. Waiting for you to tell me ya couldn't take it anymore and went out and got one.

[WURK2FISH]

Great "Report" Rich.......you're a Brave Man out there in that mess!!! Keep the "Reports" comin'

[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!