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BullHound wrote:Be glad you weren't holding that one up a little higher for the camera!!

Yea Bull--dang glad--except I wasn't holding it at all--it was holding me! Took about 5 min to pry that sucker loose so we could release it.

Gorgeous day today. First time out in many months with Captain Doc. Mainly drift fishing using live pinfish and some arties. Stopped about half way out of Lanark to stock up on live pinfish, and then began the search for Spanish, shark, and whatever else might be so inclined. Most fun was with 4 ...

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Hey DT,
Thanks--don't know why the link got corrupted only on this site--gremlins, I guess!

As some of you know, I have been a big fan of carrying a reliable point and shoot UW (underwater) camera when yaking. I am especially a fan of these cameras if they can focus down to 1 cm or so for getting great close-ups of DIY parts or fixes, or marine critters of all kinds and sizes. Even though ...

Check out the article beginning on page 98 of the latest issue (Aug., 2009) of Southern Living . It is about one of my fav Florida places--Spring Creek Restaurant, just 30 miles south of Tally at the end of County Road 365. The article even includes 8 recipes about preparing several of your favorite ...

Interesting article on kayaking the Forgotten Coast from today's N.Y. Times:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/tr ... d&emc=tda1

Litt,
The problem with going the el cheapo route is that those utility trailers are painted steel and it does not take much to rust them out around salt water. The time and money you spend in modifying a utility trailer for hauling yaks might be better spent getting an aluminum trailer built for ...

As most anyone who fishes knows, treble hooks, although very useful on your plugs, are also one of the major sources of accidental injury when fishing. I have tried various methods of securing my topwater (and other) plugs to avoid entanglement when underway, either in my truck, on the kayak, or in ...

Hey Charlie,
Great tale! No--don't sell the boat. Buy a couple of kayaks to use inshore! That red would have given you one heck of a sleigh ride!!
Best,
Dick

Hey TT,
I like 7 foot rods, but find that in a short yak (9.5 ft Hobie Sport), 6.5 works better.

mjsigns wrote: And all this time I thought it was called Turkey Point Shoals....

Hey mj,
Actually, my charts call it the Dog Island Reef also. The Turkey Point Shoals are about 3 miles due north from where we were. We were drift fishing in about 3-4 feet of water most of the time.

Beautiful day on Monday with not much wind. Headed out to the Dog Island Shoal from Lanark after a quick stop to catch a supply of pinfish on the grass beds. For a weekday, there were a fair number (7) of boats out and about. Fished for Spanish with Gotchas and ChugBugs, plus an assortment of other ...

They used to have them at the Thomasville Road W-M, but ran out. I asked the manager there if he could re-stock them and they had them back within a week. West Marine on W. Tenn. also carries them in Tally.

Hey TT,
Nice craft! If I was in the market for another yak, that is the one I would go with. Here are some pics that I took of our very first FCKA fishing tournament that were inconveniently deleted from the FCKA Web site. The first one below shows Brad of Sunjammers with his red Revo (hey--mebbe ...