Kayak Floatilla Trip #2

Post by **Apalach** » April 5th, 2006, 2:06 pm

Billy Miller wrote:
â€œHow about Wakulla Beach for the next trip. We have a good tide on Sunday April 9th, low tide around 7am, with a high tide in the early afternoon.â€

Billy Miller · Post by **Billy Miller** » April 5th, 2006, 6:23 pm

The site has been quiet for a couple of days. I'm back from out of town, Dick, I will be there on Sunday, better yet. Let's meet at Savanah's Rest. for breakfast on Sunday at 7:00 am. Bakertize showed me that place. How bout it guys, and gals.

Billy

Post by **Apalach** » April 5th, 2006, 8:05 pm

Billy,
Sunday, the 9th works for me. Will see ya at Savannahs at 0700. Been wanting to eat there anyway--seems to be the go to place for all the boatfishing folks. Anyone else? Come on down...

Post by **Charles** » April 5th, 2006, 8:28 pm

The 9th works best for me. I'll have relatives in town the following two weekends.

Post by **Apalach** » April 5th, 2006, 8:36 pm

BTW, this may be the post about Wakulla Beach that Litt referred to earlier--good info here about the area, plus a map.

http://www.bigbendfishing.net/phpbb/vie ... ulla+beach

Post by **jsuber** » April 5th, 2006, 8:40 pm

I'm fishing Jacksonville April 9th on my way down from VA, I'm Still up for April 15th if anyone cn make it then too. I look forward to meeting you all and learning new waters.

brew2 · Post by **brew2** » April 5th, 2006, 9:20 pm

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am an avid sailor who has
just recently gotten into fishing with my 11 ft. canoe.Its very tender
and I am just now getting used to it.Over the last month,Ive been
all over the fishing grounds.Wakulla Beach,river,St,Marks river.
All to no avail.One of your members,Barker turned me onto you alls
web site and I need advice. If you can put up with a slow canoesist
vs. yak. I look forward to the trip. Thanks a lot. Paul / Brew2

Post by **Charles** » April 5th, 2006, 10:04 pm

It's cool, Brew2.
I canoe too.

Hey guys, I can't promise I'll make breakfast, but I can be at Wakulla Beach by whatever time ya'll are planning on getting there.

Post by **Apalach** » April 5th, 2006, 10:44 pm

I am an avid sailor

Welcome aboard brew2--you're more than welcome to join us. BTW, what do you sail? I am just getting backinto sailing again myself--kayak sailing, that is. It is a real blast. I have two Hobie Mirage Drive kayaks that you can paddle, pedal, or sail. I have yet to try sailing and fishing on the same trip--I think that would task my multitasking skills more than I want to think about at this point! But I do know of folks who sail 8-10 miles to their fishing spot, fish for several hours, and then sail back again. Here's a pic of my Hobie Outback rigged for sailing.

Post by **Charles** » April 6th, 2006, 6:47 am

That would work great trolling for mackerel.

geezer · Post by **geezer** » April 6th, 2006, 6:51 am

Dont know about the 9th yet...but in any case wont make the beach until
about 9:00...dont wait, we'll find you. 15th is a go, but probably not the
16th...also might change at the last min.

Billy...site has been quiet...I think I wore everyone out

But I have my
next thousand questions ready to go if someone turns me loose.

Welcome Brew2...these guys are great with newbies.

Grt WB info from Littoral, Apalach...tks to both.

A kayak sail....hoodathunkit.

Bob

Post by **Charles** » April 6th, 2006, 7:41 am

When I was little, Granpa Pulley had a sailboat that he made. Much like today's SOT kayak, it was little more than a big, hollow core, plywood, surfboard with a sail, rudder and dagger board on it. He made all that, too.

He used to use it to troll for Spanish off Live Oak Island back in the '60's with spoons and dusters that he made from hollow core, nylon rope and egg sinkers. Did pretty well, too. he used to come in with biiig Spanish and the occasional king and cobia.

Post by **Apalach** » April 6th, 2006, 9:23 am

Your Granpa sounds like he was a real craftsman! One thing nice about the Hobie pedal yaks is that the Mirage Drive pedal unit makes for a great trolling "motor" as well, so you can use either that alone, or the sail and the pedal drive together to troll. So far, I have found that the pedal drive alone works fine as a trolling motor and picked up a 3-4 foot shark and a moray eel trolling over the reef edge offshore from Dania in the open Atlantic back in December. Had several other strong strikes also, but they kept cutting me off, so I don't know what they were. I was using Â¾ oz bucktail jigs with two stinger hooks inserted in dead ballyhoo over the reef edge. On the return to the launch site, I was bookinâ€™ and picked up the shark on a red circle hook and a single conventional stinger hook on a steel leader with a Haywire twist and a dead finger mullet for bait. But they still kept hitting me just above the swivel on the steel leader. Lots of fun until the swells picked up to +4 feet and I had to beat a hasty retreat about 2-3 miles back to the launch point, and then do a stern-first return thru about 4 foot surf in my 9 foot Hobie Sport. Made it successfully, but it was a bit hairy in such a small yak!

Post by **Bakertize** » April 7th, 2006, 9:38 am

Yea guys, I should be there (0700 at Savanas) for $ 2.00 breakfast then off to Wakulla Beach for some fish'n

thanks Apalach for starting a tread on this trip.
I've been real busy here at the river renting canoes and Kayaks and haven't had time to even look at the computer for more than a second.

look'n forward to fishing with some of the newbee's jsuber, geezer, and brew2 y'all come on out
Charles if ya need a ride to savanas sunday morning give me a call.

Post by **Apalach** » April 7th, 2006, 9:43 am

Hey Robert,
Been wondering where you was! Figured work must be getting in the way of what's really important! Glad you will be able to join us--I'm really looking forward to it. See ya at Savannahs.
Dick

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