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Littoral · Post by **Littoral** » April 15th, 2006, 9:46 am

A lot of wind.
Fish? What fish.
I had a rare 6 hours to fish and the forecast was 5-10. Hooray.
The wind is particularly important in a kayak when the freeboard is about 12 inches.
I couldnâ€™t catch anything. I met the top of the tide & did near everything I could & nothing nothing nothing. Three hours of nothing and the wind is a steady 15 at least. The choice is to stick it out and/or work up another strategy. The cast net in the truck comes to mind and Iâ€™m thinking about what bait I could catch. Iâ€™d already spoken with another group that fished all around me with live shrimp & theyâ€™d caught zip too. There were tiny Mullet everywhere but I hadnâ€™t seen anything bigger. Was it worth mudding around a creek to find bull minnows (killifish)?
Fine, Iâ€™ll do it. They werenâ€™t easy to find but I did catch 10 fat ones.
I moved around a lot free lining one and working another rod under a CT. Two more hours of nothing. I was about to pack it in when I figured there ought to be at least a Flounder around here somewhere. I set up on a channel edge and in the last hour of light and was rewarded with 3 very nice Flounder (lost 2). Itâ€™s slow patient fishing that Iâ€™m not much good at but I was proud to have pulled off something.

Post by **Fisherman989** » April 15th, 2006, 11:12 am

The 16th of April is not till tomorrow. When did you go?

yukondon · Post by **yukondon** » April 15th, 2006, 3:19 pm

ESP ?

dave7 · Post by **dave7** » April 15th, 2006, 10:16 pm

I need to learn how to fish on days that haven't happened yet...Mondays in particular.

Wind in a kayak or a canoe can drive you batty.

Post by **Fisherman989** » April 16th, 2006, 6:16 am

I went Friday, 14Apr06, too. We went to Econfina. Winds were tolerable in the AM but it got rough around 2-3 o"clock when we quit. We got 6 keepers and our buddy boat got 6...lots of shorts.....mainly about where the first bird rack was....on C/T and white Gulps.

Littoral · Post by **Littoral** » April 17th, 2006, 7:47 am

Oh, yeah, the 14th.

Post by **qoutrage** » April 17th, 2006, 8:33 am

Thanks for the report Lit. Fishin and no catchin, mostly, that ain't like you. Better go again,, soon.

Post by **Fish Masterson** » April 17th, 2006, 9:18 pm

Well Lit, your report makes me feel a little better. We fished lanark from Fri. to Sun. with an average of two fish per boat(we had two boats) per day. It was VERRRY slow to say the least. Most of the trout we caught were nice sized though. We had one little bit of action on Sunday, when we saw some birds diving on bait almost in front of the marine lab. We set up a drift through the melee, and proceded to boat big ladyfish, one after the other for about 20 mins, with three Spanish mixed in the bag. The kids had a blast with this. I landed one Spanish at 4lbs, which is my personal best. Then a yahoo comes out of nowhere, and cuts right between us, through the middle of the feeding frenzy and scattered everything

. Well enough with the hijacking

......

Oh, and one more thing, it was very rough every day from round about lunch on. I shouda known, with the forcast calling for smooth to a light chop.

Post by **Chalk** » April 17th, 2006, 9:40 pm

Keep after them Lit....