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Posted: 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 couldn’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 I’m thinking about what bait I could catch. I’d already spoken with another group that fished all around me with live shrimp & they’d caught zip too. There were tiny Mullet everywhere but I hadn’t seen anything bigger. Was it worth mudding around a creek to find bull minnows (killifish)?
Fine, I’ll do it. They weren’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). It’s slow patient fishing that I’m not much good at but I was proud to have pulled off something.
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 couldn’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 I’m thinking about what bait I could catch. I’d already spoken with another group that fished all around me with live shrimp & they’d caught zip too. There were tiny Mullet everywhere but I hadn’t seen anything bigger. Was it worth mudding around a creek to find bull minnows (killifish)?
Fine, I’ll do it. They weren’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). It’s slow patient fishing that I’m not much good at but I was proud to have pulled off something.
. Well enough with the hijacking