Been awhile....
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:30 pm
Haven't had anything worth posting in I don't know when 
I met a guy who lives here in my community who likes to fish and has a kayak, but not much experience in fishing from one. I had been watching the tides of late and knew we were in a full moon phase. Decided I wanted to try the afternoon outgoing since I knew there would be current flow.
We headed to Cockroach and started working one of the passes. The water was pretty murky and a lot of floating debris and grass with all the rain we had been having. Figured it was prime for a gold spoon. I am very partial to my Capt Mikes Gold spoon and it always produced for me. We got there around 2pm so it was nice and warm....sheesh
It's fricking July...what was I thinking 
Gotta hydrate
About an hour into our trip....I'm working a deep cut and just slow rolling my spoon just off the bottom when I felt a soft thump and slight pull. I responded in kind by tugging back and could feel the weight on my line so I started to reel...am I just hung into some grass or what...I felt a shake ....ok...THAT'S not grass...I pull and reel again and all of a sudden the other end of the line lit up big time. Fish on...and it was ripping line off my reel like crazy. Been too long since I felt that kind of excitement. I didn't panic...because it had the current working in it's favor too. I wanted to pull my anchor, but I was afraid to take a hand off the reel for even a moment....but I worked it slowly into about 20 yards and it just took off again. When I was able to turn it after this last run, I knew...short of it breaking my leader...that she was mine.
She was 34in natural lay and fat and healthy. She swam away no worse for the wear. Thanks to my new friend for taking the picture for me. His name is Gary Kraft and I swear he looks enough like Steve Manning to pass as his brother. Don't know his politics yet and don't want to know
I met a guy who lives here in my community who likes to fish and has a kayak, but not much experience in fishing from one. I had been watching the tides of late and knew we were in a full moon phase. Decided I wanted to try the afternoon outgoing since I knew there would be current flow. We headed to Cockroach and started working one of the passes. The water was pretty murky and a lot of floating debris and grass with all the rain we had been having. Figured it was prime for a gold spoon. I am very partial to my Capt Mikes Gold spoon and it always produced for me. We got there around 2pm so it was nice and warm....sheesh
It's fricking July...what was I thinking Gotta hydrate About an hour into our trip....I'm working a deep cut and just slow rolling my spoon just off the bottom when I felt a soft thump and slight pull. I responded in kind by tugging back and could feel the weight on my line so I started to reel...am I just hung into some grass or what...I felt a shake ....ok...THAT'S not grass...I pull and reel again and all of a sudden the other end of the line lit up big time. Fish on...and it was ripping line off my reel like crazy. Been too long since I felt that kind of excitement. I didn't panic...because it had the current working in it's favor too. I wanted to pull my anchor, but I was afraid to take a hand off the reel for even a moment....but I worked it slowly into about 20 yards and it just took off again. When I was able to turn it after this last run, I knew...short of it breaking my leader...that she was mine.
She was 34in natural lay and fat and healthy. She swam away no worse for the wear. Thanks to my new friend for taking the picture for me. His name is Gary Kraft and I swear he looks enough like Steve Manning to pass as his brother. Don't know his politics yet and don't want to know
