Chasing_Tails

They give you a lot of opportunities... It also helps to have a fishing partner who is a good photographer with quality equipment.

Dimension Typhoon. My first "fishing" kayak, purchased June of 1999. This was back in the day when kayak fishing was new and you "built" your boat for fishing. This 11'2" boat has been everywhere from offshore to inshore backwaters. Still gets used in tight quarters as she spins on a dime and at my local tarpon pond as it is easy to load at only 42lbs. Islander Ventura Expedition. Sister of the Typhoon born a year later in 2000. Goal was for longer range and better handling. Still gets used almost every weekend. Solid boat and a real battle wagon. She spends a lot of time in the backwater and has the oyster scars to show it. Waverunner. This is a specialist boat that I picked up for a steal back in 2002. Fiberglass and designed for offshore fishing in South Africa. Used it quite a bit launching from the beach to hit the pogy pods for tarpon, kings, cobia, bonito, sharks, and anything else that wanted to drag it around the ocean. Fun boat, clean deck with internal hull tackle and fish storage. Great fishing craft and surfs a wave like a long board. (On order) Old Town Autopilot 136. My first new fishing kayak in a long time. Last update is I can expect delivery in January. Already have a pile of rigging supplies sitting in the garage waiting for installation.

That is a standard point on a 92611. I ran out of 34007’s in size 4 so I had to go to my surf fishing bait hooks...

Since top water has been the ticket lately I figured I’d make up a stretched gurgler mullet. And added in a rattle for good measure. The fly sits tail low in the water with the majority of the silhouette below the surface. Hook: Mustad 92611 long shank, size 4 Thread: Danville monocord 3/0, gray Tail: craft fur white/gray/black with pearl and silver flashabou Underbody: Pearl estaz Overbody: 2mm foam, gray/black Rattle: 4mm glass Eyes: 5/16 molded, yellow Gills: Red sharpie marker

Snook approved of it this morning... I like using the worm hook as it gives a larger profile head without the resin head encroaching back into the hook gap. i keep it very light so it is a slow fall. Most of the mangrove edges are only a foot or two deep. Can be fished as a twitch and pause or a straight rapid strip.

It does have "a" stripe...;-)

Been fishing flooded mangroves for snook, trout, and reds. Needed a fly that could get in to the roots, and more importantly, get back out. Worm hook mullet: Hook: Gamakatsu G-lock worm 2/0 Thread: Danville 3/0 gray Wing: Slinky Fiber Flash, black/gray/white Throat: Krystal Flash, red Eyes: 1/4” stick on, yellow Head: Clear cure goo, thick with Solareze Bone Dry overcoat

I'm originally from PA (western). I'm going to be visiting this thanksgiving with family and am going to get on the water for some trout, possibly steelhead, depending on what is running best. I haven't stream/river fished PA since 1998 so it has been a long time.

Hello all. Just recently joined the group and figured I would start with a fishing report. I fish the east coast of Florida and went out this weekend for some early morning marsh fishing out of the kayak in the Ormond Beach area. With the large amount of rain lately most of the areas are flooded so the redfish have become sparse, but the snook were out in numbers. I'll admit, the larger snook came off of a Rapala Skitterwalk thrown with an eggbeater, but I ended up with a bunch of smaller 15-20" fish on the skip shrimp. The fish were holding in cuts and intersections from flat to flat. On the water at 0630 with a nice sunrise, off by 1030 when more rain started moving in.