masterB, my small rivers are basically shut down due to heat and drought. Youre gonna have to put me on some fish haha. Are those ponds?
FISHING SEASON 2K12!!!!!!
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Well today was the last day of snapper season. My last three trips have ended up with something breaking on my Hobie that made me paddle the two miles back to shore.
I limited out today, one twenty three inches and the other twenty one, not even worth taking a picture. The two weighed combined about what my average fish this year weighed.
Highlight of trip was hooking into something BIG. I fish with a Penn 4/0 loaded with fifty pound mono and I keep my drag locked down tight which is about twenty five pounds of drag. This fish ate a cig on the bottom and proceeded to rip line off that reel like I had hooked a submarine. I attempted to turn the yak to get my bow behind him but he was pulling me so fast and hard sideways that it wasnt turning. Water was coming up over the side of the yak as Im being pulled like never before. Think of the scene in Jaws when the boat is being pulled backwards. This is what was happening to me but Im sideways and I really did need a bigger boat. I was starting to get nervous. Ive got the rudder hard over and still Im not turning. Finally after what seems like an eternity and the fish hasnt even thought about slowing down, I go to loosen the drag so that I can at least try and get my bow turned into the fish when suddenly the line breaks nearly sending me over the other side of the boat. The fish came to the surface after being hooked so it was probably a monster cobia instead of a shark or a tuna which typically will stay down deep.
I limited out today, one twenty three inches and the other twenty one, not even worth taking a picture. The two weighed combined about what my average fish this year weighed.
Highlight of trip was hooking into something BIG. I fish with a Penn 4/0 loaded with fifty pound mono and I keep my drag locked down tight which is about twenty five pounds of drag. This fish ate a cig on the bottom and proceeded to rip line off that reel like I had hooked a submarine. I attempted to turn the yak to get my bow behind him but he was pulling me so fast and hard sideways that it wasnt turning. Water was coming up over the side of the yak as Im being pulled like never before. Think of the scene in Jaws when the boat is being pulled backwards. This is what was happening to me but Im sideways and I really did need a bigger boat. I was starting to get nervous. Ive got the rudder hard over and still Im not turning. Finally after what seems like an eternity and the fish hasnt even thought about slowing down, I go to loosen the drag so that I can at least try and get my bow turned into the fish when suddenly the line breaks nearly sending me over the other side of the boat. The fish came to the surface after being hooked so it was probably a monster cobia instead of a shark or a tuna which typically will stay down deep.
dang JD that's wild.. if it was a cobia that big I don't think you woulda wanted to have to try getting him in the yak with you!! he'da probably knocked you out of it!!
I dont know what I would have done. Bringing a large green cobia into a boat is dangerous, near suicidal in a yak lol. I would probably lip gaff it, cut its throat and bleed it out before I attempt to haul it into the kayak.
Nice LMB Kevin!
I have been headed out with my boat a lot the last couple of days and it's about time that I show some of the results from the last couple of days.
Weather in Holland still sucks and our weatherinstitute is telling us that we are headed to the coldest and wettest summer since 1912.
It's raining everday and most animals are still waiting for spring to start, it's really a strange summer with temperatures of 63F where 77F is common in July. These cold temperatures also have effected our fishing,Zander used to be the hardest fish to catch in the summer and pike to most easy but the script has changed and we are catching way more zander now then common. Even some whoppers at 28inch.
Pike needs a warmer watertemperature for a period of time to really get active and so there now harder to catch then usual.
Pics:
28incher:
The size perch we catch regular,like 1-5 each session
Pike with a half digested prey still sticking out its mouth
another 28inch Zander
29inch Pike
20inch zander
25inch zander
12inch perch
26inch zander
I have been headed out with my boat a lot the last couple of days and it's about time that I show some of the results from the last couple of days.
Weather in Holland still sucks and our weatherinstitute is telling us that we are headed to the coldest and wettest summer since 1912.
It's raining everday and most animals are still waiting for spring to start, it's really a strange summer with temperatures of 63F where 77F is common in July. These cold temperatures also have effected our fishing,Zander used to be the hardest fish to catch in the summer and pike to most easy but the script has changed and we are catching way more zander now then common. Even some whoppers at 28inch.
Pike needs a warmer watertemperature for a period of time to really get active and so there now harder to catch then usual.
Pics:
28incher:
The size perch we catch regular,like 1-5 each session
Pike with a half digested prey still sticking out its mouth
another 28inch Zander
29inch Pike
20inch zander
25inch zander
12inch perch
26inch zander
