Darth-Baiter

this is great insight. thanks. whoa!! those Werner Paddles are EXPENSIVE!!!

Zman TRD finesse almost exclusively. i may try the Yamamoto version one day, when i have an extra money i used the use the TRD craws, but i think the tiny stick works just as well. marginally cheaper.

send them my way. i have 3 positions in beautiful Napa CA.

mmmmm...cake.

absolutely. i keep my tailgate down with kayak jabbing out, and lower the toppers swing down glass door. fairly secure and my stuff stays dry. if i did a road trip kayak excursion, i would put my kayak on the yakima rack on top of the topper shell and go down the road like that. that way i can sleep in back if need be. i have done it. i cable lock the kayak down outside and put down an air mattress inside. servicable sleep.

Focus on having fun and wear my PFD.

Thanks to your other thread I took my Phenix Maxim out today and all my big fish were on it and a drop shot. That rod is just plain “lucky” for me. I did lose a 6+ with my net debacle.

good call. good bait keeper tab. I felt the grip is a bit fat for me, tho. I have the Kaden and sometimes the fat grip gives me hand fatigue.

its different. fishing two people on a bass boat is a pain. one guy is seems to always snag and then the entire unit needs to go in for the lure rescue. on my kayak, my snags are my own problem. on my buddies bass boat, I hate snagging because it's "our" problem:D I love on a bass boat you just pull into the water and all your gear is already stowed and good to go. that part is a godsend. my kayaks feels like I am moving out of a hotel room over and over again. Groundhog Day. for at least 15 minutes.

and then some!! my friends PA12 has rails galore.

Today it was crazy! Rained and the bite was on!!

I love them scrambled. your's looked overcooked to me, but that is the beauty of the egg. you can cook it however you like. I like a creamy consistency like how they do them in France. yum. eggs are the swissarmy knife of foods. they do it all.

yesterday. I pause to tie on a LV500 for weeds. in the meantime I pitch out a drop shot to "have something in the water". as I reach back for the other rod, I felt my dropshotrig, lean up against my shin. I grab it and haul back. viola!! it put up an epic fight. I thought I would be bigger. 4lbs

he said he was reaching back to lower a landing gear wheel. he just got the wheels and is working out a routine. I assume he can cross this one particular method off the "Try" list. it sucked and was scary to see. I think scramble up the nose, set foot in one of those raised bars on the side of a pro angler and put entire body weight on it would flip it back over. but you will end up underneath for a few moments.

I am a newbie. I think the time a bass is the loudest is when they are buried under a mat. I am sometimes fishing quietly and I hear and see a big blow up in the mats. I will charge in and drop in a punch rig. I use 65lb braid, a 7'6" heavy rod, and some handmedown Lew reel. I hate my rod and it is my only one I kinda want to replace. the handles is weird and tapered. in a punch rod, I think a solid grip is kinda key. punching is not stealthy with me. I poke the nose of my kayak into the mat to. hold me in place, I stand up and go round the perimeter of my bow.

I bought a Garmin "smart" watch. I wear it when I am fishing new waters and kinda want to track my mileage. (now Navionic App does the same thing) but 99% of the time, I wear my beater. my wife (girlfriend) bought it for me 21 years ago. I have had the band changed twice. unavailable now, or very difficult to find, so if the band breaks again I assume it is game over. I have my clock turned on with my fish finder, but I always look at my wrist for the time. its handy to check tide-times and the "wife needs me home by" time. this WATCH and my old Hewlett Packard HP48GX calculator are probably my best value possessions of all time. I have some high end watches that I pull out occasionally, but I wear this one out of love. hahha.. it is an old discontinued Casio Pathfinder 1300 or something.

I'll preface this by saying I think they are VERY difficult to flip over. Very difficult. but they do. yesterday, after a very fun and fairly successful fishing trip. (me and two friends, in the middle of a cove with dumber bass) My one friend and I decided we have had enough fun and started towards the ramp. I have been on my Outback for a year now and my landing routine is the same. pedal towards ramp, get close and pull up rudder, yank up pedal drive and place on deck. grab paddles and stand up and arm-pedal the final stretch to land. once I get close, I walk out on the nose and step on terra-firma, grab handle and pull kayak up partially on land. yesterday, I did just this, and I look back at my friend. I had to do that cartoonish "rub my eyes" move because I couldn't believe what I saw. I saw an upside down ProAngler. I immediately push off again and paddle out. my buddy had ZERO shot of flipping his kayak back over. it looked like a floating whale. really tall reverse freeboard. he would need to be a penguin to squirt up that high to belly slide across the top to try to flip it back over. (which is how I right my Outback) some dude in an alum boat and trolling motor dragged him to an adjacent beach. once he could touch bottom, he flipped his kayak. I am going to insist he float his ProAngler in his swimming pool to figure out how to flip it back over. if we were in Clearlake or some other big lake, we were EFFED. he is 100% PFD, thankfully. he did learn he needed to cinch down his PFD tighter..it kept floating up over his neck. total strangers came and we dredged for his rods. 1 oz bullet weights and poached trebles from big swimbaits. really good dudes. we had to leave and they stayed. they found 3 out of 5 rods after we left!! good good dudes. my friend is there now trying for the remaining two. the guys left a marker buoy where they found the 3. did I mention, "Good dudes". a bunch of Curados deep sixed in a lake is a jagged pill. Practice flipping those big kayak guys!! I think some rescue straps you can unhook and toss to the other side as a handle would be my first start. oh, I put on goggles and went overboard. I dont know how a bass sees my worm. 7-8 feet down is pitch brown. pitch brown. I couldnt see my elbows. Bonus, I got to reaffirm my own ability to get back on board in deep water. check!!

I was tidying up my work bench. it's my car working workbench and it has been reduced to holding lures, baits, hooks that I have used and taken off my kayak. I like to sharpen hooks and put them back into rotation, and such. I notice a jar where I saved all those spray straws from things like WD-40, and gun cleaner sprays. I thought, "now why would I keep all of these?" then I remembered. I had visions of building Inurigs and going out on a lake with a bunch of unaware bass and cleaning house. Apparently, I forgot about my bigbass dreams. hahha.. at the time every youtubefisherman was out hawking the newest trend. you still cutting straws, glueing, stabbing lines, burying hooks into an Inurig? me, the excursion never got off the ground beyond hoarding plastic straws. I should at least BUILD ONE. maybe tonight, for tomorrows fishing trip. failure to launch at my home.

That’s frightening. A hard turn could swamp them. And I need an ice chest like that. i hope they caught fish safely. Sheesh.

thinking more. if I amortize my initial cost of admission. rods, kayak (two of them), baits, etc. I am up to about $3,172.12 per trip. you boat guys are really bolstering the economy.

welcome aboard!! you still in contact with the old girlfriend? maybe she has a line on another boat. shhhhh...get a kayak. a fishing kayak.

walk a finesse jig down the steps? I have a similar location and the smallies pick up the jig as it drops down a terrace level. takes mental fortitude sometimes to recognize the bait has been picked up.

I thought a longer rod is better because we are picking up more line on the hooksets? dunno

Oops. Sorry sir. 7’2”. Not sure why I added an inch (insert dirty joke here) yup. That’s it. mine: with my dropshot hook!! Hey!

yea. I found an awesome stucco guy. I handed his card to anyone that showed up at my house asking for a reference.