Report from Pierfishing.com and Baytubers.com:
We were staying at Matt's dad's house and I noticed he had a kayak in storage. It was a Cobra Fish n'Dive that he bought a couple years ago but hadn't had a chance to take it out. We got to talking about it and he suggested we fish the intercoastal waterways to get out of the wind. We were down with that especially since our options seemed limited with the rough seas. I sat on the bow with my legs hanging over while my buddy paddled. LOL--I'm sure it was quite a sight. He fished cut shrimp bait while I threw out 4" & 5" swimbaits trying to target snook. My buddy already had several fish in the boat before I caught my first one. Mostly from me being stubborn with the swimbaits... I eventually switched to shrimp. We caught a nice variety of porgies (pinfish), juvenile snappers (lane, cubera), striped mojarra, puffer fish (spiny boxfish, spotted trunkfish), an Atlantic stingray, and a hardhead catfish. Also saw what looked like maybe a 25-30lb. eagle ray (black with spots) surface next to the kayak. I was trying to target snook for most of the day and got a real good bite that almost tore my swimbait in two (but maybe it was a barracuda?) Fished from about 10am to 3pm.
Makeshift tandem kayak
Lane sanpper
Lane sanpper
Pinfish
Striped mojarra
Cubera snapper (I think... they've got canine teeth)
Hardhead catfish (notice the less-than-enthused look on Matt's face)
Atlantic stingray
Another lane snapper
My first catch in Florida--a pinfish!
Spotted trunkfish
Another cubera snapper
Spiny boxfish
Hard but short bite...
The locals
