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Galveston trip #12136861 03/12/17 02:24 AM
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I snapped this photo from the 27th floor of the Palisade Palms on the far east side of Galveston where Louise and I were hosting out kids/grandkids over the week. We were getting ready to leave when I saw 3 yellow kayaks, two tandems, out for a spin in a protected area off the shipping channel. Earlier, there was a solo kayaker out fishing in the same area.

I did get out on Thursday and fished with my bros-in-law in his Old Town canoe. I ended up with about a dozen fish, trout and drum, using ultralight tackle. Tons of fun . . . but not very stable forcing us to just pick a spot and anchor out.

Well, I must say that even though I have been almost 100% freshwater, I caught the bug and could see how one could spend a whole lot of time out in the bays, shallows, other places.

I think I'll get back down there soon and have a kayak in the rear of my truck!

Brad


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banana Brad, I'm in Spring picking up some tackle and selecting potential coastal kayak fishing locations. So far, Christmas Bay and Aransas Pass are at the top of my list. Picked up Crawford's books on the Texas coastal bend for kayakers. I'm planning on hitting those areas the middle of April.

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Bill,

I have to be honest that the allure of coastal kayak fishing sort of escaped me more than a bit. It looked like miles and miles of sort of shallow water to me, less views to take in. Whew! Did this one day out, even riding tandem in an unstable canoe, turn me around!

If it was that much fun in the vessel we were using, and using tackle that really wasn't geared for what we were targeting, I quickly realized how great this coastal fishing would be from a kayak with proper tackle.

Coy had ultralight gear but all of his plastics, his hooks and his weights looked sized for medium or medium light rods and larger reels. We weren't getting bit throwing fake shrimp and other plastics, I think I had one, then I decided to cobble together a drop shot rig using a circle hook and an oversized weight, all that I had. To this, I used the smallest plastic I could find. I immediately started catching fish, trout and drum.

If I had brought my own tackle, my own kayak too for that matter where I could have moved around and fished the docks and more, I think I might have caught 3X as many fish.

Coy has an Old Town fiberglass model canoe and it just doesn't feel all that stable. He had side-mounted a trolling motor but it was ineffective in creating a good directional pull . . . it made the canoe do weird things.

So, we just picked a spot and anchored out off the bow letting the canoe stretch out on the anchor line facing us into the wind. Even stationary, it was tons of fun.

As canoe's go under trolling power, my Sportspal with its trolling motor mounted directly off its square stern? It'd have been so much better, incomparable really with regard to stability.

But, a kayak under human power, no 55 lbs. batteries to lug along, for holding position on water? Wow! That'd be one really fun day on the water compared to what we were in, that, or even my Sportspal which really is essentially very close to a jon boat but only weighing 69 lbs. It'd be fun going out tandem that way.

I was a freshwater lake prude; Thursday's trip out broadened my views a lot on other opportunities.

Those marsh areas like one sees off I-45 crossing over to Galveston Island, places like that? That environment with its sort of built in wave suppression looks like it'd be super fun.

Brad



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Welcome to the world of inshore saltwater fishing. I love it so much that I plan on using my Radar, Casita travel trailer, and Chevy van to fish up and down the Tx gulf coast. This is the first fish I caught on my first day of surf fishing. Needless to say, I became hooked on inshore fishing.

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cheers


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Now that's a proper fish to get you hooked on the Salt Life!!!

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The coast has bitten me also. I went mabey 10-12 years ago, caught one small shark in the surf, now ive gone offshore in the yak every year several times. I cant get enough. Im not fimilar with inshore but im sure the salt bug is the same.


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