Kayak Fishing

You can, but that is a helluva paddle. Most rigs are around 8 miles or more to get out to them.

It's been awhile since I've been fishing on a yak, but I can tell you that the yak that I did yak with was a hell of a yak. I yak'ed on my yak yak yak yak yak yak yak and then yak yak yak


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I have a hobie pro angler. I find it amusing that you think Austin is surrounded by some of the best bass fishing TX lol. It's not bad but seriously. I live in the hill country now not far from Austin. At best I would say the bass fishing is "OK". It's nothing like when I lived minutes from Rayburn and Toledo Bend and fork was 1-1/2 hours away plus a bunch more like Murvaul which was fork before fork became fork. I once fished a non professional tournament (used to do it a lot in college), 5 fish with a weight of right at 35lbs and I didn't finish in the top 10 of the tournament = no money.

Anyway I have peddled my pro angler out to the rigs but I did in LA which means the fist set out of Grand Isle is minutes away in a kayak.

Me? Now I've never gone after really big fish. Maybe 25 pound redfish. I've only fished saltwater with it a few times. If it's calm I can stand in my kayak because it's a huge kayak. I mostly got it for freshwater fishing when I lived in East Texas on all of the above mentioned lakes. Even the 2,000 acre lake minutes from town I have caught multiple 7-8 pound bass while fishing out of the kayak. My all time best was just over 10 pounds on Lake Caddo and was given a reproduction for landing it, but that was out of a regular bass boat.

There's a guy I know somewhat who fishes with a group out of Corpus. He makes the news quite often. They surf fish and kayak fish and have caught some monster fish. Last year he made all the news for catching an 800 pound tiger shark, but he caught it surf fishing and not from his kayak. Lots of times a group of them go surf fishing and one guy takes the line out with a kayak for everyone else and drops it off X amount of distance from the shore and paddles back

If I decide to keep fishing around Austin or San Antonio I'll get something smaller/lighter and not made for large lakes.

It's not the normal type kayak. It has a fish locker, tackle locker, a regular storage locker, an ice chest and a full length 6 rod holder. There's a group of guys who go out to the first set of rigs who have a forum and post videos who go out weekly. A lot of them use the same kayak, but a fair number use a regular fishing kayak. Bonus here being you peddle and can fight a fish with 2 hands and not having to worry about paddling at the same time.

That is sweet. What does it run?

I think they have gone up in price. I actually got the first one they built for taking promotional pictures when they first came out in 2008 or 2009 I can't remember.

I paid $2,200 for it. Not something you want to carry and portage a lot since it's heavy. But it's nice for bass fishing since I store 6 rods and change in a sec. Plus can peddle and cast/fight fish with both hands at the same time. I have a depth finder on mine as well. When it's calm I can stand up in it and sight fish as well.

Personally I find fork over rated and I've fished all the lakes in East, TX a LOT. College I only had class M-T- and 1/2 day on Wed. so I fished a lot. It's good if you can fish in the week during the spawn otherwise too many people, too many out of staters that don't have a clue etc...

I would rate the smaller lakes better than fork where even a newbie can catch 5lbers all day long in the spring like Murvual, Pinkston, Nacogdoches (where I once caught a pair of 8 pounders off the same stump in back to back cast while my partner fucked with the trolling motor), then Rayburn and Toledo before Fork.

Texasfishingforum.com has an entire section on kayak fishing you might find interesting. I haven't look at it in a while. Now that I'm in the hill country I'll probably hit Falcon and Amistad next spring/summer and just fish out of my boat.

I have a jackson big tuna, i usually do Venice / Grand Isle / Toledo / Caddo and any backwoods shit i can hit in mine

Now you're talking my neck of the woods. At one time I thought of doing some fishing in the marsh but visibility kind of sucks in a lot of places as you're not higher than the marsh grass and you have to avoid coon asses going 60 who have been drinking all day.

It's not the bad really

I'm super conservative when it comes to that stuff. A friend of the family got killed on Lake Maurepas when a drunk guy ran over his 14' bateau.

Sometimes you have to pull ur beef curtains up and go for it bro