Quick outing pays off

[J.A. Veil]

This morning the weather guys called for high winds and rain. After breakfast I checked the actual conditions, saw that things were not as bad as predicted, and decided to go out for a short trip.

I fished from my 11' paddle-powered Native Manta Ray 11 and trolled three medium spinning rods with paddletails. I trolled for 1.5 hours and caught 12 stripers, including my second largest ever from the kayak (29.5" -- I could not lean back far enough to get the whole fish in the photo). The big fish came seconds after another rod began shaking with a 20" striper. That was several minutes of excitement to deal with both of those fish.

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About 11:30 I experienced a rapid 180-deg shift in wind direction, a brief period of high winds, and a few minutes of rain. That added a bit of extra drama to the trip.

I used a 3" paddletail on one rod, a 4" paddletail on a second rod, and a 5" Storm Shad on the third rod. During the 1.5 hours I caught 12 stripers. The Storm shad was not touched at all. The 3" paddletail caught about 7 of the fish, including the large one, and the 4" paddletail caught about 5 fish.

[DanMarino]

Those are some healthy looking fish John!

[EMSer]

Well played, sir. Good decision to go out!

[Salty Dog]

Nice job, thanks for the report.

[scott taylor]

Great work John, catching between the wx systems.....Anyone who followed the wx reports would have stayed onshore this am. It reminds me of the lyrics, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing".....
I also made a 5 mile loop this morning with my visiting nephew. We caught plenty and ended up in near flat calm conditions at the end of the ebbing tide.

Great that you caught the new PB from a kayak....that's a ton of fish to land over the gunnel of a kayak.....congrats and well done. Good activity for March, often a winter month!

ST

[buzz]

Sweet


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