To make the most of the situation, I decided to wait an hour and half until the kayak rentals opened in the park and did eventually make it out. Best part of the wait, I fiddled around the shoreline with my spin rod and pulled in my first snakehead. 31.5" female chock full o' eggs. Needless to say, she didn't make it back to spawn...
On Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:02:03 UTC-4, Jereme Thaxton wrote:
-- Stephen, congrats on your successful day of fishing I am glad you found the post informative, I had originally researched the straightedge kayak but after hearing good reviews from Steve F. at a beer tie I decided to go all in. I am still trying to modify mine so that it doesn't snag when stripping or casting, but duct tape over the oar straps will definitely help. Also, i dried it out completely on the last trip and it made it easy to put back into the bag.
I am looking forward to getting the boat on a smallie trip this summer, it worked and tracked fine on the Chesapeake, even in 5 foot seas one day, but fishing a river like the Shenendoah should be a breeze with the occasional rapids.
-Jereme
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On May 5, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Sparkr <stephenrsparks@gmail.com> wrote:
> After reading an interesting post by Jereme regarding fishing from an
> inflatable kayak, I followed-up and purchased one. Years of kayaking
> both coasts of the US in skirted and sit-on-tops, and white-watering
> in playboats made me a little skeptical of how this inflatable would
> perform. I took it out today fishing in small lake near Fairfield, Pa
> as a maiden voyage. WOW! Very impressive on the water, great
> stability, good tracking and quick enough to get the job done if you
> had to ferry across some quick river water. Because the floor
> inflates as a separate chamber, the bottom is convexly shaped which
> allows water to run to the inside edges of the boat where there are
> self-bailing plugs IF you want to keep water out, but it's really
> unnecessary as the boat was much drier then I anticipated. It takes
> no more then about 10 minutes to unfold, inflate all chambers to
> specs, install the very comfortable high-backed seat (which has
> inflatable lumbar support). Living in an apartment make this an ideal
> choice, if you're in the same situation that I am in terms of space.
> It folds up into a durable duffle that fits into the trunk of my
> car.
>
> I did manage to catch about 6 sunfish and 3 crappie (all on a black/
> sparkle wolly-bugger) which made the day all the more enjoyable. My
> new options with this kayak has me more excited then ever to get into
> some bigger water which Jereme has already posted about with this
> model.
>
> Thank you Jereme for your original post!
>
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