What can I say? Sometimes it’s on… and somtimes it’s not. Kris and I took the yaks down to POC last Friday. Based on an article I found about fishing the Dewberry/Shoalwater Bay area, Kris and I figured we’d launch at Charlie’s Bait Camp and give it a go.
We launched and took Alcoa Cut out to Dewberry Island. We opted to fish the south shoreline all the way to the first cut we came to. We didn’t have much luck. Once we arrived at the cut, we anchored up and soon found that we were on a nice preschool of reds, which is to say they were all just a little undersized. I think, in total, Kris and I landed 6 or 7 that were in the 17 to 19″ range. They were a lot of fun to catch, but a couple of keepers would’ve been nice. I did get one, pictured below.
After the fishing started to slow in the cut, we moved out to the Espiritu Santo side of the island and proceeded to wade the area. NADA! With the day dragging on and our beer almost gone, I started the long paddle back. WOW! I need to get in shape. I arrived back at Charlie’s expecting Kris to be far behind, but lo and behold… Kris made his turn into the intracoastal about the time I landed at shore. I cursed him, “Son of a @#$%$”. Kris frickin’ Poppins! I need to start taking an umbrella.
All in all, we got a few, but it was a lot of work to do it. I plan to stick a little closer to Alcoa Cut next time we fish the area.
when embedding a google map, make it a public “my map” with points of interest marked. ;^)
By: texasyaks on August 5, 2008
at 10:22 pm