Kayak Angler’s Choice Awards

September 12, 2012
Fishing, Kayak Fishing, Kayaking
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YakAngler.com and KayakFishingRadio.com get together and put out an annual Kayak Angler’s Choice Awards and they are going on right now. As I scrolled through the list making my selections I was surprised to see this blog as an option for Kayak Angling Blog of the Year. I thought that was pretty cool and I thank whomever nominated me. This scene from The Mask immediately came to mind:

 

If you want to play along you can follow the link below. There is no incentive for winning so just one vote is all that’s needed. If you vote for this blog, great! Good karma is sure to come your way. More details from the website below the link.

Kayak Anglers Choice Awards (KACA) is a joint venture between YakAngler.com and KayakFishingRadio.com. Each year kayak anglers from across the globe nominate and vote for their favorites in various categories like Kayak Angler of the year, Kayak Fishing Guide of the year, Kayak of the year, and more. The KACA are the only kayak fishing specific awards driven solely by kayak anglers.

Nominations for the KACA run from June 1st to July  31st.

Votes for the Kayak Anglers Choice Awards will be taken from September 10th- October 10th. KACA polls will only be active during the voting and nominations phases.

Due high levels of suspicious voting activity, users will only be allowed to vote once.

This award consists only of the said Title and the admiration and respect of your fellow Kayak Anglers. There is no money or other considerations involved. This award is not intended as an offer of sponsorship or employment by KayakFishingRadio or YakAngler.com and there is no responsibility or obligation on your part to either entity or them to you. You will own the bragging rights to the Title until the following year’s Choice Awards.

For questions regarding the KACA see the FAQ below or contact us and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Current KACA categories:

  • “Kayak Angler” of the year
  • “Kayak Fishing Guide” of the year
  • “Kayak” of the year
  • “Kayak Angler Forum” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Journal/Magazine” of the year
  • “Most Innovative Kayak Angling/Fishing Product” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Tournament” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Online Tournament” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Retailer/Outfitter/Bait Shop” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Location” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Online Video” of the year
  • “Kayak Angling Blog/Blogger” of the year

Popper style

September 11, 2012
Fishing, Fly Fishing, Freshwater, Warmwater
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Popper style, pop, pop, popper style……

The lakes in the neighborhood ponds have cleared up quite a bit and as Catch Cormier always says “clear water favors the fly rodder”. So yesterday after work I slung some poppers and had pretty good action before the sun went down.

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I was using smaller poppers that were better suited for bream, but every once in a while a bass would explode from under the grass to annihilate the popper, or even the hooked bream. They were very aggressive yesterday which made for a lot of fun.

Also fun – rapping Popper Style while fly fishing in the neighborhood.

She want pop pop, she love pop pop……

Post-Isaac Fishing

September 5, 2012
Fishing, Fly Fishing, Saltwater
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Got a last minute call from a friend looking for a partner to make a run in his new boat that he built, maybe scout some areas out for this upcoming winter. Sought the approval from the wife and got it without too much apprehension. I think she was ready for me to be out of the house after spending some quality time together riding out Isaac.

We headed down to the coast, not really knowing what was going to be open or what to expect fishing-wise. I often hear people praising the fishing just before and just after landfall, suggesting that it is one of the best times of the year to go. We really just hoped to have some good clarity so we’d be able to sight fish for reds.

Little’s boat is pretty badass, amazing to think he designed and built it himself, out of his garage. He has a thread of the build on microskiff.com – http://www.microskiff.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1345433649

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Luck would have it that the ramp at the place we intended to launch was open, though we were one of only a handful of trucks in a parking lot that would normally be packed any other Labor Day. We launched/fished an area that saw a significant surge as the storm rolled through. Folks had been real busy cleaning up their homes/businesses, debris lined the road and utility crews were a common sight. I’m not gonna lie, I felt a bit guilty that we would be going fishing, but I’d imagine the money we spent launching and at the gas station on the way down was welcome.

Fishing was pretty good, all things considered. Clarity in spots was decent, other spots not too good, no where was excellent, but we were still able to see some reds and boat a few as well.

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It didn’t take long for Little to connect with a bull. It proved to be his personal best, the biggest on the day, and biggest for the boat thus far at 28lbs. Usually we don’t see bulls in the marsh until late Fall, maybe Isaac helped speed up that migration. Maybe it was luck, he did have a 10 on his tail(my lucky number).

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Props to Little for hooking up with the big red. I’d like to think it was my excellent poling skills, but I’m sure the bottom of his new boat would say otherwise. My biggest on the day was probably around 10lbs, not a true bull, but not a slouch either. Something that surprised me today was how much harder redfish fight when they have some deeper/open water to run. Maybe it’s the oxygen, but reds the same size in the marsh usually give up a lot sooner than they were on Monday.

Had a great time fishing with Little, his new boat is awesome, perfect for chasing bulls in Louisiana. Hopefully I’ll get the invite again this winter when we hit prime time.