All things paddling

Is that a Lifetime Stealth? The striping looks the same.

 

I've taken a couple of rods, a single tray tackle box belted around my waist, and a bait bucket of live shrimp and hopped the rocks way out on the jetty, and I've done the base camp with several rods. Both are fun in their own way. Lord, I miss Houston. I could get in the car at my house early in the morning, run I-10 for 45 minutes or so and be waist deep fishing the flats at Anahuac for specks, rat reds and flounder in an hour.

That was a nice doormat flounder. /envy

 

Teton

 

Watching that guy get all that mess back over the dune was entertaining. My wife asked me a couple of years ago if I wanted one for Christmas, and I said absolutely not.
There are times and places for his setup. Where he was just isn't one of them. There are guys who fish the south tip of the island at the inlet, and there you have to hike about 3/4s of a mile to get to it, and they do catch some bigger fish.
Where I fish, and where this guy was, in 18 years I've never caught or seen anyone catch anything other than just run of the mill stuff (whiting, spots, some blues and pomps if you are lucky, and an occasional nice black drum).

 

Here is my personal surf fishing gear and the dune I was laughing about having to haul a cart across.
It's about 8 feet up to the first flat level, then another 4 to the crossover, which is about 2 feet wide.
Less is more.

 

Dang it, Driftwood. I'm dealing with 115-degree heat indexes here. Quit posting those photos, they'll make me spend the rest of the morning Zillowing beach towns.

 

I want at least two rods, maybe three when I'm surf fishing. ... I want to try out a couple different troughs from the beach to find where they're at. Plus having one rod sucks, if you've ever had a reel go south while you're out there.

Plus I need to carry beers .... and a chair .... maybe a tackle box. .... probably some bait.

 

Also @Driftwood that's a nice ass flounder.

Is that a fish bite I see hanging from your puppy's mouth?

 

My personal best drum, caught out of the surf this spring on Ocacroke.

 

Yeah. I was just bottom fishing when I caught him. I always put Fish Bites one because that way when the shrimp comes off, you've still got bait.
I caught the flounder on a paddle tail.

 

I like fishing shrimp, but man it's annoying to cast and see your shrimp fly off. So yeah - I'll use fish bites if nothing else but to hold a shrimp in place. We also will pick up this thing string-like plastic wrap that helps keep the shrimp in place.

 

I think shrimp works better, but I will switch up to squid or cut mullet some times just because I think they they stay on the hook better.