How Do You Define "Skinny Water?"

[Roccus7]

I know it's all relative, I'm sure Oldmud would consider 20 fathoms "skinny water" when BFT fishing, but how do you folks define it? My definition is "Too shallow to enter without raising the engine until the trim lift switches over to main lift, which in my case is about 4 ft. Mind you, I bring my 22' boat into areas that I shouldn't, but if it's a mud bottom and the tide is coming in, I don't care. What's the worse that can happen, I give my bottom a mud bath??

Caught this 29" bad girl last night in a muddy cove on incoming with less than 3' of water in it. Just about every fish I've filleted here have grass shrimp in them and they're smaller here than LI, these are less than 1" long. The bass here eat so many most of the ones I catch have mud around their teeth.

 

[chunkster]

Nice fish it also has to do with sight fishing.

Fishing the skinny is a florida flats term used in the glades.
The history behind it is . . . . .

I took the family, wife and kids to blue bank.

 

[Rick67]

Under 20’ I consider skinny. As far as trolling in a kayak. Over 20’ that’s when experience is needed.

 

[Chinacat]

Under 20’ I consider skinny. As far as trolling in a kayak. Over 20’ that’s when experience is needed.

Not sure i agree with that
Given not much here on the South Shore of LI is over 20' I have a hard time calling the entire south shore bays "skinny"
I go with under 5' but thats just me....

 

[wader]

when you're seeing bottom & just making it through without the keel hitting bottom

 

[WhatKnot]

And you are kicking up some mud.

 

[pequa1]

when I run aground on my kayak...

 

[chunkster]

"A flats fisherman" "Fishing the flats"

 

[BennyV]

I’d say 5 feet or less. Used to fish it often in my little yellow Jon dory.

 

[chunkster]

The Greek guy that lives in Italy.

Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician,
physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although
few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one
of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.





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