Liveline a snapper in August !

[pequa1]

Once you yak, you rarely go bak. 3 dozen "paddles" to date vs. 3 gas wasting excursions on the "stinkboat."
That said, I have now taken home this year over 2 dozen of these hard fighting, delicious beauties, including this 23"er this morning before the Saturday "boat parade" started. They say weakfish are cyclic, and I will be one unhappy camper if this cycle peters out too soon. Got an 18"er first and before the Saturday "boat parade" and onshore wind picked up, both fish on livelined snappers. After losing several fish over a three day span, "whatever they were", probably blues, on J hooks and circles, I used a treble to liveline a snapper this morning. I normally don't but with the snappers of barbecue size already, at least the ones I got over the last few days, any fish able to engulf one is coming home for dinner. (Rich Johnson of the defunct The Fishing Line always raved about trebles, but never discussed the disadvantage of gut hooking a short.)

 

[longcast]

Nice weak!! Glad you got out before the traffic built up. Hopefully that body of fish lingers the rest of the summer!

 

[pequa1]

Nice weak!! Glad you got out before the traffic built up. Hopefully that body of fish lingers the rest of the summer!

It did last year. I approach each spring with trepidation as i just know it won’t last

 

[Macks]

Nice going,always a chance of a big fluke hitting the snapper to,like the seat in your yak,is it half way comfortable?

 

[Hunter704]

Nice fish ??you been solid with the weakfish

 

[pequa1]

Nice going,always a chance of a big fluke hitting the snapper to,like the seat in your yak,is it half way comfortable?

I haven't had a keeper since June, all shorts since. When I alluded to Rich Johnson, livelining snappers with a treble was his method for keeper fluke. Regarding the seat, its a rare morning kayak fishing when I am still on the backbay past 11AM. (I usually fish 730 to 1030 or so.) at 70 my ass no longer has a decent cushion of is own but this seat isn't bad. This airstream (?) that Hurricane equips its yaks with is certainly cheaper than the 200 bucks I had to spend on my first Hurricane (Phoenix 140) which came unadorned, but its almost as comfortable. Of course that Phoenix seat came with rodholders with tubes so skinny that only a safety flag or a child's sunfish rig would fit) and zippered pockets which although I put stuff in, never used. This seat came screwed down but Lydia McGee, possibly the best customer service person in the business, explained how some unscrewed it and replaced the screw locations with velcro which is what I did. Waiting for the seat pad to dry out when you want to fish the next morning again was not for me! Having hamstring and sciatica problems this year for the first time, but more of a problem driving a car than fishing off my Skimmer 128.

 

[live bait]

Rich Johnson now does fishing reports on a local FM radio station out of Sag Harbor. WLNG 92.1 on the FM dial. " Know where the fish are, not where they have been"
John

 

[pequa1]

Rich Johnson now does fishing reports on a local FM radio station out of Sag Harbor. WLNG 92.1 on the FM dial. " Know where the fish are, not where they have been"
John

Yes, I heard one of them. He didn't have anything close to where I fish, kayak or bay boat and it was, as most reports are, in the past. Whether its the LIFisherman, Stripers Online, or our reports herein, they really only give you a general idea as to what species to fish for and a very general idea (hopefully) as to where. I did like his TV show years ago though.