Titusville, Florida Mosquito Lagoon January Kayak Fishing Trip

One of the first kayak fishing trips of the new year with my buddy Brendan.  Both of us were using Slayer SST lures in the molting and chicken off the chain colors.  Brendan was in his new(ish) Native Ultimate 14.5 and I was in my Jackson Big Tuna.  I just got a Shimano Saros reel and man it was like butter reeling anything in with that reel and also working my Slayer Lures.  Video is just over 2 minutes long Im still working on improving my video skills. 

Lures used for the day were Slayer SST molting and
chicken off the chain on a 1/16oz weighted Slayer 3/0 hook

me ( Jelly Jon ) with one of my Trout from the day aboard my
Jackson Kayak Big Tuna.

Mosquito Lagoon with a couple friends interested in Kayak Fishing

Nothing too fascinating caught today but figured Id post the video anyway since I had the footage :P just one minute long.

Kayak fishing even on the slowest smallest days still beats work I think Brendan and Patrick will agree.

Fun day, we will have to get the big ones next time.

Another night trip in the Mosquito Lagoon Tandem in the Big Tuna

While wondering when my next outing would be I received a call from Austin and Paul asking if I would like to do some night fishing with them in Titusville.  I had two of my friends Brendan and Mike recently ask me if they could check out the sport of kayak fishing so I decided tonight was as good a night as any other.  I ended up riding tandem with my buddy Mike and my other friend Brendan paddled a borrowed a Tarpon 160.  Little did I know my valentines day would come early... haha

It was a cold cold night when we decided to start our late night adventure.  We saw a few kayak anglers we knew on the water and broke off and met back up with them several times through the night.  For the most part everyone was skunked except on tiny trout.  We used an array of live and dead bait (no artificial bait) and finally my buddy Brendan hooked up to something.  This was his first hook up ever in a kayak so he at first exclaimed  "I think Im hooked up to that flats boat!!" but then he realized he was hooked up to a bull red.  After about a 20 minute battle he landed his 32" redfish.

Soon after the wind picked up and it felt like the temperature dropped about 30 degrees.  After freezing the whole way back to the put in paddling as fast as we could we were strapping the boats to our trucks and looking for who was open at 2am for a late dinner.  Check out the pictures below,

Brendan with his first Bull Red and also FIRST fish caught as a Kayak
Fisherman.  Hopefully everything from here on out is bigger! haha

Picture taken of Me and Mike in the Jackson Big Tuna from a Malibu
Stealth 14 captained by Austin.  Paul decided riding tandem is such a
magical moment it calls for a box of valentines day candy.

Fishing report Banana River Florida

who: Went out Sunday the 16th of December with a few fellow kayak fisherman from the SCKA kayak club.  Spent most of the day fishing with fellow anglers Wade and Michael but Paul and another guy later joined us on the return paddle.

conditions: The conditions when I checked online before were set to be 5-10mph from the south.  Once I hit the water it ended up being completely still until a little after noon a wind came from the south at around 5mph.  Throughout the day we took a very light almost misty rain about 3 separate times but none lasted for over 15 minutes.

lures/bait: For a while fellow kayak anglers have been talking about slayer soft plastics so I decided to give them a try.  Alan, Pepi and Redfish Chuck turned me onto the bait and while I was at Kayaks by Bo Chuck suggested a few to me to try.  On the 3/0 hook w/ 1/16 weighted hook I rigged the SSB molting and that is what I used most of the day.  I also did a few cast with the "chicken off the chain" colored SST.  All the fish I caught were on the SSB "molting" color though today.

SSB Slayer Lure Inc molting color

what happened: So Im still fairly new to kayak fishing however I ended up having one of my better days on the water today.  Hopefully partly due to how much Ive been learning lately but also maybe partly due to my new Slayer Lures.  You have your story I have mine.  I ended up catching my first snook, though he was pretty small and my other notable catches were two trout over 20", 21" and 22".  All in all Id say I had a pretty good day in my Jackson Big Tuna.

My first snook

My second 20"+ trout of the day

Picked up the NEW Jackson Big Tuna kayak

So Ive been in the market for a new fishing kayak lately and since Im somewhat partial to Jackson since Ive loved their whitewater boats so much since the company’s inception I decided to check out the Big Tuna.

Ive had the Cuda before but since I do offshore kayak fishing I really liked the idea of having a built in live well.  In addition to a live well itd be nice to take my wife Ally out with me in the same boat when we do freshwater so its easier to talk and hang out with our 3 year old daughter.  When I saw the Big Tuna could turn into a capable solo boat I knew I had to check it out.

Review with video to come.

Will do a comparison of the boats Ive paddled to this one to see if that helps anyone relate to it more.  I will compare it to my Tarpon, Cuda 14 and Stealth 14.  Obviously all of this will be based on my opinions and experiences only...

Addictive Fishing Tournament and Barbie/Princess rod fishing

Decided to try making a fishing video from the little bit of video I collected at the fishing tournament that I entered with Nick, Justin and a few other fishing buddies.  Still pretty new to creating video on fishing trips so I dont often remember to turn the camera on, the trip down and rigging part is much longer then the actual video of fishing.  Oh well, tried to make it enjoyable anyway.  Many fish were caught but none were very big or notable.