So Yak Guys....How Was Your Season?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Too damn busy between work and life this year. I am going to try and get out more next year
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What he said.....
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[Diggin Jiggin]

I do so much striper fishing from shore that I don't even try and use my kayak for that. I get burnt out on stripers so I try to target a few new kinds of fish each year from the kayak as a change of pace. Last year I tried weakfish and fluking.

This year I did a little trout, tog and albie fishing in it. Nice thing is its just to try something different, so size doesn't really matter.

[FishermanTim]

Salt.....not once!

Fresh..... I had a very good season, even with the challenge of fishing low water conditions.

Now with the local waters showing their first skim ice, I can't wait to hit the hard water!!!!

[hq2]

Fair amount of yakking, mediocre fishing. Tried new areas near Odiorne in NH, Fore River, Back River, North River. Mostly caught 20-25 inch schoolies at each location, no keepers from yak. Each day OTW, however, was just about perfect; great weather, great people, great paddling. Always good just to get out.

Next year will probably dial back on stripers, focus on other stuff (blues, togs, lakers), like I did during the moratorium (sigh). Hope I do as well on them now as I did back then.

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by hq2

...Next year will probably dial back on stripers, focus on other stuff (blues, togs, lakers), like I did during the moratorium (sigh). Hope I do as well on them now as I did back then.

I had some good fish, lost some good ones as well, and even caught (not snagged, but hooked) a huge adult snapping turle that decided to try and eat my Zoom rubber minnow lure.

You will probably find, like I did, that more and more people are turning from the salt to the fresh for their on-the-water fishing fix!
Doesn't mean you can't/won't catch fish, but rather that you will have to use the same tactic of locating fish as you did in the salt.

Oh, and bring your camera because you never know what you will see, be it landscape or wildlife photo opportunities.
(I need to transfer my photos from my phone to another storage device to free up the phones memory.)

just some things to consider for next season....

[hq2]

You will probably find, like I did, that more and more people are turning from the salt to the fresh for their on-the-water fishing fix!
Doesn't mean you can't/won't catch fish, but rather that you will have to use the same tactic of locating fish as you did in the salt.

Yeah, I'm pretty psyched to go for some mid-summer lakers. Been hearing some good reports about some places, and my check of the charts/maps shows obvious locations where they should be. Really looking forward to trying for them.