Hello From Virginia!!!!

Yeah, I know I'm not Nor Cal, but LOVE kayak fishing.  I typically fish some small lakes in my area, the Tidal Potomac River and its Tributaries, Some smallmouth fishing on some of our other rivers as well as the Lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.  I was directed over here because I asked some questions on another site.  I'll be in Mountain View next week and was wondering if I should bother packing my travel rod.  If I have to be at work by 9am (remember I'm on East coast time and will probably be up early)  Will I have time to get a little fishing in before work?  I was down in San Diego back in April and went fishing every morning before work and afternoon after work.  I had a great time throwing carolina rigged gulp sand worms for Perch and even managed a Spotfin Croaker.  So I'm hoping you guys can give me some info...oh and if someone had an extra yak and wanted to drag a visitor out for a couple hours I definitely wouldn't get my feelings hurt .

Oh, I currently paddle a Malibu X-Factor, but have an Ocean Kayak Frenzy I keep specifically for yakking baits out for sharks at the beach as well as just an all around spare to take people out.  In march I'm adding a new Kayak to the fleet.  I'll be getting one of the following:  Jackson Big Tuna, Old Town Predator, Native Slayer 14 or a Native Slayer Propel.  I haven't decided yet, I still have a couple months to make up my mind.

Welcome, FishAholic!

Feel free to post some of your excursions here. We love seeing fishing reports from all over the world!

Welcome to NCKA FishAholic929 

Yeah, I know I'm not Nor Cal, but LOVE kayak fishing.  I typically fish some small lakes in my area, the Tidal Potomac River and its Tributaries, Some smallmouth fishing on some of our other rivers as well as the Lower Potomac, Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.  I was directed over here because I asked some questions on another site.  I'll be in Mountain View next week and was wondering if I should bother packing my travel rod.  If I have to be at work by 9am (remember I'm on East coast time and will probably be up early)  Will I have time to get a little fishing in before work?  I was down in San Diego back in April and went fishing every morning before work and afternoon after work.  I had a great time throwing carolina rigged gulp sand worms for Perch and even managed a Spotfin Croaker.  So I'm hoping you guys can give me some info...oh and if someone had an extra yak and wanted to drag a visitor out for a couple hours I definitely wouldn't get my feelings hurt .

Oh, I currently paddle a Malibu X-Factor, but have an Ocean Kayak Frenzy I keep specifically for yakking baits out for sharks at the beach as well as just an all around spare to take people out.  In march I'm adding a new Kayak to the fleet.  I'll be getting one of the following:  Jackson Big Tuna, Old Town Predator, Native Slayer 14 or a Native Slayer Propel.  I haven't decided yet, I still have a couple months to make up my mind.

Welcome FishAholic, I am ex-MD easternshore, probably know some of the same people at TKAA or CBKA. Saw that picture of the snakehead, a lot of my kayak friends back in MD like a good "snakehead hunt". Did you cut it up into steaks, understand it is good eating. I have an extra OK prowler, I am in Alameda, feel free to send PM see if your schedule fits for a trip on the bay.

Good stuff!  PM has been sent with a few more details of my trip.  I fished the TKAA Charity Tournament in Sept for the first time and will be back again next year, even though I faced 25kt winds while prefishing as well as tournament day itself.  I passed up the CBKA Tournament a couple weeks earlier, with twin 3 year olds at home I can't stick my wife with chasing the boys too many weekends too close together .  Hope


There's the video of the day I caught the snakehead, I think the actual snakehead part is about 1:30 or so.  I tossed a weightless senko under a deadfall, twitched a couple times and it slammed it.  It is kinda comical, it buried itself in the grass and I had to use the paddle to pole myself to it so I could actually land the fish.