Maiden voyage Collins Lake 3/26

I took the kayak on its maiden voyage this morning.  Rabid Angler and I launched at Collins Lake and set out trolling.  He and his Hobie peddling, and me in my Tarpon paddling.  Being this was my first time out it was a real awakening.   I found that I need to rethink some of the places I put things in the yak.  It’s hard to reach your lunch in the far forward hatch without going for a swim to get it.  You need to remember to put a rope on the boat to tie off with.  You need to play around with the seat adjustments before you are in deep water.  You need to loosen the rod holder track knob so you can reach the rod holder, again….in deep water.  Well that was some of the list.  The boat paddles/glides really good.  It isn’t as laterally stable as I thought it would be but time on the water cured any apprehension.  I didn’t have much luck trolling so I thought I’d give drifting a try for a while.  No luck there but my arms didn’t get tired.   We fished until 1 PM and the only luck we had were 2 SDR’s on Rabids ride.  When we retrieved and asked around the general consensus was it was a poor fishing day.  A few photos for your  approval…

Rabid sneaking up on a fish.



Not a lot of room here.  Changes are coming.



Come on bobber.......bob!



Yours truely..........yak's christened.

    Thanks for invite for the Hook up Kokoloco. Even though it was poor fishing it was fun. Next time for sure.

 Here's a great way to end the day at Collins Lake

 

 Rocky Road for me 

 

Red bobber blues... go light and have fun!

Sounds like a great time on the water, congrats on the new boat.

Great report anyway.  Best of luck next time - the ice cream looks good.   

Approved all the way!!!
Very smart move on christening the Tarpon.
The fish/es will come in time.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Nice yak! I hope to upgrade to soon the Tarpon 120 from my 100. I'd like to get out on Collins sometime this weekend if the weather isn't too terrible.

Hey Sam, nice boat bro!
Glad you got it wet.
Now you gotta set it up for those Berry kokes!
You guys will get the fish next time.

Heres a crazy but true Collins Lake fact: The lakes Annual Ice Creams sales cover every employees salary for the year!

Nice report, thanks.  plan on hitting Collins a lot more this year, see ya OTW

Approved!

Thanks for the report.  You'll slay em next time.

Part of the fun in fishing on a kayak is that you can make plenty of adjustment on your kayak that make sense for you. Once you have all that squared away, I'm sure you'll be catching tons of fish on your next trip. Thanks for the report and pictures.

Jedmo

Thanks for all the feedback.  I know I'm in the right place now.  I've done some adjustments to a few things and I'm near ready for those Berry koks.  Thanks again to all that responded.

Sam

Fantastic report and great pictures. Family and I are headed up there this  Monday-Thursday for a little R&R. If any of you are up there this coming week, stop by camp site 108. We'll be there, or on the water.