re: Anyone here had any success kayak fishing in Florida?

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Specifically, in the Destin area.

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Yes. If you are fishing the beachside, I recommend getting up early and fishing the trough in between sand bars with gold spoons. I use a spinning reel spooled with 20 lb mono and use a 30 lb fluorocarbon leader that is about 3 feet long (the reason is that blue fish have teeth and will break you off if you don't have a leader).

You can expect to catch redfish, bluefish, ladyfish and pompano.

Something we have done in the past few years is to put in on the back bay (there is a free public boat launch that is really on good for kayaks and really small boats on the back bay (cannot remember the name).

We fish at night in the back bay around the dock lights on private docks from kayaks. We typically use DOA shrimp under a popping cork.

Expect to catch speckled trout and redfish around the docks.

It is kind of spooky to be in the bay at night, but as long as you are no further out than 300 yards from shore (which you only need to be about 20 yards out to fish the docks), you can stand up and walk to shore if you needed to.

Also, keep a head lamp on at all times so you don't get run over by a drunken boater while doing this type of fishing at night.