re: The Official Kayak Thread

Not sure your location but this is in Katy and ya need bonus “beer holder”


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have yall heard anything about the 3 Waters Big Fish?

also would yall recommend going with a 12 ft over a 10ish ft if i plan doing some inshore marsh fishing?

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The 3 waters kayaks are decent. Bottom to middle of the road from a build quality standpoint. Coming out of a factory in China (as are many fishing kayaks so that's not necessarily a bad thing). My main concern is their service dept should anything break. But in my 12 years of yak fishing, I've called a service dept once so maybe that's not an issue. Definitely good bang for your buck.

10' vs 12' is all about hull design. All things being equal, yes a 12' is better in most cases but there are plenty of well designed 10-11' kayaks I'd take over 12'+ boats.

At the $1k ballpark, I would be looking at the Old town topwater lineup, a Native Ultimate 12, and whatever Jackson is putting out in that ballpark.

We had a good tournament at PAC yesterday. Only 22 people showed, but there was quite a bit of fish caught. The wind and current took over mid morning, but at least the rain held off. I had a limit of Reds with one right at 26" and 2 Trout. I only weighed in 1 Trout because the other was so close to 12" that I could've been DQ'd. Lol

Btw, if you want to test out a pedal system all you have to do is go to PAC and fish the shrimp nets. Then pedal back to the launch. Especially on a South Wind.

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fishing the power lines and then getting back to the launch on a north wind and falling tide

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This is the reason why I bought my Wildy
Was around mid Feb a couple yrs ago trying to cross the main channel in my Ascend
Wind blowing 20mph, tide falling
went shopping after that

And nice showing Lefty!

When my drive broke I don’t know how the hell I was able to paddle back to the launch against that current.

I like the light northeast winds on a rising tide. Kill em everytime in one spot in the fall

Not going to lie, given the weather forecast and my history at PAC I had zero expectations for Saturday other than to get wet at some point.

Thankfully with the exception of the wind picking up later in the day the weather held off well throughout the day, I was able to get my 3 trout(4 actually) by around 10:30am and started looking for reds. Caught my first one(~25") shortly after on a topwater then spent the rest of the day having reds just plain miss. On one bank about a 1/8 mile long I had atleast 8 fish aggressively go after it then miss completely. Swapped to a bigger topwater and on the first cast caught my second to complete my stringer but it was only about 19". Thinking I had figured it out with the bigger topwater I kept fishing the same area only to be met with another 5 or so fish completely whiff at it. Kind of frustrating to have that many fish go after it and never be able to upgrade. I was content with a full stringer and staying dry throughout the day though.

Yes a Coosa FD