Good afternoon,
Today was my first time kayak fishing, pretty much an explorative venture to work out some kinks. And boy, were there kinks
. That being said, it was a fun day.
Put in Big Lagoon about 0700 and didn't go too far from where I launched, just sticking in pier lanes. No huge action... tried topwater with no success and was steady with cut pinfish.
My question.. I caught two species I haven't seen before. They were both about 10", the first had a body shaped like a pyramid down the length of his body. His belly was light colored and dark on top. Whenever I pulled him above the water his belly would inflate pretty big and then deflate once I put him back in the water.
The second was brown with black vertical stripes about an inch thick. His body was more like a bass... I looked at an identification chart and the closest resemblance was a jewfish?
I know pictures would be helpful, but I didn't take a camera. Other than that, I just caught several pinfish and one small speckled trout. I can't seem to get over that hump into slot reds and legal speckled trout.
Today was my first time kayak fishing, pretty much an explorative venture to work out some kinks. And boy, were there kinks
. That being said, it was a fun day.Put in Big Lagoon about 0700 and didn't go too far from where I launched, just sticking in pier lanes. No huge action... tried topwater with no success and was steady with cut pinfish.
My question.. I caught two species I haven't seen before. They were both about 10", the first had a body shaped like a pyramid down the length of his body. His belly was light colored and dark on top. Whenever I pulled him above the water his belly would inflate pretty big and then deflate once I put him back in the water.
The second was brown with black vertical stripes about an inch thick. His body was more like a bass... I looked at an identification chart and the closest resemblance was a jewfish?
I know pictures would be helpful, but I didn't take a camera. Other than that, I just caught several pinfish and one small speckled trout. I can't seem to get over that hump into slot reds and legal speckled trout.
