JAM’s ADVENTURES

Went out the past 2 days solo.. Managed to get 4 yesterday and 2 today.. yesterday a 6o to 70 pound Cow Nosed Ray decided he was hungry and ate my GULP ALIVE Shrimp..  He proceed to tow me around the sound for 45 minutes.  All I wanted to do is get back my Braided line cause that stuff is expensive.  Managed to get over him put the rod straight up and down and grabbed the spool and broke him off @ the Leader.. Figure I go bout 200 pounds yak goes bout 60 figure 10 pounds of crap with me, that 270 pounds this Creature was towing around on 8 pound 1 pound braided trout line.. Pretty Awesome.. Got my Hatteras Sleigh Ride …. Until next time JAM out

Went out today after work,  SE winds 10 knots went to a couple holes and visited what I call Water Moccasin Island.. Place totally looks freakin SNAKEY.. But as most of you know I am the inquisitive type and love to check out new places..  Hung out a bit got everything right headed to the 3rd hole of the day.  Casted for about a half an hour nothing.. Moved 10 feet closer to another Island, and let the games begin.

Caught 3 short flounder then a nice Speck.  Kept the Speck and moved to another spot.. got a real nice over slot Puppy Drum… Let him live and made the paddle back in 15 to 20 knot head winds.. Lets just say nice workout today was a ways out there today.. Well till next time .. JAM out

Went out today  solo not with to many expectations, but folks that’s why they call it fishing.  Water temps are on the rise and thing are getting fishy again.. Paddled to the Normal Spots and fished a little here and a little there.. Mainly Drift fishing Casting and retrieving while drifting the flats.  Then she went down using, a little ultra-light rod and 8 pound one pound diameter line it was on.  Not under anchor free drifting.. Kept pressure on the Fish while I grabbed my net with the other free hand.  Netted the Joker.. New it weren’t a Citation but new she went around 4 pounds.. Brought here to the scales @ Dillions  4 Pounds.. Would have been paperwork a few years ago but now it takes a 5 Pound-er… Well this is just the beginning.. I see more of these and bigger in our future.. Until Next time.. JAM out

A late season Nor’easter has kept us hemmed in.. The good news is this should help to keep the Cobia in our neck of the woods for a while.  The thought process is if the water north of us is not what they like then they will hangaround.  Other side of the coin is that if they get to the gulf stream the they will ride that north and bye bye Cobia .  I like choice number one better..

Have not been able to get out in the YAK this week @ all but Thurs. looks like a winner.   Of course every thing will be stirred up and moved around, but that’s the fun of trout fishing.. Going to find them in different areas of the sound in different conditions.  I guess from the outside looking in trying to out-smart something that has the brain the size of a dime,  MIGHT not be the most sane thing to do with ones time.  But its a lot cheaper than therapy.. 

Looking forward to the next trip as I got a new seat for the YAK  its an APEX 1, from a good friend of mines company up the beach.. He’s got everything to get ya on the water from new YAK’s to the most recent accessory’s here is a link to his site..      http://customfishingadventures.com/ 

Got a good little storey for ya being I can’t get out.. A good friend of mine is workin in Fla, over in the panhandle on OkaloosaIsland in Ft. Walton Beach.  I have been there a dozen times or so and it is a beautiful place to be.. Rich some of you know him as OBX-TACO took his YAK with him on this trip and got hooked up with the Gulf Coast Kayak Association, and entered a YAK Fishing Tourney.. He had a blast and did great out of 126 entrants Rich placed 4 th.. Another Friend of ours Bob Boston took 3rd here are some pic’s of the event.. Congrats to Rich and Bob.. till next time JAM OUT 

On the 12 of June last year I was lucky enough to catch what most fishermen call the Apex of their fishing career.. Got my first Blue Marlin.. Have been waiting for the guy in Frisco to get back from Hawaii to get some ink to commemorate the event.  Gonna get a nice Blue One with the date caught and Hatteras NC below it, pretty stoaked.   All of the Tattoo’s on me are related to a personal event in my life, they are related to something special that has happened to me.  The true meaning of TATTOO.. Way way back in the day that’s what the cavemen and on have done.. Documented their lives on their skin.. Well here goes another chapter.. Chapter 14.. Pics to come around 3 today.. JAM OUT

All the beach BS has a lot of folks down but I say screw’em.. I gonna have fun in every way possible .. Got up with Phil aka Pumpkin Boy and said lets go for it while your down on the Island,  screw all the negativity…  Sat. it blew and he went for it solo while I was @ work.  Sun it was due to lay out and come around to the NE as  the day progressed..

Sun. Met @ the spot and launched the YAK,  first spot nothin.. Kept headin NW got to the second spot Picked up a small trout and a small pup. 

Kept movin to the spot where we MOHAWKED them Wed.  and fella’s and ladies it was on.. One after the other 15 to 18 inch PUPPY DRUM on ultra-light trout rods.. It was a BLAST after bout 20 fish a piece I stoped counting.. We caught them for about 2 hours and it started to wain out…

  So we kept movin NW in a NE wind got to the next spot and Pumpkin Boy nails a nice 14 inch Speck.. Bam then I hook up then he hooks up and it goes on for a while.. Catching nothing but Specks up to 18 and 1/2 inches..

Phils 18 1/2 Speck

Kept a bunch so Pumpkin Boy can make his wife a Nice Speckled Trout Dinner when he gets home Here are some of the pics..

Great Day Great Friends and a Time to remember for the rest of my life..

Had a blast Phil we’ll do it again soon…   

Until next Time JAM out

We Wacked’em and Stacked’Em had two friends go out with me today on a YAK Adventure went to the usual places and seen no faces.. We proceeded to put an absolute hurting on the Puppy Drum.. And didn’t do to bad on the Speckled Trout.. All said and done Tommy had 12 Puppy Drum and 2 Trout his buddy had 11 Puppy  Drum and a Trout and I had 11 Puppy Drum and 2 Trout.. We were all over them kept movin when they would move it was a great day on the PamlicoSound..Could not ask for a better day off launched @ noon or so and left them biting.. Until next time JAM out