TheSaltyVet wrote:
It's frustrating to deal with but that's life I guess.
Hopefully my new battery holds up.
Hopefully yours does too lol.
I plan on going to choko again when the water temp goes down some, feel like the fishing may be better.
One of my bucket list fishing things is to go out in the gulf stream out of Lauderdale or Miami or whatever and fish for pelagics.
See dudes do it in yaks and it looks super awesome.
Wish we had that kind of offshore fishing on this coast.
Our deal here is the inshore I suppose but with all this fresh water, algae and red tide...
Yep, batteries is part of maintenance for us car owners just one thing like tires and oil ya have to replace.
Offshore you read about is one thing but getting out to the gulf stream is another. Most kayakers you read about are launching off Dania Beach or Pompano Beach and fishing what I would call near shore fishing or areas boaters bottom fish and seldom get to the actual West edge of the gulf stream itself. The stream is usually a good 3 or 4 miles offshore from Dania, a little closer in Pompano.
The kayakers are basically fishing structure, wrecks or bottom, and some get out to 350 to 500'. They do catch Dolphin, Sailfish, Wahoo occasionaly but more often the big catch is AmberJack, various Tuna/Bonita, and KingFish once in a while a keeper Grouper.
When we go in the boat offshore we generally don't even drop a line until we hit 750' area and thats only if we see birds, floatsam, or a weedline or big patch, which is about 5 miles off and we usually venture out about 11 plus miles where its 1000' -1200' depths.
Our inshore fishing in Ft. Lauderdale is non-existant, Miami's Biscayne Bay is the closest thing we have but that's either search for Bonefish which has been rather futile lately by kayak, some small Trout, a Snook here and there, and maybe a Tarpon.
Soon as my friends get back from vacation I plan to fish more of Choko area.