Your first Yak fish... when and where???

Airborne Angler · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:58 pm

I keep seeing all of these 1st fish in a yak threads and it got me thinking... for some of you "experienced" (i know better than to say older people haha)...

what was your first yak fish, when and where where you?

Mine was actually a 1.1 pound LMG bass, guadalupe river early 2009 in my faithful Pelican Castaway 100!!!

Mr. Green · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:25 pm

This was mine. Caught it summer of last year on Copano Bay (same place I got stuck the other day).

Airborne Angler · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:54 pm

nice!

here was my first haha

RedWolf · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:10 pm

First caught in a yak was a 37" bull red caught last Dec. My first caught using a kayak was a 4' blacktip "running baits" from the beach. Largest in the yak, 46" bull red, largest from a kayak run bait, 8'3" bull shark about 450# All of these were caught from High Island, McFadden Beach area.

M T Stringer · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:18 pm

After three long and frustrating months of trying for reds specifically, this was my first slot (24") caught on 30June09 at 2:13pm in a marsh off of Tilum Tatum Bayou...I haven't been the same since :lol:

I had a few flounder, rays and hardheads before that from GISP, but I didn't count those as official...I got a thing for redfish in the marsh... :mrgreen:

Since that day my skunk ratio has gone down, but I still have stinky days every once in a while... :oops:

edit...I neither claim to be experienced, nor an old salt.

bboren · **Posted:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:37 pm

I have NO PICS.. I was so excited when I first got my YAK, I hauled ass home(2hrs. away)grabbed my fishing stuff and took off….Got out there and was getting use to the feeling…I started to see movement in the water….DANG IT, I left all my plastics at home, I casted out anyway just getting the feel…and NO LIE sure as hell a Flounder couldn't resist, sure enough that was my first YAK FISH and been hooked every since, TRUE STORY!

Airborne Angler · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:41 am

Ok Ok Ok... I get it, everyone caught a big red or kick a$$ flounder, or a MASSIVE shark, and i was left with a small, but LMB haha.

awesome pics, and the flounder story was cool, i have had that happen to me using just a red colored hook! the fish love it!!!

Mojo227 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:11 pm

My first fish out of the yak was a 6" gizzard shad that I foul hooked if it makes you feel any better!

M.saxatilis · **Joined:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:07 pm **Posts:** 192

First yak trip: Devils River Sept 10

First yak fish caught: Devils River Sept 10; 7 inch small mouth bass, and there were a lot of them.

But I wouldn't advise goin there. It'll spoil you! :wink:

M.s

gutcheck · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:31 pm

I can relate H&W30. My first was an 8 inch sandbass. May not have been a slot red or twenty+ inch speck, but I sure was smiling. :mrgreen:

cliftonio · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:53 pm

SLP (Gulf side) Aug 2007

A small hardhead.....on a redfish magic!

First real fish was a BR Oct 2007 @ HI (between the piers)..........once I had paid more attention to the BTB posts and brought out the right leaders/hooks/bait!

Sanditos · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:30 pm

Sight-casting @ LHL. 24" red 2007.
Addicted!!
No therapy needed.

MONSTER · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:22 pm

I think mine was a couple of years ago.....a little hardhead in Christmas Bay.

My first nice fish was a bull red at High Island. It was a very rough day on the water, and I unclipped from my anchor so I could enjoy my first slay ride. Using braid, my line almost immediately severed another TKFers anchor rope, and then dragged me about 100yds. Successfully released and I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then, I had to paddle into the wind and waves to get back to my anchor. It took everything I had to get back to my float. I seriously considered abandoning my anchor and just heading for shore. Lesson learned....always consider the wind/waves. If you paddle/sleigh ride one way, you're gonna have to go back the other. Now I only take sleigh rides on big sharks and in moderate conditions.

joebeasley · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:10 pm

2lb bass last May at White Rock Lake.

Thinwater skinner · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:40 pm

I was in Dean's Yak School. Apr. '06 I think. caught a 18 inch spec on top water and the wind was blowing about 25 mph (maybe only 10 but at the coast it feels like 25). The wind will always blow when Dean has school. No picks of the catch. I was lucky just to stay in the yak.

Mythman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:04 pm

Flouinder, 2006, El Jardin around the pilings.

SAPDBLUE · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:51 am

About a 12in speck on a paddle tail on some flats just south of the JFK causeway. Addicted ever since.

Tombo · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:18 am

Small Red Grand Isle LA

ZR2Chevy22 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:18 pm

My first fish in my Ride 135 was a 24" Redfish
2nd fish was a 3 foot eel

My first fish in my Hobie Outback was a 16" rat red
2nd fish was a 16" flounder

Andrew

RedWolf · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:27 pm

I know I posted earlier, but first in Frenzy was a 37" bull red. First in the PA was a 21" slot red.

davethered · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:42 pm

my first fish out of my kayak was a white bass on cypress creek during the white bass run and i was hooked mater of fact goin to lake woodlands tomorrow

Airborne Angler · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:17 pm

ZR2Chevy22 wrote:

My first fish in my Ride 135 was a 24" Redfish
2nd fish was a 3 foot eel

My first fish in my Hobie Outback was a 16" rat red
2nd fish was a 16" flounder

Andrew

quite the variety i see!

nicktm103 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:47 pm

Caught this beautiful hardhead over Spring break. Can't wait to catch some real fish once I finish this first year of law school...

yellow140t · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:59 pm

Mine was a 15 inch hybride striper at braunig lake maidan voyage march 2010 iwas trolling next to the dam.

fishinmachine · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:15 pm

My first yak-caught fish was a 14" Atlantic spadefish caught near the petroleum platform about 2 miles off of Bob Hall pier on North Padre Island last summer while fishing in my 10' Pelican Apex 100. Caught on a 1/2 oz. Kastmaster spoon with a white bucktail on the treble. Two kayaks later, and I can't wait to get after the gulf fish again this summer. See Cast'n'blast's thread on the BTB forum about the Kingfish tournament in July!!!!!

FM