The new kayak trailer

I’ve been searching for a kayak trailer for a while now and I finally found one that fit my budget and design. She needs some modifying but it will work perfect for hauling two yaks when finished. I thought I would do a little before, during, and after for those who are interested.

The trailer started as a catamaran sailboat trailer and I picked it up for two hundred dollars. The frame and wheels are galvanized so they are in good shape. The leaf springs and wheel studs need to be replaced. The wheel hubs came with bearing buddies already on them and are in good shape. I removed the cross bars that held the hulls of the sailboat so now the trailer is a little over four feet wide. My plan is to make it a double decker and make the tong removable so that it fits in the garage.

Morning wade

Sunday morning I took a solo wading trip to my hole in west bay and it was very productive. When I arrived at my spot the wind was dead and the water was boiling from schools of mullet being chased by bull reds. Bull reds were not on my menu so I just watched the action while I waded over to a marsh drain I like to fish. While I was in route to the drain there were some rat reds destroying grass shrimp on the shore line. I decided to make a cast with my skitter-walk and it was hammered by a two spotted rat red. Once inside of the drain I was shocked by the number of red fish that were in there. My second cast landed a twenty two inch red and the action was non stop until around eleven. A few times I caught myself just watching all the action instead of fishing. Fifteen reds from twenty to twenty seven inches were caught inside of the drain in knee deep water. The baits of choice were a chrome and black skitter-walk and a red and white kicker fish bait shad stick There were numerous times red fish would swim right up next to me and not get spooked, I guess they thought I was a pole or something. There were a few times reds would come completely out of the water and land on the bank trying to get shrimp. It was a very nice day to be on the water, and a shame I had to enjoy it by myself. All but three fish were released, and the three fish were mighty tasty.

There were a few strange things that happened Sunday morning. There was a large sea turtle that hung out with me for a while, not that strange but kind of cool. Then there were stingrays flying out of the water chasing shrimp and mullet, I’ve never seen that before. The best one of the day was the small waterspout that ran over me, it was neat but it got me pretty wet.

I guess I could be more Specific about the hole, I was fishing the south shore line of west bay by the pass.

Wife appreciation day

Tatum (My wonderful wife) and I headed down to Tabbs bay today for her first trip in her new (My old) Hobie Outback. We arrived at our launch spot a little early so we decided to hang out in the truck for a while and talk some fishing. When the sky started to lighten up we made our way to the water and started fishing. Tatum rigged up a Gulp shrimp on a popping cork and made her first cast. With a few pops of the cork it was gone and she was bowedup. After a quick battle we discovered a big slimy gafftop on the other end and of course I was nominated to remove it. While scoping out the area a large amount of nervous bait caught our attention, so we went to investigate. We approached the grassy shore line the as sun started peaking over the trees and we witnessed numerous flounder coming completely out of the water chasing mullet. While watching the flounder go crazy a shrimp fly’s up in the air next to me. As the shrimp was falling towards the water I looked down and there was a little Redfish waiting for the shrimp to land. When the shrimp got close to the waters surface the Redfish came out like a rocket and the shrimp was gone. After a few casts with a super spook it was smashed and I bowedup with a fat twenty inch Redfish.

Tatum started throwing a Gulp shrimp on a ¼ ounce jig head and it didn’t take long until she was catching reds. As the morning went on we caught some more Redfish, Flounder, and Tatum was killing the Sand Trout.


Today was a great day to be on the water; even thou Tatum caught more fish than me. All fish were caught in one to four feet of water over mud and shell.