Another Kayak Hunt w pics

[Tradtical Commando]

Man thats awesome! I am located in BR and I was just talking to a buddy about taking our kayaks out to Cat Island and do some scouting around.

[Gen273]

cool post, thanks!

[John146]

Originally posted by Rob W.:
[QB] Kayak= Vessel used for taking pictures and leisure fishing.

Canoe= Meat hauling craft of the Traditional bowhunter.          

[John146]

Ron,
A 4-5 day trip like that sounds like the way to do it. No load like that going in a yak that's for sure.
They had a guy posted about a trip down the 11 Point River he is on right now for about a week. I have to do that one day.

[Brock]

yeah I took more than I needed given the other 6 guys I was meeting on the river...but have a hard time relying on anyone else when I can do it myself.  Fewer clothes, smaller cooler...pack everything I can in cooler and have dry bags in case I make meat. LOL....and carry water in containers on way out too to help with weight up front or you will spin like a top from wind on bow. LOL

Thinking about a Native Slayer 14.5 or Jackson Gilroy/Cuda setup too for trips...but only used canoes my entire life....used to having the ability to haul loads if needed.    

Ought to join PBS and join us on the hog hunt this Feb 2014 again....


Here i am paddling out on last day...if I would have filled my water containers up again even with river water my bow would not have been so high....or lose 40lbs myself and help on the other end. LOL

 

[Jerry Jeffer]

I really like those kayak set ups, but I'm going to agree with Rob W. However, if you are using a kayak, then you have a cool rig.

[John146]

Canoes are fine when you have the depth of water that you guys are in but there is a reason that in South LA people invented pirougues. Basinboy had a post a while back and he had killed a doe using a pirougue to get back into an area.

Canoes will "wear you out" trying to get it over and through some of the swamp that we hunt in. In the bayou I am in now it would be fine but the feeder creek I go into I am pushing over to many fallen trees to use a canoe.

If I choose to purchase a water craft for where I hunt, I would purchase the pirougue, which lets you carry a lot because of the open inside and yet it drafts a lot shallower. The flat bottom is also much stabler than a canoe and you can stand and push pole through stuff a canoe would never go.

The yak is borrowed so it offers me the chance to see if this type of hunting will warrant a purchase of something that fits where I hunt.

[Day Dreamer]

I love using my rig, one of these days I'll be towing a deer.

[Rob W.]

Originally posted by John146:

Originally posted by Rob W.:
[QB] Kayak= Vessel used for taking pictures and leisure fishing.

Canoe= Meat hauling craft of the Traditional bowhunter.              [/b]

I hope you do buddy! I would like to get a yak too.

A couple weeks ago I hunted with a guy in a full kevlar 16' Wenonah. Way out of my price range but so sweet. Felt like we weren't even touching the water compared to mine.

Day dreamer that is a nice rig!

[Brock]

I take my 16.5 foot canoe in water as shallow as 6 inches....I have to get in the center if alone but doable.  LOL  If any shallower I get out and float it through the skinny water.  I chase redfish all day long in the canoe....but am looking at a Jackson Gilroy or Cuda for even skinnier water.  

[Jeff Roberts]

Good looking yaks and canoes. Here is mine.    

[John146]

Day Dreamer- That is a VERY nice rig!

Jeff, I love that Yak on the left in your picture. Seen some guys fishing the marshes for Redfish in those things standing up.

[John146]

Ron, That is a classic looking picture. That sure is a load your carrying in that canoe.

Tell me more about that hunt you guys do in February. Can you send me some info by e-mail?

[elkken]

Get pics, very interesting post ... thanks for sharing. Anyone do this in cold weather ?

[elkken]

oops ... double post

[Brock]

mine was in February 2013...5-15mph winds...temps at night in 28-34* range....60s during day.  Not cold to some.....freezing cold to others depending on where you are from.  Here in south ...that is cold.  

[Brock]

Originally posted by John146:
Ron, That is a classic looking picture. That sure is a load your carrying in that canoe.

Tell me more about that hunt you guys do in February. Can you send me some info by e-mail?

yeah the biggest load is in the stern...     will send you a PM on trip

[Jeff Roberts]

The yak on the left in my pic is a Coosa and the one on the trailer is a Cuda. Can stand in either one but I do my hunting and bowfishing out of the Coosa.

[reddogge]

For load carrying capacity I had a 17'3" Old Town Tripper, #1,500 lb capacity. My son and I did many a 3 day float trips on the Shenandoah River in VA with it over the years. Now it's being used by my 3 grandsons. I gave them an old 2hp Suzuki and bracket so paddling is done for.

[ChuckC]

Brock... hehe around here that's shorts weather !

ChuckC