5/13/08 Update

The constant high pressures, bright sunshine, and dry air finally gave way to some humiudity and cloud cover, but still no rain. But the improvement in weatherfronts was enough to catch this beauty. The fishing was fantastic on the St John's River & Lake George for a few days while the winds switched to the southwest as a front came through........... but "dry" again. The dry weather has caused quite a few brush fires in Florida. The sunshine has been so persistent that even smoke from nearby brushfires can block the sun and cause the fish to "turn on". Last year, on May 2nd, I caught a bigger bass over ten pounds on the FROG when a distant wildfire blocked the sun for a couple hours in the afternoon & dropped ashes on the water which excited the fish for awhile as they were interpreting the ashes as an insect hatch. I spent most of April fishing with a 5 weight flyrod because the "bite" was so lite with all of the high pressure. Two years ago in May I caught a 12 pound bass with the 5 weight fly rod and a small slider popper when we were also suffering with long term high pressure systems. If you can't get out on the few good weather fronts (cloudy, humid weather), fishing with finesse baits on fly rods or spinniunmg tackle will be fun, catch you a lot of fish and sometimes even a big one. This fish below came from that open pocket of water just behind me.

Caught by Capt Ken on May 10, 2008

(Check out more recent big 'uns in Recent Kayak Fishing Catches)

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4/11/08 Update

Can't seem to get back to the water. Too busy making FROGs for YOU. Also, we're working on the Fly rod version of the FROG to update it also. Seems a lot of folks are interested in it since it was seen on Dollar Wise Fly on Versus network.

We've lost our cloud cover for awhile anyway (big high pressuremoved in) and a surprise late season cold front will hit next week. I guess we'll have to get some work done. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I caught another big fish right after this one but I didn't want to stop fishing to take a photo. A thunderstorm was approaching and the big fish were all moving at the same time. I lost a third big fish.

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Caught by Capt Ken on Mar. 22,2008

         This fish hit the FROG right next to the kayak, scaring the dickens out of me.It put up a wicked fight in heavy pads at close quarters. It wasn't raining for a change. I caught another big fish earlier bvt I didn't want to stop for a picture. Inset shows my new "best FROG friend".

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Both fish caught by Capt Ken on Mar 6,2008

See some more recent catches in Recent Kayak Fishing Catches

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