Kayak Fishing Trip – Jeff & Jeff in Moses Creek, Florida

Jeff McGovern and Jeff Maron ready to launch their fishing kayaks in Moses Creek, Florida, before the kayak fishing trip they had been planning for some time: -”I met up with Jeff Maron and his buddy Kenny at Shady Oyster this morning right around 6AM.  We headed out before the sun and fished topwater lures to start with.  Jeff was the only one to hook up and landed a very nice jack the size of the one in my short video.  After the sun came up we paddled over to Moses Creek and just enjoyed the scenery. Both Jeff and Kenny had to head home mid morning and I stayed out till around 1PM.  My fishless morning turned fruitful right around 11AM. The only rod I used today was the little Emmrod Rugged Flex I wrote about last year.  After using topwaters and a Redfish Magic spinnerbait without success I turned to a 1/4oz Mission jig head with a 3inch Gulp shrimp in the new penny color.  That did it.  The first taken was a just under legal trout followed by two more of the same.  Then a flounder, three of the chunky jacks like in the video and then two more flounder. I had decided early on I was not going to take fish home today. All those flounder were legal but no sense changing plans.  The lady fish were also present but really little.  But there were swarms of them and if you moved the bait too fast they would try and nail right away.  Funny thing was all of the fish I caught were in an area that was a cut between two of the small islands just south of Shady Oyster. It was low tide so the actual width was only maybe 30 feet and the fishable area no more than 45 feet long.  But the water was really pushing through that cut so the fish were on a buffet of bait fish and shrimp. It was fun and on that little Emmrod every fish felt so much bigger. With the tides running the way they were the only time I had to get my feet wet was when I headed in and the boat hot bottom 5 feet from the waters edge. –Jeff”