Jeff Interviews A Redfish Onboard His W Kayak

Here’s a funny movie that Jeff sent us from Florida:

And this is a great view of a Florida sunrise caught by Jeff's camera:

“Yesterday was the classic fishing day.  The sunrise, as you saw from the picture was simply beautiful.  Air temps started out with t-shirt conmfort at around 70 degrees and warmed into a humidity free low 80s by noon.  They was just enough of a light breeze to ripple the water just a tiny bit but not so much as to hamper casting in any direction you pleased. I figured with the upcoming Jax Kayak Classic it would be a good day to experiment.
I was very surprised by the lure that out caught everything else by a huge margin today.  Most of the newer baits we are seeing in stores have some type of wiggle, sound, or eratic action built into them.  That is the current fad and of course every lure firm has examples in their lineup of baits.  While I was prepareing my tackle Friday night I cam across three little lures long discontinued by by L&S Bait Company under their Mirrolure brand here in Florida.  These folks are known for their tough durable saltwater hard baits and I do have a number of them in my tackle stash.  What I came upon were three little Mirrolure 3M3 ultralight topwater plugs.  The first one I picked up had rusted hook tips so I dug through my hook supply looking for replacements.  I found two that would work.  One a standard #6 treble and the other a dressed #6 treble.  I swithced them out and tied the lure to my old Ugly Stick pack rod with one of my Daiwa 1300SS reels.  The line was 8lb test mono with a 15lb Flurocarbon leader.  This little lure has no rattles no particular wiggle or wild action.  It just glides along and does pretty much nothing looking to all the world like a tiny glass minnow just moving near the surface.

Sometimes that lack of obvious action is what the fish want.  I would toss it out and not all that far since it’s very light at 1/8oz and has the aerodinamic flight of a potato chip.  Once it hit the water I would just reel it in ever so slowly.  There were times yesterday it was a fish on each cast and the type varied.

I caugfht redfish on it, blue fish, sea trout, and ladyfish they all seemed to key in on the almost total lack of action.  My fear was on such light tackle I would loose the fish since the bait is so tiny.  But those nasty sharp little hooks held on and the fish came to net or hand.  I guess the moral here is just beacuse the lure is old fashioned and out of date don’t think the fish will ignore it.  At this point it might become my secret weapon.

I guess your website is even seen by seakayakers.  I was fishing next to a small island when a group of 10 sea kayakers went through bird watching.  As they glided past me I could hear the comments.  Words like “hey there is that boat I told you about”,” that is so cool”, and “I’ll bet it’s easier to get around than these things”.  I just waved and wished them well.– Jeff”