HardCore Kayak Anglers Club
West Central Florida
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The HardCore Kayak Anglers Club was created on 08-08-08. It is based around the many avid anglers that have chosen a kayak as their main method of fishing.
We love to have fun and catch BIG fish!
Snook, Redfish, and Trout are our favorites inshore. We also target Tarpon, Kingfish, Shark and any other fish that can pull some serious drag!
We are very active in our community. Participating in and hosting many tournaments. The HCKAC is very thankful to live in such a beautiful part of the country where kayak fishing is as good as it gets!
Our mission is to help preserve this resource for future generations through "catch and release", and clean-up/ re-nourishment efforts.
Back On The Water
By Florida Kayak Angler
God what a horrible winter it was huh???? My fishing was severely restricted and not just by the weather, but also dealing with a foreclosed on rental house I was living in, and then purchasing a home. Between all the moving and chaos the only time I could fish the weather was just down right miserable. I escaped Florida for a week and headed to Bangor, Maine to do some snowboarding and that was a nice vacation. Then upon arrival home I jumped right into fishing the Jacksonville IFA Kayak Tournament with zero time on the water since before x-mas. Managed 7th place out of 30 anglers and was one of the only 10 anglers to actually catch any fish. Not a bad way to start the season off and could only pray that the warm weather was just right around the corner.
3/8/10 - Titusville bridge was closed so not wanting to have to drive all the way up and around to get to our more sought after launch sites, we settled for the west bank of the Northern IRL. The weather was perfect warming up early, clear skies, and light easterly winds. Lonny and I set out south in hopes that the reds would sense the warming air on its way and after the long hard winter would be starved and raping the flats. Sure enough we were right, and fish were just about everywhere busting the surface, backs rolling out of the water, pretty much just a feeding fest. We immediately got to work and started stalking a small school of mid to upper slot reds. Choice of bait for the day was Gulps new Ghost Shrimps in the Neon Green flavor on 2/0 gamakatsu weighted worm gap hooks. Didn't take long to hook up and we spent most the day chasing schools around in 2ft - 1.5ft of H20. The reds are being very aggressive now with their feeding but are still spooked rather easily so creep up on them as quietly as possible and try not to spook the schools back into the deeper waters. Its nice to be back on the water!
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GATOR TIME!!
By Jesse Wright
GATOR TIME!!
By Jesse Wright
Boy has it been a long time since I posted a report with some nice fish. Jacob and I launched the kayaks around 7am and off we went. Jacob started the morn off with a small Trout on spook and then it took forever to get one bite.
Around 9am we found a small hole holding some Trout but it only lasted a few minutes. As we noticed the tide coming in we paddled back out onto the flat. I cast out and got nailed!!! I thought I had a red but it was a nice Trout. I pulled him up took a pic and off he went. About 30 minutes later we found a hole with a crap load of Trout.
Caught about 10 each up to 18 inches, till I hooked a bigger one that was 26". All Trout were caught on the new Mirrolure 5" Provoker on a MF worm hook. Thanks for looking Jesse.
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Around 9am we found a small hole holding some Trout but it only lasted a few minutes. As we noticed the tide coming in we paddled back out onto the flat. I cast out and got nailed!!! I thought I had a red but it was a nice Trout. I pulled him up took a pic and off he went. About 30 minutes later we found a hole with a crap load of Trout.
Caught about 10 each up to 18 inches, till I hooked a bigger one that was 26". All Trout were caught on the new Mirrolure 5" Provoker on a MF worm hook. Thanks for looking Jesse.
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UPGRADE!
By Frank Cruze
The weather looked good so me and the wife decided to head out to CRB to paddle around and see if we could scare up some fish. We launched around 10am and the weather was nice as forecasted with a north wind that wasn't too bad.
I spent most of the day throwing the DOA sad tail that netted me my first red last Monday. Around 1:30 I was sick of casting that thing so I switched to the mirrodine. First cast and BAM FISH ON! I managed to land this nice 25 inch red. What a great day. I hope tomorrow is just as nice out.
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Monday!
By Brian Stauffer
Well another Mason Creek Monday. The morning started out with a low incoming all good. the first fish 19.5 Trout (no photo) . Now off for some Red's.
I spotted many but no takers just spooked fish and boils of mud, then the sun hit its peak in the sky and they began to feed.The first was this 28" and the 2nd was this 24" with 3 followers . The day ended with this 20.5" Trout. Still a great day.
Later bri
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