Outdoor adventure bucket lis

[Tymurrey]

Soak your new line in a bucket of water over night, then spool it onto your reel TIGHT!!! that will keep it from cinching down into your spool when you have big fish on.

Spray/soak your reels in aerosol dry silicone before you go do anything saltwater...even protects a pfleuger. I think you can still buy it at NAPA, blue & white can. Its not lube or oil, it goes on like wet alcohol, and dries quickly. Also works aweson on guns, and anything else you want to never rust or corrode.

Any pier south of Palm Beach is infested with tarpon. 30lb braid with a 3+ foot 30lb fluro leader and a circle hook, no weight. keep a bucket with an aerator, catch whatever baitfish is around, usually 8" to 12" cigar minnows. tail or nose hook one and toss it out. having 3 people is best, one to hold your rod while you run down to the beach to land the tarpon and another to take photos, but you can do it with two.

For distance you need a longer rod, and long rods usually dont come in travel sizes. I often buy a rod or two on location and just give em away when I leave......still waaay cheaper than hiring a guide.

I think next time i will just buy a rod down there like you mention. I picked up a penn spinning reel and thats held up well to the saltwater and sand.

I may have to head to the ocean side one trip. We always did the gulf side and sanibel island has been my favorite spot. We stopped after it got tore up by a hurricane and i started focusing on hunting. I keep trying to convince myself that florida may be a nice retirement spot if i can afford all the lures i lose in the mangroves. Accurate casting from a kayak was not something i mastered when i was down there. That and the beach walkers looking for shells who don't look up and walk through your lines drive me nuts. I scared a few people on sanibel since you werent supposed to use light because of the nesting turtles and the people looking for shells would be walking along in the dark with their flashlights looking at the ground and then get wrapped up in my lines.

 

[MSA]

I think next time i will just buy a rod down there like you mention. I picked up a penn spinning reel and thats held up well to the saltwater and sand.

I may have to head to the ocean side one trip. We always did the gulf side and sanibel island has been my favorite spot. We stopped after it got tore up by a hurricane and i started focusing on hunting. I keep trying to convince myself that florida may be a nice retirement spot if i can afford all the lures i lose in the mangroves. Accurate casting from a kayak was not something i mastered when i was down there. That and the beach walkers looking for shells who don't look up and walk through your lines drive me nuts. I scared a few people on sanibel since you werent supposed to use light because of the nesting turtles and the people looking for shells would be walking along in the dark with their flashlights looking at the ground and then get wrapped up in my lines.

Theres some really nice travel rods out there that fit in your luggage, but if you want something for big game in the surf and casting distance in that 12-15 foot range, you'll have to buy when you get there or pay the 250 dollar over size fees at the airport both ways. A decent surf rod is 80-150 bucks.

youd like the panhandle gulf area better, between destin and Pensacola, Theres less people, the water is deeper so theres more species like tuna, red snapper, Mahi and sailfish you can get from shore, piers, & kayaks, and of course all the inshore stuff like reds and flounder, and it also has the biggest sharks you can target from the surf.

in South Florida, I would make the drive East to fish the Atlantic side vs. the gulf side....even the backwaters and canals over there have more fishing opportunity than the gulf side

 

[Kurtr]

I would like to take a trip to Venice La to fish and eat that great cajun food

 

[guywhofishes]

I would like to take a trip to Venice La to fish and eat that great cajun food

Been there, done that. Except I was hunting for Deepwater crude from the 2010 release.

That food is hard to beat - no wonder they're all dead by 70 down in them parts. Worth it.

 

[Twitch]

I would like to take a trip to Venice La to fish and eat that great cajun food

We were talking about a yellowfin tuna trip out of Venice one of these years but a guy we fished with out of Gulf Shores does similar trips as well. The panhandle of Fl all the way through the gulf coast of AL, MS, and LA are awesome areas with great food. I’ve been down there 5 or 6 winters in a row and it’s an awesome part of the country.