Chatter COMMUNITY RE: FIGURE HEAD
This photo of Raf Vargas perched on the bow of his Hobie Pro Angler 14 had Kayak Angler’s friends talking on Facebook. Reactions to his picture ranged from incredible to incredulous; here are two of our favorites.
“Looks exactly like my Hobie PA12... although I’d never attempt that. I haven’t experienced mine to be that incredibly stable...or maybe I’m just chicken.” —Elias Villarreal
RAF VARGAS ON POINT. PHOTO: RAF VARGAS
Deadliest Catch
Strange things swim in the sea. Drop your bait into the water and who knows what wild creature you’ll pull out. Lisa Densmore’s “Reader Tale” in the Spring 2014
issue about tangling with a toothy pike had reader’s talking on Facebook about their meanest, nastiest and toothiest catch. For Lucas Leskiw, it was a mus- kellunge that left a permanent mark. “Watched my father almost lose his hand to a lunker as a child, bit three-quarters of the way through!” Danny Lafrance couldn’t choose between bow-
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fin and long-nose gar. “What a great pair of toothy fish…let them give what they got under the hood,” he wrote. Brad Hole was torn between “ling-zilla or an octopus I caught in my crab pot.” It was no surprise that bluefish made the list. Steve
Cole will never forget the 12-pounder that he caught in the Gulf of Maine, “On my maiden voyage…a seal chased it around the kayak.” A 15-pound chomper blue haunts Steve Thompson. “That f-ing fish bit me three times,” he cried, “I still fear bluefish.” Sharks were by far the most common kayak fish-
ing nightmare. William Yowell had a big bull shark almost take his hand off while fishing at night on his SUP. Brandon Stearns had a run-in with a 300-pounder in Key West. “SOB had scars and bullet wounds on it and its teeth were all jacked up and jag- ged,” he recalled. Stargazers, ribbonfish and snakehead rounded out
the list of freaky fish, but some readers shared sto- ries of two-legged sea monsters. “I hooked a mid- shipman in San Diego Bay,” Edward Warren Pelis- sier posted on Facebook, leaving us wondering how that happened—and how it turned out. “My ex-wife,” Michael Bercovitz laughs out loud, “Thank God for catch and release.” Chris Carlisle posted a photo of a hook in his knee. “The ugliest and biggest catch of my life,” he admitted, “Me!”
“I love doing this—drives my sit-in buddies crazy!” —Greg Gaudreau
Dogfishing
“Funny, we don’t think kayak fishing with a dog is un- usual,” wrote Peter Holcombe in an email, “we take our Labrador retriever everywhere we go.” Holcombe was responding to Kayak Angler readers commenting on a picture of his wife, Kathy, and dog, Tucker, that appeared in the “Back Casts” gallery of the Spring 2014 issue. “He is very mellow,” Holcombe said of Tucker, “but he gets excited when we hook a fish.” Holcombe’s photo got Kayak Angler readers excited
to share their own dog tales. “I took my three-year- old boxer, Kirra, with me a couple of times,” Brandon Barton told us via email. “It was a little challenging not spooking fish,” he wrote, “but it was worth it to see her enjoy the water.” Reader Ed Mashburn takes his Boston terriers Mol-
lie and Millie kayak fishing. “They like to approve the fish that we catch,” Mashburn laughed, “but we don’t let them out of the kayak anywhere alligators live.” Corbet Deary leaves his Walker hound at home.
“The first sign of a whitetail and he would be out of the kayak and off to the races.” Which is why we rec- ommend fitting Fido with a doggy life vest. On Kayak Angler’s Facebook page, Kevin Slifer
posted a photo of his full-size retriever-husky mix, Goldy, standing in the stern. “Look at the big smile on her face,” he beamed, “she loves it!” Patrick Aaron Baron posted a photo of his cat perched on the bow of his kayak. “This is my kayak fishing partner, the famous Schnitzle!” Just when we thought we had seen it all, Dan Ar-
mitage emailed us pictures of a Labrador retriever lying on the bow of a sit-inside. “The dog can hear splashes and see commotion from fish better than we can,” Armitage bragged, “he’ll stare in the direction of the fish until we’re within casting range.” Now that’s a fisherman’s best friend.
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