Fishing off a jet ski is a trip! I even got to drive a little this trip :)

After a day of wade fishing in chest deep water, tho, it can be pretty hard
to get back on. But, there is no way we could have got to the deep spot and
waded shallow onto a reef from the shore.

He has an aluminum angle iron square stuck out the back with an ice chest
bolted to it. Holds ice and fish and cold drinks and makes a second seat on
the rare ocassion that we drift fish. He also has two rod holders bolted to
each side of the ice chest. A little anchor, bait bucket. Oh, and get this:
rather than having an aerator, he gets a small medical oxygen bottle. With a
small enough valve, it lasts years and our shrimp lasted two days. Pull the
bait out of the water, drop the stone in, turn the O2 on, motor to the next
spot, turn it off. And he velcros the oxy tank up under a handle so it is
out of the way.

Lots of storage under the front 'hood' and seat.

But, still, I got a charlie horse in BOTH legs at the end of the second day
trying to get back on it in 4' of water. My dad was saying we could do that
with his canoe and I'm like...well, not all day or we won't be able to get
back in!

John


"Ed White" wrote in message
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"yellowchaser" wrote
in
message ...
HaHa I hear ya. Is it wrong to tell you that we keep the newsgroup
articles for 6 months? Just in case you wanted a better way of
reading them.

Tex Johnwrote:
Friend of mine and I went wade fishing weekend before last. I caught
my
first keeper spec and keeper red on live shrimp (no particular
manufacturer
but one day the shrimp were from Corpus and one day the shrimp were
from
Galveston). I'd complain that Ernie's Too raised their price to
$16/qt but I
wouldn't want to plug them or how good their hot burgers are mid-day
between
cold water wading shifts.

Didn't catch much on artificials but I guess I can't say we were
using
sal****er assassins.

Or that we were wade fishing off a SeeDoo jet ski. Or that I was
using new
Shakespeare gear and by not using Stren braided line, I caught
1/10th of
what my friend caught. However, I was glad to use my new stringer
but I
probably shouldn't mention that I bought it at Wal-Mart.

We were close to San Luis Pass (though for non-commercial reasons I
won't
get you any closer by saying where we were in relation to the pier
since the
pier charges money to get in).

Actually, since we are going back out this weekend, I really can't
say where
exactly we were because the buddy with the boat would toss me off
the back
end of the jet ski (again) for telling :)

Is it commercialisation to mention Ernie's Too? How else would a
fisherman
know where to buy bait or that the price had gone up?

Hmmm...

Good fishing, all!
John
Over 7,000+ Reel, Engine and Trolling Motor Schematics
www.hookandsinker.com

Good reading and yes, I suspected you had your tongue planted firmly in
cheek, but I kinda agree with the spamcops, I could care less what
somebody
is selling, if they come here and the ONLY reason they post is to promote
something they will profit from, screw 'em, let 'em buy advertising
somewhere, I don't want to read it here. But it sounded like a pretty cool
fishing trip, never fished off a jetski, but I'd like to try sometime.
As far as finding old posts, use Google and search the groups thru there,
you can find anything.
Ed

And to keep this somewhat on topic, I went to a trout tourney Saturday,
opening day, with my kids, shoulder-to-shoulder fishing, caught nothing,
if
that was what fishing was like, I'd never want to do it......went to our
local reservoir yesterday and caught bluegill till we'd had enough, then
went home. That was more like it. A few more measly degrees in the ocean
water, and my striped friends will be back. WooHoo!