Today's Paddle

Johnnyonthespot wrote

Do any of you fish while out there?

Some times from my canoe if I’m on fresh water. I’m a shitty fisherman and I don’t have the patience for it.  

Johnnyonthespot wrote

Do any of you fish while out there?

You mean like this?

https://youtu.be/m7_8NtwrGUU

You’d think watching more than 30 minutes of a dude fishing from a kayak would be boring AF, but surprisingly it’s not!

^^Holy crap!

JT, that's where I was going with it. I'd have a hard enough time with a Northern Pike in the ADK.

Brownski wrote

Johnnyonthespot wrote

Do any of you fish while out there?

Some times from my canoe if I’m on fresh water. I’m a shitty fisherman and I don’t have the patience for it.

Stripers on the hudson  would be fun.

i used to fish the Piermont Pier until it became so crowed..I caught a couple of 36" strippers under the old TZ a few years ago

JasonWx wrote

i used to fish the Piermont Pier until it became so crowed..I caught a couple of 36" strippers under the old TZ a few years ago

Yeah, there’s always lots of folks there under normal circumstances. I saw a guy pull an eel out of the water near the marsh a couple years ago. Maybe 18 inches or so. Eels creep me out.

Yeah eels are weird. I saw a sturgeon in the Hudson once. I will never go swimming in the Hudson again.

eels are nasty but make good stripper bait..

Johnnyonthespot wrote

I saw a sturgeon in the Hudson once. I will never go swimming in the Hudson again.

Understandable...
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2019/03/researchers-in-awe-huge-14-foot-atlantic-sturgeon-spotted-in-hudson-river.html
I remember reading that last year and thinking about how many times something big jumped or splashed in the water near me while paddling and disappeared before I had a chance to turn my head. My red kayak is 17 feet long for reference.

JasonWx wrote

eels are nasty but make good stripper bait..

FIFY

When we had a boat out of Verplanck we used to pull up a lot of eels while crabbing.  They made for good crab bait, too!

Sick Bird Rider wrote

JasonWx wrote

eels are nasty but make good stripper bait..

FIFY

ugly ones