When I was leaving as district manager of my company for Louisiana, my men arranged a fishing trip in the Gulf off the mouth of the Mississippi River. We were having a terrific time, catching a lot of red snappers. The charter captain said to me, "Why don't you take one of the rods, put a small snapper on it, and free line it over the stern of the boat?" I did, and almost immediately caught a very large King Mackerel, perhaps 20 pounds. Another of our party did the same thing and caught another large King.

A while later, one of the men, left his rod and reel to get a beer. While his line was left unattended, some type large fish hit his bait and pulled the entire rod, reel, and everything overboard! The captain said, "Well, that's just $100!" But what is a $100 when you are having such a good time?

Not 15 minutes later, one of the guys hung something, finally got it aboard and along with the fish, was another fishing line. When we pulled it up, there on the end was the missing rod and reel. Talk about luck.

Later, when we got ashore, we fillet the fish, had a fish fry back in New Orleans, and shot the bull all hours. No one wanted it to end! Just Sayin...RJS

I have been reading this forum for a while but can't remember if I introduced myself. I am a semi geezer lady living just east of Tampa in a town called Thonotosassa. I have always loved to fish but am not very good at it but am keen to learn more. And now they have closed down the parks where I usually went fishing ( but not catching except for one fat catfish from the Hillsborough River). If anyone in the area is looking for an occasional fishing buddy let me know. I don't have a boat so have just been fishing from banks and docks....except in alligator mating season.😜

I have to agree with Plumbob on the expense stuff. But another thing to think about is that a kayak can get into places where a bass boat can't go and it is very quiet. Quite is a great thing to not spook the fish. Sure you can rack up a receipt for a kayak that would give a decent used bass boat a run for it's money with extras like motors,fish Finders, special rod holders and paddles ECT ECT. But from my experience from fishing on both a kayak and boat ( very little in a kayak), a kayak dose have a lot more advantages that a boat just can't do. But again I don't have a lot of experience (yet) on a kayak so don't take my full word on it.