Here Kitty-Kitty; In Search of Florida Cats

No Oil Here just clean Florida Freshwater Cats

Channel Cat fishing, no matter where you fish, has always been a past time to cool away under an oak tree, spinning tackle to a bamboo pole, a can of worms, your favorite stink bait or just a pint of chicken livers from your local grocery.

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This is What Distinguishes an Ocean Kayak From the Rest of the Kayaks

By PETER GITUNDU

Originally, kayaks were made to be sailed or to be used on until, calm lake water. However, with passing year use of kayaks in ocean, kayaking is increased and now this ocean kayak is also very popular. Original design of kayak was suitable for calm water but for using it for sailing on sea their design is somewhat modified. To cope up with changing weather of ocean these kayaks are built more wide and their cargo carrying capacity is better than whitewater kayaks.
The best part of this ocean kayak is that they can glide when needed, so ocean kayak can move around without making any kind of noise; this is perfect for who loves to watch nature or love to photography with complete concentration or best thing fishing. Unlike the motor boats these ocean kayak will be quite, an ideal condition for fishing.
Ocean kayaking is not the same as kayaking in lake. You must learn basics of ocean kayaking before kayaking trip. If you are beginner then, it advisable for you take some experienced person with you on ocean kayaking trip. Always check whether your ocean kayak and other gears are in excellent condition before starting kayak trip. Do not forget to carry container that floats with you.
If you are planning to buy one ocean kayak for you, they decide if you are planning to use ocean kayak with your family, as ocean kayak needs to be perfectly balanced float on ocean water perfectly. It is very important to check sea worthiness of an ocean kayak.
Getting a perfect ocean kayak is not a problem. There are many websites and online store are there on internet that will give you quite good ocean kayak and gears. Never attempt to use your whitewater or lake kayak in ocean it could be dangerous.
Basic structure of ocean kayak is completely different. Ocean kayaks are huge; means have longer length than normal kayaks. These ocean kayaks are about fifteen plus feet longer and about 26 inches wider. Cockpit of ocean kayaks can be built as per your specification if you want it large choose larger. Most common size of ocean kayaks is in between 12 to 15 feet and usually kayaks long lengths are built for two paddlers. Ocean kayak usually 18″ to 28″ wide but some special type of kayak like surf skies, which is specially designed for wave surfing are not wide. Longer length of ocean kayaks increases their stability while sailing and keep them in straight line.
Weekend trip with night camping is popular amongst recreational kayakers and you can combine ocean kayaking tour with watching wild life. Contemporary ocean kayak are designed to carry more equipments and things for trip for two weeks. Even expedition kayaks are there, which can be loaded with very heavy load.
With few training sessions of ocean kayaking and you are ready to go for kayak trip that too with your family. These coaching sessions are available on all major beaches and sports clubs. This will defiantly help you to have fun kayak trip.
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Kayaking the inner secrets of Green Florida

Kayaking the inner secrets of Green Florida

Angling Florida waters is a blend of open oceans and seas to bays, beaches, brackish water rivers, creeks and streams, which make up inshore Florida. A demarcation between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean noticed only by a thinly spread of islands, known as the Keys and its exceptional styles and varieties of fish caught either on land or onboard. If you need it, Inshore Florida at The Reel Deal will get it; outboard/inboard motor parts to any angling gear you cannot find; also carrying a small but select inventory of products to aid you in catching fish within and beyond Inshore Florida. Looking for an adventure to remember and cherish for a lifetime, kayaks to backpacks, a journey in Florida green, providing you with a free no fee charter guide referral service from offshore big game to inshore whatever and backcountry drifting trips too. Kayaking the inner secrets of Florida’s estuaries and mangrove-lined creeks to canals, where you, like the Indians of yesteryear once paddled quietly across the skinnies in search of his quest. Exotic birds to alligators on the waters; a photographic moment waiting to be caught in time with Inshore Florida-Offshore Wherever, helping you find what you want while visiting us here in the Sunshine State and becoming a better Angling Florida waters is a blend of open oceans and seas to bays, beaches, brackish water rivers, creeks and streams, which make up inshore Florida. A demarcation between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean noticed only by a thinly spread of islands, known as the Keys and its exceptional styles and varieties of fish caught either on land or onboard. If you need it, Inshore Florida at The Reel Deal will get it; outboard/inboard motor parts to any angling gear you cannot find; also carrying a small but select inventory of products to aid you in catching fish within and beyond Inshore Florida. Looking for an adventure to remember and cherish for a lifetime, kayaks to backpacks, a journey in Florida green, providing you with a free no fee charter guide referral service from offshore big game to inshore whatever and backcountry drifting trips too. Kayaking the inner secrets of Florida’s estuaries and mangrove-lined creeks to canals, where you, like the Indians of yesteryear once paddled quietly across the skinnies in search of his quest. Exotic birds to alligators on the waters; a photographic moment waiting to be caught in time with Inshore Florida-Offshore Wherever, helping you find what you want while visiting us here in the Sunshine State and becoming a better steward to your marine surroundings and practicing CPR when ever possible (Catch, Photograph and Release).
Ward to your marine surroundings and practicing CPR when ever possible (Catch, Photograph and Release).

SNOOK HAVEN; -YOU AND ME AND A CANOE

Take I-75 south to exit 191 and go west about a mile, and then turn left onto East Venice Avenue.
River tours run Wednesday-Sunday, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., $10-$12 person.
Don’t let the dirt road fool you, just keep on trekking and you will dead end into the river or parking lot, and they both are at the end, next to Snook Haven.

At Snook Haven, little has but changed but the faces and styles; all that remain of a day from our past. If you sit back, you can still hear Johnny Weissmuller ordering a cold can of brew from over the bar back. Old style pictures still hang at crooked angles and if you listen carefully, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the modern world down the road, you will hear a raptor’s cry as Marlene orders the same, waiting from a break in the rain, before filming again begins with Revenge of the Killer Turtles (1947). As an old Florida, bayou-style restaurant and pleasantly primitive entertainment venue, Snook Haven Restaurant & Fish Camp has been a fixture in Venice for more than 50 years. Even before that, anglers traversing the fish-filled waters of the Myakka River in the early 1900s camped in the area. Used as everything from fish camp to fish house, this journey back into time is well worth the time to visit. Back when I first moved to Venice, Florida, Snook Haven is where I set up my head quarters and rendezvous for ReelnFish Charters. Running clients up the river for a chance to mingle with our Florida wildlife and catch Bass to freshwater Channel Catfish. Big cats in the twenty-pound plus range on light tackle to cane poles. Camping on the banks or overnight pack-ins. Moving down stream, we would catch everything from Snook to Reds and if the tides are right, you can catch Bull sharks on one side of the river and Bass on the other, along with an occasional Blue crab too. Now retired to angling and writing about it instead, I enjoy my visits back where “Tarzan” slept lazily along an out stretched branch of a giant oak draped with Spanish moss beyond the restaurant's waterfront, back deck. There one can find a canoe tucked between a fleet canoes to kayaks loosely tied to the aging dock. Here you can elect to explore the slow-moving waters by powerboat or as Snook Haven's slogan states - "You and a Canoe" – paradise to me! In the canoe the river is yours, at eye level with the crocks, the beauty is bountiful. One and a half hours at fifteen dollars is a steal of a deal for either a canoe or kayak, with all safety equipment provided. If you own a boat of 17 feet or small, you may use their boat ramp at a reasonable charge of five dollars plus tax. The boat launch is closed because of the crowds and live bands on Saturdays & Sunday’s between 11-6 and on Thursday between 8-3and the rest of the time restricted to dawn to dusk exclusively!
Once the haunts of the “King”, Elvis and Senator Kennedy before he was President and twice visited by President Regan and Bush Sr., Snook Haven is a rendezvous with the past on the sun-dappled shores of the winding Myakka River in Venice. Think giant oaks draped with Spanish moss, graceful cabbage palms, and tea-colored waters flowing by. Two movies have been filmed there, the most famous a Tarzan flick called Revenge of the Killer Turtles. On Thursdays, the public is invited to hear the Gulf Coast Banjo Society practice from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and every Sunday the place overflows with weekend bikers and other regulars who gather round the shaded outdoor picnic tables to listen to live music. For overnight stays, you can bring your own RV or rent one of the fully furnished cabins. Call first, though, as many are undergoing renovation. Snook Haven also offers guided pontoon boat charters up and down the Myakka River. Bring a camera; one November afternoon, one of the largest alligators the boat captain said he has ever seen charged the charter and dove straight under. Even grown men shrieked. But the boat also meanders down some spectacularly scenic stretches of pristine county-owned lands that will never be developed. River tours are available Wednesday through Sunday. You can eat indoors or dine outside at a wooden table overlooking the river. Lunch is served from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; dinner runs from 4-9 p.m. seven days a week. Specialties include gator bites (of course!) and grouper, fried, grilled or blackened. Try it stuffed with crab or with the shrimp and clam platter. December, when the early mornings and evening are cool, is a splendid time of year for this experience. Bring bug spray, as the mosquitoes can be vicious.

Venice Florida; Vacations to Dive For!

By Gary Andersons Inshore Florida-Offshore anywhere, an Angling Entrepreneur’s Adventure, whether you are looking on the skinnies of kayaking the flats to extreme shark angling off the local pier or just a dipping of the sand scoops in search of Megalodon Shark Teeth, the beaches of Venice Florida are known as the World's Shark Tooth Capital. What could be more fun than getting up early...?

Imagine an adventure in combing the beaches, looking for shark's teeth and sea shells and not just any sharks tooth but that of the most feared of all sea creatures of the time, Megalodon (believed to be over 60 feet in length) with an open jaw largest enough for a six foot person to stand in. Chances are good on excavating one of these teeth and more along the shoreline of our Venice Florida beaches, with sand scoop but do not, despair if the great mega tooth is still buried out there somewhere; tiger, bull, sandbar and mako are a sure scoop. Bring a snorkel and fins to pick up some nice souvenirs off the fossilized coral bottom off Alhambra, which is nice at an eight-foot dive for easy pickings. Further off the beach is “The Bone Yard”, located on the shoals of the “Venice Reef”. A swim from the beach is possible but a boat is better for the return swim can become tiresome. Located in 25 to thirty feet deep waters to the wash or sides of this concrete, rebar structured reef are some rather large finds in big teeth and quaintly too. Located between the Venice Pier and the run off pipes on the beach, the reef is a tricky one to find unless you have its numbers or wish to crisis-cross until you find that 17 foot bump; top of the reef. A new eBook called Numbers is coming out early next month for around a buck and with it; you can have all the dive/angling spots you ever wanted to add to your own numbers book. A listing of all reefs, their consistency and GPS/Loran coordinates. Now you too can fish like the pro’s or dive with the best in finding beauty to artifacts from the depths of Davie Jones Locker!

Prehistoric relics of miniature horses to giant wooly mastodons are strewn everywhere and mixed along among the seashells, which you find here are beyond description! Stunning! If you are looking for a weekend day-trip, remember the beaches of Venice, Florida! Venice is less than an hour's drive south of the Clearwater, Safety Harbor area or driving north from the Ft. Myers area; it is the perfect place for a family adventure! Six to nine foot sharks are caught and released in an Eco-Angling Event on the weekends by local area Venice Pier Anglers, (The Island Anglers), catching present day tigers, bulls, nurse, hammerheads and at least 10 other smaller varieties of “jaws.”

Great restaurants to places to stay, motels to quaint Bed and Breakfast’s; Venice Florida is but centrally located to fun and adventures abound. Drop on by and see just why downtown Venice is a transudation of laid backed luxury in visitor’s reclamations of our old style Floridian past. “Pull up a chair and stay awhile, y’here!”

If you are in need of air to fins, check out our two area shops:

• Florida West Scuba School

• Scuba Quest

A Demarcation of CPR and Styles of Angling Inshore Florida

Angling Florida waters is a blend of open oceans and seas to bays, beaches, brackish water rivers, creeks and streams, which make up inshore Florida. A demarcation between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean noticed only by a thinly spread of islands, known as the Keys and its exceptional styles and varieties of fish caught either on land or onboard. If you need it, The Reel Deal of Inshore Florida will get it; outboard/inboard motor parts to any angling gear you cannot find; also carrying a small but select inventory of products to aid you in catching fish within and beyond Inshore Florida. We also provide you with a free no fee charter guide referral service from offshore big game to inshore whatever and backcountry drifting trips to kayaking the inner secrets of Florida’s estuaries and mangrove-lined creeks to canals, where you too, like the Indians of the past once paddled quietly across the skinnies in search of his quest. Birding to backpack trips too, giving you, our customer, an adventure to cherish for a lifetime; kayaks to backpacks, a journey in Florida green or to a product you know delivers! Inshore Florida-Offshore Wherever, helping you find more fish while becoming a better steward to your marine surroundings and practicing CPR when ever possible (Catch, Photograph and Release).