AND SO IT BEGINS
 

How did you find out about BWE?

Caught a trout at Silver Lake on my old OK frenzy. Told my fishing buddy at work that fishing from a kayak was really fun, and he sent me to this site. Had no idea there was such a big group of dedicated kayak fishermen, but I ended up finding a new hobby for life.

Googled "kayak fishing forums". Found bwe and recognized all the smelly sewer folk from YouTube on here. After that it's just been a fun learning experience always thinking of the next trip. :paddleersmilie:

From this guy.

When I found out I was relocating to LA for work, I asked around the AZ fishing forums and this was the #1 recommended place.

You guys can be a tough crowd, but I'm really happy to be here. :cheers:

You might say.....
 

I drifted in from the outer banks....after my second rebuild on my outboard couldn't find a woman to marry with an Evenrude...with no government funding and was peddling to get by I thought padding might be more fun....the rest is history in the makings......:reel:

I was fishing an epic LJ squid tail bite w my buddy on our 20' Mako. We ended up whacking four biggies inc a five two. A yak dude goes by towed off towards the horizon screaming to his buddies "see you guys in a bit". I'm like, I gotta get me some of that action. :the_finger:

Woah. I don't know if that would be the thrill of a lifetime or if it would scare me to death.... :goodnight:

Old days...
 

I was active on Plastic Navy, Kayak Fishing Mafia, and Kayak4Fish sites. Those seemed to die down or disappear.

Stumbled across this site in 2006.

Always glad to see an ol' school BWE member post up every now and then.

Interesting how BWE member personalities have changed over the years. I don't recall as much drama back in the day.

It's all Mr. Patrick's fault. One day I was drift fishing out in LJ in my kayak and he came by and asked if I was signed up on BWE. I said no but that I did browse the sight and he said you should sign up. After I did and was finally able to access more pictures and it let me post, it happened to be the day after I caught a 5' Mako and got some pictures. It was my first post. It is my Avatar. Thanks for the recommendation Mr. Patrick.

The first kayak forum I found out about was Plastic Navy. I forget the guy's name that started it, fished with him in the bay a few times. Not many kayak fishermen in those days, mostly fished from longboards in North County. We did not necessarily want to put our favorite fishing or surf spots on the internet. Here's a couple videos from the pre-GoPro days.

These and kayaksportfishing.com for the Malibu-based types.

BAYTUBERS can't even remember last time I was on that,site smh

Yakfishing.com back around 2000 was the biggest SD based, but were heavy handed in censoring out the mention of any other site and Greg, Corey and Al started a simple format here just like the old archived kayaksportfishing.com and Jim's Kayak4fish.com killed that site as everyone left.

For me

It started when I fished off my boat in the mid 2000's, I would see kayakers fishing Los Alamitos bay but never once thought about fishing from a kayak. I don't recall when I bought my first kayak but it was either late 2009 or mid 2010, that's right around the time that I started the Google search for kayak fishing and came across several sights, BWE seems to caught my attention and that's been my primary site since.

When I got laid off from my job at DHL I had to take a look at what assets I had and because my boat was paid off this was one of them. Having a kid in college, another in high school, a mortgage payment and making bad decisions with credit cards I had no choice but to sell my boat.........6000+ post later I'm still here.

Blast from the past. This was my first and second YT on the trusty Scrambler XT. Note the big ol Channel Island Chovie Fish Trap on the one rod. One of the fish ate that on the sink and the other ate a blue/white Ironman #3 on the 45 degree grind. No bait and wait fishing for me or FF for quite some time. My first 2 WSB came on the same Fish Trap 7 inch Channel Island Chovie.

http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwegall..._La_Jolla1.jpg

I joined in 2009 just to troll people.

Here's one of my first kayak fish on video... from back in the days when I fished a hobie tandem, and the dirty old scallywag wasn't yet banned from BWE hahaha

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Yahoo.com: kayak fishing

1st trip out
 

First time out ran into a guy at the docks at Dana Point. Started talking and here I am. Thank you for the info whoever that was!

I honestly can't even remember. I don't know why I do anymore...Every time I come around here I just get cyber bullied by Geritol JIM:the_finger:

Thanks, Iceman, and the BWE mods. Good thing going on here at BWE.com!!!!! Priceless!

For me, it was scsurffishing.com and a barely legal halibut from the point at Swamis that led me to wanna get in a boat. Well, the boat turned out to be my plastic boat and the bwe got me hooked.

I was drunk one night online trying to find big women's legs.... Stupid auto correct brought me here😣

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Been kayaking since the 70's - heck, back in those days people would point and stare as I paddled by - kayaks were a very unusual sight in those days, more associated with eskimos than anything else.

In the 80's there were a few informal kayaking clubs here in San Diego. We would get together and paddle or fish out of our touring boats on weekends.

I remember when the first rotomolded kayaks came out, and even though they were primitive by current standards, we saw great potential for fishing in them.

I was heavily involved in signing up for Ed Gillett's Baja trips through his Southwest Kayak shop in the late 80's and early 90's. Great trips that were super inexpensive as you were expected to feed and transport yourself. God I miss those trips, and his shop. There used to be a great emphasis on expedition kayaking here, which no longer exists. Hell, I wouldn't even know where to go to find a good expedition kayak anymore...

Plastic Navy came along next, and somewhere along the line I stopped kayaking for some years as I was doing other things. I'm sure an internet search lead me here when I got all hot and bothered about kayaking again.
In the intervening years nearly everything I had known disappeared and faded away. Ed and Katie closed up their shop and Ed went into teaching high school, all my old paddling buddies moved away or quit paddling. My touring kayaks sit in the rafters of the garage waiting for that next Baja tour that may never happen. Replacing them is a PA14 that I would have never dreamed of years ago...

I had read about kayak fishing about four years before my divorce, it looked like a cool adventure.

Once that mess cleared up stumble across another article about kayak fishing, which referenced this site, and decided to try it out.

Never looked back.

I got kicked out of Malibu Kayak sport fishing forum , for exposing white sea bass bites.:D

Found out about this site.... and stayed

Saw pictures from a Baja Trip kayak trip on Instagram from Tattua. It went down in the DM and he told me I could find lots of info on kayak trips to Baja right here...

Lurked, read and studied you all, took detailed notes as well attach cutouts of your faces to your profiles. Then joined the forum and was able to infiltrate the kayak fishing community.

Were you also drunk the day you set the refinery on fire?

How convenient...Can't remember how that fish ended up in your avatar too, right Pal?

:the_finger::banghead::stupid::puke::reddy:

He said Geritol Jim

I'm LOL-ing right now

Haha...whatever. Jay's HellBoy...big arm little pee pee...:the_finger:

It's been way too long for me to remember, but I'm sure Plastic Navy had something to do with me being here.

Started way back when...Kayakfishingfools. Many probably don't even remember that site. Fished numerous bay bass tournaments out of the Sailing Center when Rick owned it. Met a lot of great people who I am still friends with even though I don't kayak any longer since buying a boat. BWE and Kayak4fish were the birth of a new beginning and taught me everything I know about La Jolla Kayak fishing. I remember the days when it would just be me, my Dad (Longboard Steve), Jim Sammons on guided trip, Andy(Iceman), Brian(Lifeguardguy), John(Soulwinner) and maybe a few others chasing YT and WSB. The kayak community was so supportive when my Dad(LongboardSteve) passed away. Jim and I ran a huge charity tournament for the ACS with a lot of support from the BWE boys. I miss those day and especially miss my dad. Keep it going!:reel:

No sir... I swear I only had 2

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Haha! Much love holmes! We had some good times and there will be more to come eventually... so long as those daughters of yours don't admit your ass to a home by the time I come back.

Same same Brotha Jay...same same. :notworthy: