Florida third report - smooth puffer

[SoCalEDC]

Cool, thanks for the report. that is such a cool fishery. What depths are you guys working in off the coast there?

P.S. Is that an Eddyline that Ally is dragging down to the water? If so, have you paddled it and how was it?

[BenCantrell]

Originally Posted by SoCalEDC

Cool, thanks for the report. that is such a cool fishery. What depths are you guys working in off the coast there?

P.S. Is that an Eddyline that Ally is dragging down to the water? If so, have you paddled it and how was it?

Thanks, appreciate it. All of the artificial reefs were 35 ft. As a rough approximation, in my Garmin screenshot if you can see dark reef it's 10-15 ft, if you can't it's 20-25 ft, and once it transitions to Google Earth's depth map it's a constant 35 ft.

Yes on the Eddyline. I've paddled it once - it's much lighter than my Trident. If you paddle hard you can get it up to 5 mph very quickly, but it doesn't track as well, and it does kind of a weird shudder when you go through the surf or over large boat wakes. It's great for the intercoastal, but I wouldn't recommend it for open ocean.