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I thought I would pass along a couple of pictures of a few nice reds that I landed recently. For anyone that understands stalking reds, they should know that poling up on them, not waving your paddle, is the way to go. Your stake out pole is a tool I could not do without.

Hey Stan,
Last weekend down at the Charlotte Harbor Slam Paddlers tournament we got on some spooky redfish, using the stake out poles to pole us were were able to
get close enough to catch them. I ended up winning the tournament with a
79'' slam. I attached a picture of the boat I won down at the tournament.
Tight lines
Cameron

CaptDick finally took some time for a night time trip to Lake Lanier for some Striper fishing. Steve, aka Hung One, invited me to join him to try the Bomber Long A fishing technique. We were able to catch a couple of stripers and HO caught and released several spotted bass in addition to a nice striper. Fishing was a little slow due to the bright moon. Fishing at night from the yak was a lot of fun. The Prowler Big Game proved again to be a very stable platform with a great deck layout. I was able to cruise at 3.6-3.7mph.

Dec 2006 - Charlie King, aka Flatfish Charlie, from the Houston, TX area shows off a very nice 28.5 inch trout. The big trout fell for a Devil Eye soft plastic by Brown Lures. Charlie was fishing a deeper hole in a canal where last December he caught his previous best trout, a 27 incher. Charlie released the trout after the pic was taken. Way to go, Charlie ! Click here for more of the story.

Oct 2006 - Email from the winner of a CDE StakeOutPole donated to the TKAA Yak Fishing Tournament

Captain Dick - I just wanted to drop you a shout to thank you for
donating one of your fine stake out poles to the recent TKAA charity
fishing event in VA. Myself being a previous customer of your
offerings and knowing of the quality of your S.O.P. I was more than
glad to win it and am looking forward to putting it to good use. We
had about 45 entries and collected just over $2,500 for the two
charities. I believe a good time was had by all, decent fishing and
superb weather.

Best regards,

Philip Ruckart
Mebane, NC
AKA - yak4fish

Dec 2005 - Shane "Cubs83", and David "Wadefisher616", members of the Heritage Kayak Fishing Team, co-sponsored by CaptDick Enterprises, won 2nd place in the "Slam" category at the recent EEF Tournament in Sarasota, Fl. Shane and David prefished the tournament waters several times. They then developed a fishing strategy, stuck to that plan and made it work on tournament day. The Slam is for the most total inches of Redfish, Sea Trout, and Snook. Although their individual fish were different lengths, the total length for each angler was an identical 64 inches. Congratulations to Shane and David for a job well done.

Wadefisher caught this nice Red while prefishing the EEF Titusville, FL tournament. Unfortunately he was not able to duplicate the catch tournament day. For more on the story and more pics click here.

6-18-2005 Patrick and David ventured out to the famed Boca Grande Pass looking for some action. Their story and more photos can be seen by clicking here

CaptDick recently received this picture of David McCleaf and the following email. For more on the story and more pictures click here.

We met him in the wildest of circumstances....even though we live close by, it was our first day ever tarpon fishing off the west coast of Sanibel, Florida. He signaled us over to his kayak and asked us if we could take a few photos for him with his camera, because he had hooked into a tarpon, and he said his friends would never believe him..............well, as a more successful photographer more than a fisherman that day, we said sure. He passed over his camera, and we hung out waiting for the fish to resurface again. We had already seen it jump once from afar. Well, long story short, we backed over our own trolling line, and had to stop for about 15 minutes to untangle the prop..............while we drifted one way, the tarpon was pulling the kayak all over the gulf. When we finally caught up about 15 minutes later, we managed to take photos of the kayak on mine and his camera, but the fish was not up, so we weren't able to capture that for him.........but anyone who is trusting enough to pass along a camera to total strangers, who then seemed to disappear with it for 15 minutes, deserves a testiment to the adventure they were having being pulled all about the gulf of Mexico by a tarpon. It really was shades of Hemingway.