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How Do You Define "Skinny Water?"

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Roccus7
Roccus7MODnoreaster.com2020#1
I know it's all relative, I'm sure Oldmud would consider 20 fathoms "skinny water" when BFT fishing, but how do you folks define it? My definition is "Too shallow to enter without raising the engine until the trim lift switches over to main lift, which in my case is about 4 ft. Mind you, I bring my 22' boat into areas that I shouldn't, but if it's a mud bottom and the tide is coming in, I don't care. What's the worse that can happen, I give my bottom a mud bath??

Caught this 29" bad girl last night in a muddy cove on incoming with less than 3' of water in it. Just about every fish I've filleted here have grass shrimp in them and they're smaller here than LI, these are less than 1" long. The bass here eat so many most of the ones I catch have mud around their teeth.

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AdmiralOriginal Crew21,717 postsSince 2018
C
chunksterFREE2020#2
Nice fish it also has to do with sight fishing. 🙂

Fishing the skinny is a florida flats term used in the glades.
The history behind it is . . . . .

I took the family, wife and kids to blue bank. 😉

Captain1,969 postsSince 2020
Rick67
Rick67FREE2020#3
Under 20’ I consider skinny. As far as trolling in a kayak. Over 20’ that’s when experience is needed.
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CommodoreOriginal Crew6,097 postsSince 2019
Chinacat
ChinacatFREE2020#4
Under 20’ I consider skinny. As far as trolling in a kayak. Over 20’ that’s when experience is needed.
Not sure i agree with that
Given not much here on the South Shore of LI is over 20' I have a hard time calling the entire south shore bays "skinny"
I go with under 5' but thats just me....
At least I'm enjoyin' the ride.....
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,065 postsSince 2018
wader
waderFREE2020#5
when you're seeing bottom & just making it through without the keel hitting bottom
"Well, it's alright.
.............even if you're old and gray."
"Well, it's alright.
............you still got something to say."
AdmiralOriginal Crew20,900 postsSince 2018
WhatKnot
WhatKnotFREE2020#6
And you are kicking up some mud.
Be Safe
CommodoreOriginal Crew12,915 postsSince 2019
pequa1
pequa1MODnoreaster.com2020#7
when I run aground on my kayak...
Every day is Saturday.
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,034 postsSince 2018
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chunksterFREE2020#8
"A flats fisherman" "Fishing the flats"
Captain1,969 postsSince 2020
BennyV
BennyVFREE2020#9
I’d say 5 feet or less. Used to fish it often in my little yellow Jon dory.
CommodoreOriginal Crew5,665 postsSince 2018
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chunksterFREE2020#10
The Greek guy that lives in Italy.

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physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although
few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one
of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.




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