Dock Fishing at Cap’n Popeye’s

A lot of fishing goes on over at Cap’n Popeye’s dock. Cap’n Popeye fishes off the dock quite a bit himself and Mr. Kenny is a mainstay when he is in town. Kid’s of friends come by and fish without warning, and when there are get-togethers on the bayou the kids always fish off the dock. They love it. Nothing like reeling in a nice redfish, trout, or catfish. Sometimes you can even hook an alligator, but I’ll leave that fish story for Cap’n Popeye.

I’m starting a new series of videos that will feature dock fishing at Popeye’s. When someone comes over to fish I’ll find out what kind of fishing they are doing and then work a fish story out of em. I got the idea today from watching some unintended dock fishing video that I made after the first kayak fishing trip on Bastrop Bayou several weeks ago. It was right after I scored the new Ocean Drifter Kayaks and me and Popeye took the yaks out on the bayou while Mr. Kenny fished off the pier.

We were mainly just trying out the kayaks in prep for going into Christmas Bay but we wanted to catch some fish too. We were slinging cow liver towards the bank and never got a bite. Most of our effort was spent keeping the boats from drifting off course and by the time we got the hang of it and was doing some serious fishing the sun began to set over the horizon. We are not scared of the dark, but it is nice to be able to see what you’re doing.

Back at the dock, Mr. Kenny was slinging the same cow liver but he was tearing up the catfish. He’d already let several small ones go and had a big one in the bucket. I filmed his second keeper of the evening.

I was just messing around with the Lumix FZ50’s video capabilities when I recording the video; I wasn’t even intending to use it for anything I was just trying to see how the Lumix recorded at night. Now looking at the several clips again after having used the PowerDirector video editing software a few times, I can see how I can turn an hour of crap into a few minutes of something that might be entertaining.

Here is the prototype for Dock Fishing at Popeye’s. It’s just a mashup of some old clips but the next episode will be filmed to purposefully fit the format. Character sketch, A little about fishing, A fish story, Catch a fish or two. End.