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gdavis · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:09 pm Post subject: Baffin question

Hope you and yours are having a good thanksgiving. Let's all enjoy watching the Cowboys knock the Panthers off of their high horse this afternoon. Ok, with that out of the way, I have a question for people who learned Baffin recently. I cruise a Mako 17 pro skiff and I'm trying to start learning Baffin. Usually I launch from bird island and I've gotten to learn the KRS and Laguna pretty well, but I know there are crazy rock hazards in Baffin Bay. My question is, besides going out and running into rocks, are there any other tools you guys used to learn Baffin Bay? I've got a GPS and hook and line charts. I'm just wondering if there's anything else better.

gdavis · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:06 pm Post subject:

Just to clarify, I want to learn how to run through Baffin without smashing into rocks... I'm not asking for fishing spots or locations, just for tools used to navigate through the areas in Baffin. Most of the nautical charts I've seen just show the ICW and mouth of the bay. Just seeing if there is anything out there that can help a new boater putt around with some confidence.

shallowsport · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:13 pm Post subject:

Get a map. Getting into Baffin from the north can be tricky. Follow someone else, with moderation, and lay down some safe tracks.
The shoreline is MOSTLY safe but Baffin is tricky.
Good luck and be safe.
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gdavis · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:59 pm Post subject:

What kind of map do you recommend?

CopanoCruisin · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 7:02 pm Post subject:

Top Spot maps............cC

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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:33 pm Post subject:

You may have seen this... Or not. Lot's of good info on your question.
http://www.stxmaps.com/go/baffin-bay-fishing.html
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gdavis · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the advice y'all.

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

spend about 40 hours staring at google earth... a significant portion of the rocks are visible, especially from badlands to east kleberg. not 100%, but a lot of them are there.

stick to the ICW, and cut in Riviera channel, then putt north or south off Riviera to get where you're going until you have been in and out enough to establish some good tracks.

5moreminutes · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:35 am Post subject:

I have the cheap Garmin 441s? And it shows the rocks in baffin. Of course not all of them but it helps.
Plus you can save your tracks to get you in and out.

Also remember the tide. What is safe today may not be safe tomorrow.

I've drifted the badlands and have marked rocks as much as possible.
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Baffinboy · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:54 pm Post subject:

Stay in the channel and you will never hit a rock. When you turn to go to a rock pile slow down before you think you need to until you learn. Remember low tide bang bang bang
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o_brother · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:24 pm Post subject:

Along with the advice others have given you, get a push pole as well so you can use it to test the water depth and feel for rocks when the water is stirred up and dirty. Try to go in when the wind hasn't been blowing and the water is clearer. On clear water days, you can see the rocks that are close to the surface. On the South Shore just inside the mouth of Baffin, you will find rocks out as far as several hundred yards from the shore that will be in 5 to 6 foot of water depending on the tide. Those rocks will reach up almost to the surface..... Use the channel markers to go in and out of the mouth of Baffin... There are shallow reefs on both sides going in.... Go slow and watch the water level when you are in there. You can find rocks at low tides that you may never see during normal or high tides....
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irbjd · Joined: 28 Feb 2012 Posts: 4

Go to Google Earth and map the rocks you can see. Don't mark them individually, mark them in clumps. Then convert the data to a form your GPS will accept and transfer to your GPS.

lagunarat1975 · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:52 pm Post subject:

you need to either get your maps and do a lot of putting aroung and put in your time or hire a guide a few times to get the general lay of the land many guides will captain your boat thus leaving gps tracks to get in and out of spots be straight forward with guide tell him you are wanting to learn new areas many guides will accommodate you. its either time on the water , guides ,or new lower units there is no easy button for that bay system
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