My 9 year old son turned me on to your videos and I must say they have become my favorite. I am loving the time and attention you put into keeping our Tampa waters and shores as beautiful as they can be. I took my yak out last night after watching your stuff for about 2hours I had no choice. The top water snook bite was crazy under the 41 bridge over the alafia once the late night incoming tide started moving.
I'm so impressed with your content. You gave all us subscribers an incredible tour of the Mangroves. I've been to Clearwater Beach at least 20 times. I've seen some paths from Google Maps always wondered if they were passable. It took a lot of guts & crazy to go deep into the Mangroves alone, but your good kind of craziness for adventure is why I watch your channel. Keep it coming.
I,ve been watching you videos for a little while now and i think they are the most helpful, cool, and absolutely great kayaking videos on the entire internet so please don't stop coming out with them
Marty, great video. The mangroves are such a unique eco-system. The estuary is totally alive. We need to be careful that it doesn't get destroyed. I too fish this area, and absolutely love fishing the east bay. I just recently got a yak, and follow your channel. Learning every day. Thanks for teaching me(us) and bringing out some creative genius in all of us as we mod our yaks!
Man that looks like it would be so awesome to take a kayak into that mangrove tunnel, bring a book or what have you, and just sit in your boat and relax. Oh man awesome, awesome nature.
Another great adventure, thanks for sharing. This past winter was my first time out with a kayak and after a few weeks I was doing a little of this same type of exploring on the east coast of Florida in the Mosquito Lagoon. Never thought much about the alligator and snake issue but now after reading some of the comments I'll definitely keep it in mind. I have no love for them and would not appreciate sharing my kayak with them.
Great video. Makes me want to get another kayak. Sold mine a few years back after it became difficult for me to load the 18' Seda. I have been in some tight places with my kayak before and once got stuck under a bridge when I first got the Seda. Had to back out and portage around. Thanks for posting and keep them coming. Will help me get through the winter.
I haven't seen every one of your vids yet, but this one was pretty special. You produced it well with the music and all. It set up the whole tension and drama thing and put the viewer right on the spot wondering if we'd make it through. Felt sort of like Nat Geo's Michael Foy doing the Congo transect....well done! Hope you caught some fish later!
Thanks, Greg. I couldn't get the skunk off the boat this day, but it was a good day on the water! I got video of the new trolley I had built and I managed these mangrove tunnels and I explored a few islands that had previously been too far for me to reach.
I live in Tampa/St Pete and these videos are so great and I enjoy them so much because its very relatable living here all my life and fishing around the same places. Really cool when you know where something is and have been there before. Great sharing places with other anglers.
Great sound effect. That place is so creepy to be kayaking alone. I was thinking that you're going to encounter a giant anaconda. Nice video Marty! Thanks for taking us for the ride!
This is one of my favorite vids of yours, so far! Your editing is really good and you have a pleasant voice for narrating, too. I felt like I was on that water trail with you...good show!
Another great episode! I was born in the country... Making trails on land... This I would not do, lol! for all of the reasons that did not stop you... But I know exploring had to be more fun than anything else. You have a lot of fun for us fans!
Love the videos man, your like the neighbor I never had. Wish there were more people like you around. Thanks for the google earth tip as well....I'm sure I'll be using it being that I'm new to the fishing out here in DFW area. God bless man and be safe out there.
Very neat..loved it..Thanks for sharing the ride with us..I don't think I would of done it.....without a couple friends egging me on...yea I hate the spider webs...great soundtrack..I may have fished several of those open spots just to see what may of been there or is there nothing in there....probably not....
Great Vid Z. We all have to remember that these mangro swamps have to be protected at the utmost.. This is the area all the little ones come from. Great job buddy
Congrats on 100K subs. I love the creepy music you picked for the tight spots. Now if you want to turn the creepy scale up to 100 do this trip at night!
Golly Marty , I'm so claustrophobic there is no way I could do that . I would have thought I was entering the Gauntlet of no return . It looks like the Hobie did well . I've been debating on the Hobie PA12 or the new to be released Predator XL . I'll keep watching and learning on your adventures . Thanks Again love your video's .
Another nice outing buddy! My concern was the draft of those fins under the yak. I guess they don't go down extremely far? And yeah, Google Earth is an awesome program! That's how we figure out new spots, how far we paddle on trips and sometimes, if we are careless in the creeks, how to get back! Lol
If you push either peddle all the way forward, the fins hug the bottom of the boat. Otherwise they hang down a foot or so. I need to get some underwater footage of them soon...
great stuff reminded me of a small river squeeze we tried to do on rowing boat not too long ago on this beautiful natural park in eastern Finland did not get too far down stream cos of all of the logs going across the stream but still the small stream was full of fish so definitely worth the sweating.
its not always about the fish and i think this little trip among the mangroves proves that, sometimes the experience of actually being out there in nature experiencing the different shades of its beauty can be as memorable as the sound of a screaming reel.
damn marty you sure have a couple miles in that kayak already lol! you go out pretty far! on that thing lol and next time you go through those mangroves bring a machete and chop your way through!!! lol
That was excellent. Now we know if we never hear from you again what happened to you. I have similar small canals I've been wanting to explore, now I'm going to do it. I'd be wary of the gators though, there's now where to run- they gotcha if they want you.
hey Marty, Dylan is a great inspiration for anyone that makes videos. Did you watch the one where he went crabbing with the youngster rowing a boat. Dylan is an amazing videographer and story teller, but has an unusual style of interviewing people. He said in the beginning the boy was going to take him out on his boat crabbing, and I wondered to myself if the boy would be bringing Dylan back. The video is funny as it ends at an odd moment and I was left wondering if he did get marooned after all. Still, he is leaving a wonderful video legacy for the people of his country. Years from now they will see what they used to have. and be glad Dylan recorded it for them.
Very cool video! When you get a chance, can you give us a tour of the new Yak? Especially the propulsion system and how you steer (ruder I'm guessing). Sure am enjoying your adventures.
Nice hat ! Go gators! And great video I was thinking about getting a kayak myself can't afford a boat but still want to get out on the intercostal I was thinking about looking on craigslist ,but your kayak videos are really awesome so I was wondering if you had any suggestions?
Marty, that looks awesome! One thing I'd love for you to do is go through with a fish finder just to check out the depth of these things. Maybe come across a pocket that holds fish? Also, it certainly looks like the perfect place to hide a body lol.
Wow Marty what a great adventurous ride, the suspense, music, narrative was well done. I felt as thou I was along for the trip. Great video!!! Did you happen to see any bait movement?
There were mullet near the entrance of the tunnel. That's about it. Inside it was quiet. Real quiet! Reminded me of snowstorms up north that muffle the sound of the world. It was spooky.
Do you usually keep a paddle on board in case the fins start hitting bottom? How durable are the fins when it comes to bumping into rocks, stumps and other underwater hazards?
I've never really seen peddle kayaks so could you do a review of how they work? That would be awesome to see and like if you run aground with them what happens
You make THE best kayak videos. Excellent footage and EDITING. Thanks so much. Really enjoy your stuff.
fltcrew21 Thanks :^)
My 9 year old son turned me on to your videos and I must say they have become my favorite. I am loving the time and attention you put into keeping our Tampa waters and shores as beautiful as they can be. I took my yak out last night after watching your stuff for about 2hours I had no choice. The top water snook bite was crazy under the 41 bridge over the alafia once the late night incoming tide started moving.
That's pretty cool. See you out there someday perhaps :)
This is one of my favorite kayak videos of all time! Well done!!
I'm so impressed with your content. You gave all us subscribers an incredible tour of the Mangroves. I've been to Clearwater Beach at least 20 times. I've seen some paths from Google Maps always wondered if they were passable. It took a lot of guts & crazy to go deep into the Mangroves alone, but your good kind of craziness for adventure is why I watch your channel. Keep it coming.
Good kind of crazy...I like that :^)
I,ve been watching you videos for a little while now and i think they are the most helpful, cool, and absolutely great kayaking videos on the entire internet so please don't stop coming out with them
Marty, great video. The mangroves are such a unique eco-system. The estuary is totally alive. We need to be careful that it doesn't get destroyed.
I too fish this area, and absolutely love fishing the east bay. I just recently got a yak, and follow your channel. Learning every day. Thanks for teaching me(us) and bringing out some creative genius in all of us as we mod our yaks!
Man that looks like it would be so awesome to take a kayak into that mangrove tunnel, bring a book or what have you, and just sit in your boat and relax. Oh man awesome, awesome nature.
Another great adventure, thanks for sharing. This past winter was my first time out with a kayak and after a few weeks I was doing a little of this same type of exploring on the east coast of Florida in the Mosquito Lagoon. Never thought much about the alligator and snake issue but now after reading some of the comments I'll definitely keep it in mind. I have no love for them and would not appreciate sharing my kayak with them.
Great video. Makes me want to get another kayak. Sold mine a few years back after it became difficult for me to load the 18' Seda. I have been in some tight places with my kayak before and once got stuck under a bridge when I first got the Seda. Had to back out and portage around. Thanks for posting and keep them coming. Will help me get through the winter.
I haven't seen every one of your vids yet, but this one was pretty special. You produced it well with the music and all. It set up the whole tension and drama thing and put the viewer right on the spot wondering if we'd make it through. Felt sort of like Nat Geo's Michael Foy doing the Congo transect....well done! Hope you caught some fish later!
Thanks, Greg. I couldn't get the skunk off the boat this day, but it was a good day on the water! I got video of the new trolley I had built and I managed these mangrove tunnels and I explored a few islands that had previously been too far for me to reach.
I admire your spirit of adventure. Looks like something I might have done a few years back. Keep up the quest.
I live in Tampa/St Pete and these videos are so great and I enjoy them so much because its very relatable living here all my life and fishing around the same places. Really cool when you know where something is and have been there before. Great sharing places with other anglers.
I knew you were going to love that PA. Great choice. Enjoy many great adventures on it.
Great sound effect. That place is so creepy to be kayaking alone. I was thinking that you're going to encounter a giant anaconda. Nice video Marty! Thanks for taking us for the ride!
Wow and double wow. Marty and Hobie= Lewis and Clark!!
Wow, excellent video! Thanks for taking me on the journey, a little unnerving at times, glad we made it :-)
I would have been freaking out ,give you credit.great video thanks for sharing
What a great adventure. Thanks for taking us along for the ride :)
This is one of my favorite vids of yours, so far! Your editing is really good and you have a pleasant voice for narrating, too. I felt like I was on that water trail with you...good show!
Thanks, Cathy. This was one of my favs to make also :)
Another great episode! I was born in the country... Making trails on land... This I would not do, lol! for all of the reasons that did not stop you...
But I know exploring had to be more fun than anything else. You have a lot of fun for us fans!
:^D I remember hearing you mention your dislike of snakes in one of your videos and thought you might not have done the mangrove tunnel thing!
Cool video. It reminds me of places I used to fish/guide in the Everglades. I had break down paddles for tunnels and to clear the spider webs:)
Awsome marty, i've been fishiing that back area now for a while but never had the balls to follow that one thru like you. Thumbs up!
pretty gutsy trip, ahhhh to be young again. At 74 I am a bit over the hill for that kind of trip. Good video, real .. reality show.
Thanks, James. Today I turned 43. I hope I have a bunch more years of hijinks left in me ;^)
You will, I was at my prime at 50, medical issues have changed that.
I think the sound effects are so cool and funny ! Great video , expecting more vids
Nice adventure out there Marty. Looked like some fun for sure.
Just saw this one for the first time. What an adventure!!
Awesome Video Marty love the show kept up what ur doing
Love your videos! keep em coming
very cool. i'm a wyoming guy that hasn't really been anywhere. thanks for sharing this!
Love the videos man, your like the neighbor I never had. Wish there were more people like you around. Thanks for the google earth tip as well....I'm sure I'll be using it being that I'm new to the fishing out here in DFW area. God bless man and be safe out there.
Awesome video. You are turning into the kayak fishing version of Les Stroud.
Very nice and great play with eerie music.
Very neat..loved it..Thanks for sharing the ride with us..I don't think I would of done it.....without a couple friends egging me on...yea I hate the spider webs...great soundtrack..I may have fished several of those open spots just to see what may of been there or is there nothing in there....probably not....
The yak seems to fit you nicely keep up the a adventures of the crazy man in a kayak
So cool! I am glad you didnt have to turn around after all the hard work lol
make sure you make more fishing vids when you can! I always enjoy watching them!
Love your vids man !
Love the music and narration... It's happy then doom and gloom... Then happy... Then gloom and doom... More suspense then most movies have, lol!
Love your vids marty! keep it coming
In my 64 years in Florida have never seen snakes in a salt water environment. Plenty of sand gnats and mosquitoes but no snakes.
Great video as always.
Awesome vid as always
nice vid man, all that maters is that at the end of the day your were happy. looks like you had a good time! anyway good video
Brilliant Video.
Great video Marty
Great Vid Z. We all have to remember that these mangro swamps have to be protected at the utmost.. This is the area all the little ones come from.
Great job buddy
Great Video.
I plan on exploring your area this Winter with one of my yaks.
music at 4:40 had me gripping my seat tight. nice vid Marty
i love ur videos keep it up!!
Nice video, thanks for share. Congrats.
The music affect & transitions were great.
I'm on the other side of the bay in St Pete. I've found a couple tunnels but nothing that long. Cool vid!
Good one Marty..!!!
looks a great spot to set some crab pots...great vids zoffinger
Just the best video :) adventure and the coolest fishing machine in the World
Congrats on 100K subs. I love the creepy music you picked for the tight spots. Now if you want to turn the creepy scale up to 100 do this trip at night!
Golly Marty , I'm so claustrophobic there is no way I could do that . I would have thought I was entering the Gauntlet of no return . It looks like the Hobie did well . I've been debating on the Hobie PA12 or the new to be released Predator XL . I'll keep watching and learning on your adventures . Thanks Again love your video's .
Something tells me you are going to sell a lot of Pro Anglers for Hobie! Great video as always.
I was planning for a big rig By jackson but
Hello Zoffinger i love your videos they are great i will post some videos this week of my trip at matlacha and pine island!!!
Another nice outing buddy! My concern was the draft of those fins under the yak. I guess they don't go down extremely far? And yeah, Google Earth is an awesome program! That's how we figure out new spots, how far we paddle on trips and sometimes, if we are careless in the creeks, how to get back! Lol
If you push either peddle all the way forward, the fins hug the bottom of the boat. Otherwise they hang down a foot or so. I need to get some underwater footage of them soon...
Nice trekking!
"Back into the trees" Lmao ^_^ Award-winning suspense right there \m/
Cool stuff.
you are very adventurous man. you gave me anxiety. LOL Great Video!
haha. That's how it felt. A few times I thought I made a mistake going in there!
Great video--You might have called it "Into the Heart of Darkness, Mangrove Edition."
great stuff reminded me of a small river squeeze we tried to do on rowing boat not too long ago on this beautiful natural park in eastern Finland did not get too far down stream cos of all of the logs going across the stream but still the small stream was full of fish so definitely worth the sweating.
I didn't get any fish this day but the adventure was worth the effort :)
its not always about the fish and i think this little trip among the mangroves proves that, sometimes the experience of actually being out there in nature experiencing the different shades of its beauty can be as memorable as the sound of a screaming reel.
You are the man
Great vid, I have subscribed.
damn marty you sure have a couple miles in that kayak already lol! you go out pretty far! on that thing lol and next time you go through those mangroves bring a machete and chop your way through!!! lol
one word my friend......MACHETE' can be your friend in times like that!!!
that looks like fun
That was excellent. Now we know if we never hear from you again what happened to you. I have similar small canals I've been wanting to explore, now I'm going to do it. I'd be wary of the gators though, there's now where to run- they gotcha if they want you.
Omg you not worry about snake all this cool really cool dude
An adventurer indeed
Hahaha...the music. Nice videos. Some big mangrove forests up there in the Tampa area. Think I'm going to download google earth myself.
Great video very exciting and kind of suspenseful lol, Is he or is he not going to make it lol
most excellent! How did you get back?
Good use of Google earth and enjoyed the music in the tight spots, fun video Marty.
Our friend at 'Keep Turning Left' keyed me into how to get the Google Earth footage!
hey Marty, Dylan is a great inspiration for anyone that makes videos. Did you watch the one where he went crabbing with the youngster rowing a boat. Dylan is an amazing videographer and story teller, but has an unusual style of interviewing people. He said in the beginning the boy was going to take him out on his boat crabbing, and I wondered to myself if the boy would be bringing Dylan back. The video is funny as it ends at an odd moment and I was left wondering if he did get marooned after all. Still, he is leaving a wonderful video legacy for the people of his country. Years from now they will see what they used to have. and be glad Dylan recorded it for them.
Yes,Google Earth is a great resource for those that are scouting out spots.
Very cool video! When you get a chance, can you give us a tour of the new Yak? Especially the propulsion system and how you steer (ruder I'm guessing). Sure am enjoying your adventures.
I'm gonna work on that, KR
Nice hat ! Go gators! And great video I was thinking about getting a kayak myself can't afford a boat but still want to get out on the intercostal I was thinking about looking on craigslist ,but your kayak videos are really awesome so I was wondering if you had any suggestions?
you the man
That was bad to the bone very cool let me tell you all the way from New Mexico keep exploring!!! Bad A$$
well done... !
Reminded me of one of those survival shows on Discovery channel.
Marty, that looks awesome!
One thing I'd love for you to do is go through with a fish finder just to check out the depth of these things. Maybe come across a pocket that holds fish?
Also, it certainly looks like the perfect place to hide a body lol.
Hahaha.
Wow Marty what a great adventurous ride, the suspense, music, narrative was well done. I felt as thou I was along for the trip. Great video!!! Did you happen to see any bait movement?
There were mullet near the entrance of the tunnel. That's about it. Inside it was quiet. Real quiet! Reminded me of snowstorms up north that muffle the sound of the world. It was spooky.
How did you get back and any fish caught that trip. I thought I saw one break water in that tiny canal.
That looks like a cool place to yak! And maybe a bit spooky. I'll give ya that. Lol!
Do you usually keep a paddle on board in case the fins start hitting bottom? How durable are the fins when it comes to bumping into rocks, stumps and other underwater hazards?
Very nice video! Is it a PA 12 or 14?
I've never really seen peddle kayaks so could you do a review of how they work? That would be awesome to see and like if you run aground with them what happens
Nice!
Exhilerating to say the least, my friend!
I just liked my own comment
That's it, I'm getting me one!!
Here in Texas there are all kinds of spiders in every hanging tree branch. How did you resist throwing a lure in all that,looked good.
You should create some kind of kayak club for group fishing and exploring Tampa bay rivers... I'll be the first member LOL
Great video I'm not far from there where exactly is this place???Thank you.
Z Mango man you are quite adventurous, I would have had the heebie geebies in there!!
Sure would be great if that thing had reverse, huh? I couldn't see how you steer. Does it have a rudder or are you steering with the paddle?