A little washing up liquid on the leader will cut through surface tension and allow your leader to cut through the water like a knife. I use the eco friendly products available from most supermarkets.
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A few considerations for you when look to fish from a KAYAK.
Buy a set of wheels for your yak! I know you can carry it down to the beach, but with trolley wheels you can load everything into it, Rods, BA, Bait, Paddle etc and just trundle down to the waters edge. It makes life very easy!
Make sure you have a paddle leash. This will prevent the paddle floating away from you when you drop it.
When you are ready to fish or move around on your Kayak for the first time, stay seated, put the paddle across the boat but under your knees, so it looks like a wing. As you move side to side the paddle will dip in the sea and damp the movement, increasing your stability. It works like a mini outrigger.
Buy another paddle leash for your rod. I would hate to capsize and loose my rod on the first day because it was not attached!
Get some lip salve!
I would like to know what you think is the most important Kayak accessory.
I would like to build this list to help those out there who are considering getting into the sport of kayak fishing but do not know which kayak accessory to spend their hard earned money on.
There is so much on the market these days which is meant to “save time” and “save effort” but what are the really good bits of kit out there on the market.
Kayak fishing is the largest growth market in Kayak sales currently, why is this?
Well fishing has stayed so similar for so many years. You would get your rod and head to the local beach or pier and go fishing, casting your line into the water that hundreds of people before you have done. The marks for Sea Angling have become well trodden. Meeting another 50 anglers on a mark is not uncommon these days. What is the fun in that!
Charter boats and boat owning are the chance to get away and fish new grounds. The problem with them is the fact they are expensive to run. They often require more than one person to get them in the water. You only have certain days when you can go out. If your boat is on a mooring you only have the local area to fish in, unless you spend 30% of your time steaming to a new fishing ground.
Kayak fishing puts all these problems behind you. OK the cost of buying the gear required to go Kayak fishing is quite high. I reckon its cost me about £550 give or take. Compare this to a days Charter fishing at approx £45 that’s 12 trips and my Kayak is paid for, considering these modern Kayaks can last upto 16 years that’s a pretty fair investment in my eyes.
My kakay fishing rods arrived today as promised from Richie! after I posted here about my new rods
This fella is a great ebay seller and I would recommend him to anyone! Here is a link to his fishing rods.
Anyway the first kayak fishing rod is a SHIMANO solara 6 ft baitcasting rod,
- Model Number SLC-60M2
- 7 Aluminium oxide lined rings
- Durable Aeroglass construction rod blank
- Graphite reel seat
- Comfortable cork handles
- Convenient hook keeper ( Base of top handle )
- Trigger grip
- Line weight 6-15lb
- Lure weight 1/4 - 3/4oz
- Power Medium Read the rest of this entry »
I took my Kayak out fishing today but I blanked!
Its true, I went to a local surf beach and did about 3 drifts, about 1 mile long each one right across the back of the surf thinking there might be chance of a Bass or Turbot from the fishing kayak (I know a few have come in off this beach recently)
I had to take care not to get caught in a wave that might surf me back in as I don’t want to snap my rods again!! The long shore drift and wind direction were just right, taking my Kayak parallel to the beach at about .5 to 1.2 knts.
My rig for the bass was a simple running ledger with 2 oz of lead and an 8ft fluro carbon leader, with sand eel as bait on my new bait casting rod. The new rod worked a treat and was very sensitive, I would just like to catch a fish on it now.
The Prowler 13 is the smaller version of the popular Prowler 15 from Ocean Kayak. The Prowler 13 Kayak packs in all the features that you need, deck rigging, paddle keepers, oversized tank well and large cockpit. The Angler Prowler 13 designed for fishing also has added features such as a padded seat, mounted rod holders and a tackle box.
The Prowlers hull shape tracks well yet it is easy to manoeuvre and provides excellent stability.
The reports I am reading about this fishing kayak are great. It seems to be very stable allowing you to fish with ease when you are in a short chop. For those of you who haven’t got good balance this Kayak might be better suited for you. Its stability also allows you to enter it more easily when on the water. I have read a few reports that state this is a ‘DRY’ fishing kayak, meaning the kayak displaces water away from the cockpit. This kayak tracks well and has good glide and low hull slap. There are many ways you can convert this kayak into a true fishing monster. Read the rest of this entry »
I had the chance of trying both these Kayaks out on Friday and here are the results.
The RTM Mambo is a Kayak I was thinking of buying before I bought my RTM Disco. The Mambo is very stable. In fact it was so stable I was able to stand on it in 2 foot surf and ride the wave in! I could do almost anything I wanted on it and not fall out. Compare this to my Disco which is more unstable, which at times I find hard to turn behind myself to put the rods in the holders without loosing balance. The RTM Mambo did have an amount of hull slap and was noisy. With regard to tracking it was good, nothing like as good as my Disco but for its short length I was impressed. The glide was OK, a little pedestrian but you could manage quite nicely and for coast hugging it would serve you well.
Sorry I haven’t posted for a few days, but I managed to go out on an 8hr Kayak fishing session. The tides were poor, fishing a small tide all the way down, but the weather was great and the sea conditions were really good. This is the first real long trip I have had in the fishing Kayak and I have been a bit sore since.
The fishing was OK, not great. I managed about 4 Wrasse, 4 Mackerel and a host of small Bass. The Wrasse fell to my Mackerel lures baited with Lug worm, The Mackerel were hard to catch, they were 20 – 25 foot deep and took hockeye lures. The Bass all took a J11 Rapala.
The Bass fishing was great sport on my ultra light spinning rod, but the largest was about 1.5lb in weight, so they all went back unharmed!!
I was looking around at a few kayak fishing blogs and I found this great article for a live bait stroage system for your Kayak.
The thing I like is how easy it is to make, simplicity its self.Take a look here Easy live bait cooler
