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As season Oars man myself - I could give advice but I will refrain..
and lol @ Tyson so much fail in this thread..just wow
It just depends how early in the day you hook up. It could be a 4 or 5 hour sleigh ride on a big marlin or tuna till you wear them out. Sailfish probably an hour. on a Marlin I'd probably just do an IGFA release and leader it and release it...I'm not trying to pull a thrashing 300# marlin into the yak for a picture. Got my ass kicked by a green 90# sailfish a couple months ago on a big boat doing a photo op. I intentionally brought him in fast to get a picture and release him healthy and he was a little too healthy.
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As season Oars man myself - I could give advice but I will refrain..
and lol @ Tyson so much fail in this thread..just wow
I own a timeshare in Hawaii but I'll probably sell it soon the fishing out there should be good......Bora Bora in Tahiti is my next destination...
sweet!!! i just signed up for a gig in hawaii where i get to witness the autopsy of shark attack victims!
Why would you wanna go deep sea fishing in a kayak?that sounds miserable
Shouldn't you be upstairs ing about the refs still got?
You a loser, bro
Dude it's great. We've been kayak fishing for about 10 years now and I enjoy it a lot more than going out in a $30k boat. You're right on the water and can go in 2 inches of water so you can get back in the marshes where the big boy reds like to hide. When you hook up to a big fish they drag you around (Texas Sleigh Ride). It's a much more intimate experience with nature. I've had reds try to take my lures literally 1 foot from my feet in the kayak when I'm reeling back in to cast back out.I never would have thought fishing and kayak together in the same sentence.
I'm super comfortable in my rigged out Malibu kayaks, but not crazy about going out in the middle of the ocean yet. Not scared of sharks or anything since I'm already used to watching my ass for big gators but strong currents, crazy weather, too far away from land...I don't know about that!
I've never "big game" fished, but I'd be kinda iffy about how far out a huge ass swordfish would drag me out once hooked up.
Last edited by BlairForceDejuan; 06-19-2012 at 05:24 AM.
I just thought of a question. After the Texas sleigh ride is over (sounds like fun! LOL). What do you do? Smash the fish over the head? Where do you put a big ass shark/swordfish/etc? Do you lash it to the side of your boat? Do they wake you up and drag you some more?
to start with, I never kill billfish...just line them, quick picture, and release them. As far as a big tuna, wahoo, etc. will just have to play that one by ear...typically you gaff them and then drag them in with you...I don't seriously expect to catch a multi-hundred pound ahi tuna but it would be fun to sleigh ride if I did...
Awesome photo…That is about what I watched in Cayucos…
The line running down the middle of the photo adds authenticity, imo
LOL I didn't say it was real Blake. I could just imagine that happening.
I have never done any kayaking, much less less kayaking with a fishing pole. I assume just the kayaking itself is a monster upper body workout (would love to take one out to Yellowstone Lake, Thousand Island Lake up in the Sierras, or maybe Jackson or Jenny Lake out in Grand Teton some day).
It IS a real photo. It was taken off the coast of Africa.
Done properly it's not as tough as you would think...it's not like paddling a boat...basically you hold the paddle almost straight out in front of you and then roll your shoulders bending at the waist and use your back muscles. The kayaks aren't as resistant to motion as you would expect.
its actually 2 pictures.
It's not. That's a photo of a magazine. It was originally published in 2005 in Africa Geographic. The guy in the kayak is a biologist doing research on the sharks.
why does each side look so different if its one photo?
It's a full two page photo in a magazine. The line is the fold in the magazine.
The picture is real.
it looks like the landscape matches perfectly, yet the skyline doesn't. nor does some water ripples.
*sigh*
This amazing photograph shows a great white shark trailing a man in a sea kayak. The photograph's caption explains:
Sitting in a 3.8 meter sea kayak and watching a four meter great white approach you is a fairly tense experience.
Although some have doubted its authenticity, the photograph is genuine. It was taken from the September 2005 issue of Africa Geographic. The article details a study of Great White Sharks in South Africa by biologists Michael C. Scholl and Thomas P. Peschak. Kayaks were used to study the sharks because, unlike the motorized research vessel, they could manoeuvre more easily in shallow or treacherous water and had no engine noise to disturb the sharks' natural behaviours. The authors explain more about the incident shown in the photograph:
Although we had extensively tested the sharks' reactions to an empty kayak and had observed no signs of aggression, this gave us little comfort as we eyed a great white heading straight for us, albeit slowly. Just a metre or so from the craft it veered off, circled and slowly approached from behind. It did this several times, occasionally lifting its head out of the water to get a better look. Then it lost interest, and as it continued on its way we were able to follow a short distance behind. Once we'd come to terms with having nothing between ourselves and a four-metre shark except a thin layer of plastic, our kayak made an ideal research platform for observing great white behaviour in shallow water.
The article provides a very interesting insight into Great White Sharks and includes a number of other excellent photographs.
This photograph, along with other shark photographs taken by Michael Scholl and Thomas Peschak, was later reused as part of an April Fools joke perpetrated by a French magazine. After its publication, the story - a fanciful tale involving a Great White Shark's devotion to a kindly fisherman who once saved its life - began circulating via email and the Internet as a slide show.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/shark-fol...-kayaker.shtml
Yeah. You'd be surprised how easily Kayaks glide on the water. It's not really a hard workout at all unless you are paddling into the wind. If it's strong winds, it sucks heh. Once you get going you really only have to paddle once every couple seconds to keep gliding.
In kayaks though you can get superrrrrr close to fish, whereas in a big loud boat even with a trolling motor you will scare them away comparatively. The only downside is you can't blast across to the other side of the bay if the fish aren't biting.
Hey, I'm just stating facts about your failure of a life. I bet your mom was real proud that her son became a druggie taco bell manager working for 10$ an hour at 27 with a bas child
You a loser, bro
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