Ever wonder what a whale would look like on the sonar?

[chris138]

Got out last week on a slow day. No boats, not really much action save for the false killer whales which were going bonkers on the deep finbait. Fished the yoyo all over... never saw the school on the meter. Only deep stratified bait clouds. Saw the upper level cloud wall up hard 30' off the bottom, couple cranks and whammo! Massive head shakes and hard runs, but the new Saltist (which my GF got me for christmas) put the SMACK down and had him at gaff within about 3 minutes. After a sketchy swing-an-a-miss, he was on the clip and bleeding out. this is how you rope a donkey like a boss! Also had a grey whale swim right under my yak on the way in, and metered it on my sonar... so cool!

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[Cbad Mike]

Nice video!
Congratulations on the YT
And a second congratulations on having a girlfriend who knows how to pick out a great Christmas present.
:cheers1:

[bolocop]

Nice, it never gets old!

Was hoping to see the entire sonar shot of the whale...

[StinkyMatt]

That YT looked solid...

Great gaff sequence.

[fishja]

Dam love them yoyo fish! Great short video!


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[addicted2sp33d]

:cheers1:

[FISH11]

Really nice Yellowtail. Great video and whale screen shot.

[chris138]

Nice, it never gets old!

Was hoping to see the entire sonar shot of the whale...

Its there, its at the very end.

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[chris138]

That YT looked solid...

Great gaff sequence.

Ya so solid that the first gaff attempt just punted him up in the air! lol

[Cadillyak]

Solid feesh indeed. How much did she tip the scales at??
:jig:

[Pinhead]

Good job holding your rod, gaffing and coming up with a Verrrry Nice YT.

:yt:

[chris138]

Solid feesh indeed. How much did she tip the scales at??
:jig:

No scale, but i would guess 22ish. :cheers1:

[Cadillyak]

No scale, but i would guess 22ish. :cheers1:

Being modest I see. I would have guessed bigger, but I don't catch fish so my internal scale could be off.

[the dude]

That's probably one of the coolest kayak vids I've seen.
-big friggin fish -check
-cool music -check
-whale underwater vid and sonar scan -check

if there was a cat or a puppy in it you might win the internet...

ps. Looks 30# to me!

[bolocop]

My bad, I thought it was still going and got cut short. Nice video, great fish!

Its there, its at the very end.

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[Lipripper92592]

Nice one on the Iron!!! Thanks for posting the shot of the whale, they always seem to be just out of my beam when they are cruising around. Good to know what they look like!

[yak-fishing-socal]

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[CALIFORNIA_LOCO]

That's rad! nice work:notworthy:

[ashmoz]

Boss move!:cheers1:

[kayakfisherman]

Very Cool Video!!

The music was just perfect. Beautiful Fish.

[RK]

Gonna have to have Jerry weld a barb on your gaff.....:D

[CALIFORNIA_LOCO]

Got out last week on a slow day. No boats, not really much action save for the false killer whales which were going bonkers on the deep finbait. Fished the yoyo all over... never saw the school on the meter. Only deep stratified bait clouds. Saw the upper level cloud wall up hard 30' off the bottom, couple cranks and whammo! Massive head shakes and hard runs, but the new Saltist (which my GF got me for christmas) put the SMACK down and had him at gaff within about 3 minutes. After a sketchy swing-an-a-miss, he was on the clip and bleeding out. this is how you rope a donkey like a boss! Also had a grey whale swim right under my yak on the way in, and metered it on my sonar... so cool!

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Nice video! I'm new to the forum! How do you upload YouTube vids On here?

[chris138]

Its easy... When you're watching the video, down below the title and channel there button that says "share". Click share then a bunch of little facebook and twitter icons pop up, above that there's a button that says "embed". When you click on that, a little HTML code line will pop up. Copy and paste that into your post and done!

[chris138]

Gonna have to have Jerry weld a barb on your gaff.....:D

Seriously, the first shot didn't even puncture the skin. He just had a little scratch. My gaff is sharp too... I dunno. If anything scallywag would sabotage me and grind the tip off it.

That being said, a flying gaff is not a bad idea, for when I rope an 80lb BFT this season on a rapala. you heard it here first.

[CALIFORNIA_LOCO]

Right on thanks man

[Vikingj]

great video, awesome fish. Thanks for sharing.

[ceviche eater]

Cool video