5/21 midmorning - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

madscientist · 05-23-2007, 09:12 AM

The backwards trick is mainly used by sit inside guys and is not usually recommended for SOT yaks. It will work in small to medium surf but in anything big it would be a disaster waiting to happen. The back end of most fishing yaks pearls worse than the front. Backwards you have less control if the wave grabs you and you cannot even try to really accelerate to beat one in. Better to get the proper forward technique down. In big surf I find its all a matter of coming in with a head of steam and either handling the wave you are on or the one behind it. More than that and you are in trouble. Sitting backwards in the surf zone getting pounded is not ideal.

05-23-2007, 09:12 AM	#4
madscientist Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,906	The backwards trick is mainly used by sit inside guys and is not usually recommended for SOT yaks. It will work in small to medium surf but in anything big it would be a disaster waiting to happen. The back end of most fishing yaks pearls worse than the front. Backwards you have less control if the wave grabs you and you cannot even try to really accelerate to beat one in. Better to get the proper forward technique down. In big surf I find its all a matter of coming in with a head of steam and either handling the wave you are on or the one behind it. More than that and you are in trouble. Sitting backwards in the surf zone getting pounded is not ideal. __________________