Totally Lost it. - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

madscientist · 06-28-2007, 09:58 PM

Hmmmm, lot's of strange advice on this thread. For what it's worth, here's how I time it. Walk out with the yak into just shy of waist deep water (waders help when it's chilly) and pay attention to the surge height. If it's alternating between knee high and waist high, don't go when it's knee high. Wait till you get a good 2 or 3 in a row that have you thinking you are out too deep, check to make sure there's nothing scary forming up, and jump on. Trying to judge sets sitting down in 1ft of water is almost impossible, and you have much more of the surf zone to paddle through if you get on in too shallow of water.

06-28-2007, 09:58 PM	#13
madscientist Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,906	Hmmmm, lot's of strange advice on this thread. For what it's worth, here's how I time it. Walk out with the yak into just shy of waist deep water (waders help when it's chilly) and pay attention to the surge height. If it's alternating between knee high and waist high, don't go when it's knee high. Wait till you get a good 2 or 3 in a row that have you thinking you are out too deep, check to make sure there's nothing scary forming up, and jump on. Trying to judge sets sitting down in 1ft of water is almost impossible, and you have much more of the surf zone to paddle through if you get on in too shallow of water. __________________