It was a sad day: Newport - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

vincentek9 · 06-25-2013, 06:53 PM

yikes that sucks to hear. you must have turned and leaned a bit exactly when the wake hit you. scramblers are very sturdy for ocean fishing. maybe the next time i head out i could try to drag a few trebles with some heavy lead to see if i could snag your gear. my 60# trolling setups dont get much action until august anyways.

YakAttak · 06-25-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by vincentek9

yikes that sucks to hear. you must have turned and leaned a bit exactly when the wake hit you. scramblers are very sturdy for ocean fishing. maybe the next time i head out i could try to drag a few trebles with some heavy lead to see if i could snag your gear. my 60# trolling setups dont get much action until august anyways.

Thanks ahead bro.

Hopefully the rods would still be usable. The reels would probably be messed up being in the sea that long though

StickyFish · 06-25-2013, 07:51 PM

I remember my first flip on my Hobie Outback. It was my 3rd or 4th time out in the SD Bay and I got cocky. It was a calm/hot day and I decided to remove my life vest as there was obviously no danger... A few casts later I hooked into a decent spotty. I got her to the side of the yak and tried to reach back behind me to lip her and next thing all I see is green. Luckily I held onto my rod through this and was able to grab my yak and kick to an anchored sail boat. I ended up using their rope ladder as leverage to flip my yak back over. Through this whole process that spotty was still on my line. Fortunately I leashed all my rods, unfortunately my backpack and tackle worked it's way out of the buggy cords and I lost all of it. Lessoned learned, never remove that life vest. If that sail boat wasn't so close I could have been in a real bad situation. The other lesson I learned was to minimize what I bring. I lost a ton of tackle that I was never planning to use in the bay but since it was all in one box it was all lost. The second you take the ocean for granted is the second she kicks you in the ass. I hope you're able to get back out there soon, it truly is a live and learn based hobby.

YakAttak · 06-26-2013, 11:05 PM

Yup. That's exactly what I got. I've got some experience kayaking in the past without any problem so I thought I would handle it this time just fine. Only difference this time is I got gears, and a bucket of water sitting high behind me

and it didn't take much to get flipped

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06-25-2013, 06:53 PM	#1
vincentek9 MAYNEE-YAK Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: So Cal Posts: 533	yikes that sucks to hear. you must have turned and leaned a bit exactly when the wake hit you. scramblers are very sturdy for ocean fishing. maybe the next time i head out i could try to drag a few trebles with some heavy lead to see if i could snag your gear. my 60# trolling setups dont get much action until august anyways. __________________

06-25-2013, 07:51 PM	#3
StickyFish Junior Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 1	I remember my first flip on my Hobie Outback. It was my 3rd or 4th time out in the SD Bay and I got cocky. It was a calm/hot day and I decided to remove my life vest as there was obviously no danger... A few casts later I hooked into a decent spotty. I got her to the side of the yak and tried to reach back behind me to lip her and next thing all I see is green. Luckily I held onto my rod through this and was able to grab my yak and kick to an anchored sail boat. I ended up using their rope ladder as leverage to flip my yak back over. Through this whole process that spotty was still on my line. Fortunately I leashed all my rods, unfortunately my backpack and tackle worked it's way out of the buggy cords and I lost all of it. Lessoned learned, never remove that life vest. If that sail boat wasn't so close I could have been in a real bad situation. The other lesson I learned was to minimize what I bring. I lost a ton of tackle that I was never planning to use in the bay but since it was all in one box it was all lost. The second you take the ocean for granted is the second she kicks you in the ass. I hope you're able to get back out there soon, it truly is a live and learn based hobby.

06-26-2013, 11:05 PM	#4
YakAttak Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 82	Yup. That's exactly what I got. I've got some experience kayaking in the past without any problem so I thought I would handle it this time just fine. Only difference this time is I got gears, and a bucket of water sitting high behind me and it didn't take much to get flipped .