Launched from Pleasure Beach 5/20/04
 

I took the kayak out for a fishing trip with four others. Fished the bottom 1hr of the outgoing and first 3 of the incoming tide. 20+ stripers and a couple of bluefish between all of us. The largest was a 28lb striper (weighed on the boga b4 release).
Nils

sweet!

HOLYSPIT!!!!!!!! nice fish!!!!!! how was the RIDE it gave!??

Great shot. What type of kayak is yours?

The Nantucket sleigh ride was good.

This one is a Wilderness Tarpon 160, I have a T140 and a T120 for other conditions of fishing:D

It's fun to fight fish in the kayak. I got my kayaks from King Cove...

Nice fish!

Also, nice scribble on the shorline, but I can tell where you are from the little hill underneath your bent rod.

NICE FISH!!!

I really like that picture:D

Nice NC.
I want to try the Kayak thing, I got just the spot.
Can you fit a livewell in it?:laughs:

very cool Nils....nice fish:D

It can be done easily;)

HE HE, that is a fake hill....
I know I I said where we launched from, but I didn't wanna give the coordinates away... I'll do that tonight!:D

MrsS, thanks. :D

Live well can be done in several ways, the most common is a cooler with a 500gph sump pump and a valve to lower the waterpressure. add a sprayerhead and you are good to go.

so the real question is....you ever have a shark try to eat your fish while you are realing in or think your kayak was a seal heh.

PS I want a kayak!

Look at the 115lb tresher in the picture, record are over 300lb now. So to answer the question, if they go for your fish, then the fight start all over :D with a bigger fish on the other end. (live mac's are preffered bait for shark fishing)

Nils

ahh that had to be intense. What if it was a mako or blue?

Threshers are meaner than blues..... makos.... :eek:

Here is a link to a nice story http://www.fska.org/tooth.htm

ooooh didn't know that. I have watched the Discovery Chanel and National Geographic to many times!

yikes!! lol

That's unreal.......I'd crap my pants if that happened to me...Good Job!!!

articles
 

http://www.baskers.org/ARTICLES/2jaws.html
http://www.baskers.org/ARTICLES/1shark.html

After the tournament I think I'm going to change my sig file to "Become part of the food-chain... kayak fish" :D :rolleyes:

Just kidding. I have not had the honour of landing a shark yet, but I'd like to. I would use one of the 600lb capacity kayaks for that fishing trip, the kayak I use now are rated for 375lb. :cool:

Good eating!

Gotta be certifiably insane to want to do that or even be in such an exclusive club of shark-attacked kayakers, NilsC :)

brass ones
 

I think landing a shark on a kayak is insane. But I would like to try it.

It's a different scale, but I keep a shark hook/leader on my 13ft whaler... we've caught em close to newport when bluefishing, so you never know...

Last Night on Outdoor Chanel
 

On Mark Sosig salt water chronicles low and behold he was fishin the ever glades on light spinning tackle for SHARK. I thought it was pretty funny that I was looking up sharks all day and then that show was on catchin em. He was catching them in very shallow water on like 15 pound test wire. :)

All kidding and bragging aside... :rolleyes:

I'm hooked on kayak fishing. I can get to places I only dreamed of when shore fishing. That includes stretches of shore that I paddle out to, park the kayak and walk the beach fishing. Small islands, flats 50 to 100yd offshore.

drifting out breachways to fish the ouside. A nice example are fishing on "Suicide rock" when the tide is rising, then get back in the kayak and continue fishing long after I had to get of the rock...

Drift across worm hatches watching the fish eat in 1' of water, sit in the middle of a blue fish blitz when you hear a thump and looking around you see a blue that knocked itself out on the side of the kayak while chasing bait. :D

Feel the power of a large blue or mama striper when she takes you for a "Nantucket sleigh ride" ;)

Nils

right when you think white sharks arent around...
 

http://reelbuzz.com/fishreports/poacher/

Here is a movie of a great white in NC that is holding a sign "BOSTON OR BUST" This is recent uhoh!

http://quicksilversurfer.home.comcas..._white_f-3.wmv

Adamfishes, those are big.... I'm not sure I'd liike to hook up with one of them....

It would turn the kayak into a little blue plastic bobber.

Nils

Ha! All you need is a oxygen tank to throw in his mouth and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Fish chowda.

On a side note I'm getin a used dagger backwater yak today and will be having my first yak fishing trip in duxbury this after noon! Hope that tiny little thing doesn't come and eat my fish!

Let me know if you are coming down my way we'll hook up fishing from yaks:D

Have fun tonight.

Nils

fishing in the sound
 

Very impressive pic of the 115 lb tresher. Hi, I just signed on as a member and I live in Stfd., I have a kayak and love to fish. Salt water is new to me though. Saw your Pleasure Beach pic also, are you local to Bpt/Stfd? Can I pick your brain sometime about fishing on the sound? I've fished at the Cape a bit on the kayak and out at Marnick's in Lordship, the rest has been fresh water.

I'm fishing the CT / RI waters most of the time. You are welcome to come anytime, or let us know when you are going out in your area and we can all meet and find new places to fish.

Call the store and hook up with us for some fishing.
I'm local to East Windsor, CT and In the summer I'm Local to Stonington / Misquamicut.

Nils