Kayak fishing Joppa Flatts last Night and

[Tagger]

Just like driving a small compact car on the road .. You get no respect .. Drive a big rusty beater and everyone makes way . Bob ,, You said last night .. as in dark .. Do you have running lights ? I'm just getting into yakking ,, Think I'll need them . got a link ?

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by Tagger

Just like driving a small compact car on the road .. You get no respect .. Drive a big rusty beater and everyone makes way . Bob ,, You said last night .. as in dark .. Do you have running lights ? I'm just getting into yakking ,, Think I'll need them . got a link ?

Get a BRIGHT stern light. TTB's head light is JUNK and not safe. (No offense). I've Kayak'd w/guys that use only a head light. You CANNOT SEE them unless they are looking at you. Chances are the boat never saw you. Spend the freakin $10 on a light.

[Rockfish9]

Bob, sorry you had an issue.. it happens... but this NEEDS to be said...a good amount of .Kayakers have NO respect for boats, they go where they please, when they please with out bothering to calculate where the boats around them are headed, eventualy as watermen, we get sick and tired of the ignorance....I was fishing there long before there were any kayaks launched, they tend to forget they are the new kids on the block, not that it matters, they are here to stay, and that is fine by me, some , not all 'yakers simply dont get it.. you guys are VERY hard to see on the water at night, and damn near impossible if there is a chop, even in a medium sized center console, lights or no lights, fisherman( and I'm not one of them) that dont know the shore/light configurations can eaisily mis judge a kayak for a land light, and thus mis judge the distance and a confrontation is ineveitable... there is plenty of water for every one, boaters need to be more aware ( hard to do after a 12 pack) of their surrounding and need to be sensitve to smaller crafts... they have every right to be there as well.
Kayakers need to be more aware of their surropundings as well... trolling in front of or directly behind a boat is no way to make friends.... a boat that is trolling ( under electric power) with the wind or tide is not as manuverable as a kayak.. rules of the road state that the more manuverable craft MUST give way...in boating size DOES matter.... when a boat is hooked up, being tag teamed by several kaykers while you fight your fish is not exactly good sportmanship either.. and it's happend more times than I care to reveal... it's time for every one to take a step back and think about the other side.... if everyone cannot learn to be respectfull to one another, eventualy the Coast Gaurd will become involved.. and that may not end well for many.

any way.. drop the tube.. troll the eel and all will be right with the world...BTW... I dont go near the place until after midnight on week ends... just too many loonies of all kinds.

Sorry for the rant, but this has been festering for awhile, those crying fowel( not nessesarily you Bob) are not exactly exempt from blame...

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

Bob, sorry you had an issue.. it happens... but this NEEDS to be said...a good amount of .Kayakers have NO respect for boats, they go where they please, when they please with out bothering to calculate where the boats around them are headed, eventualy as watermen, we get sick and tired of the ignorance....I was fishing there long before there were any kayaks launched, they tend to forget they are the new kids on the block, not that it matters, they are here to stay, and that is fine by me, some , not all 'yakers simply dont get it.. you guys are VERY hard to see on the water at night, and damn near impossible if there is a chop, even in a medium sized center console, lights or no lights, fisherman( and I'm not one of them) that dont know the shore/light configurations can eaisily mis judge a kayak for a land light, and thus mis judge the distance and a confrontation is ineveitable... there is plenty of water for every one, boaters need to be more aware ( hard to do after a 12 pack) of their surrounding and need to be sensitve to smaller crafts... they have every right to be there as well.
Kayakers need to be more aware of their surropundings as well... trolling in front of or directly behind a boat is no way to make friends.... a boat that is trolling ( under electric power) with the wind or tide is not as manuverable as a kayak.. rules of the road state that the more manuverable craft MUST give way...in boating size DOES matter.... when a boat is hooked up, being tag teamed by several kaykers while you fight your fish is not exactly good sportmanship either.. and it's happend more times than I care to reveal... it's time for every one to take a step back and think about the other side.... if everyone cannot learn to be respectfull to one another, eventualy the Coast Gaurd will become involved.. and that may not end well for many.

any way.. drop the tube.. troll the eel and all will be right with the world...BTW... I dont go near the place until after midnight on week ends... just too many loonies of all kinds.

Sorry for the rant, but this has been festering for awhile, those crying fowel( not nessesarily you Bob) are not exactly exempt from blame...

Well put Joe. Coming from a Kayaker.

Going out with just a headlight at night is ridiculous ESPECIALLY in a high traffic area.

Yakkers that don't have a BRIGHT stern light would BITCH to high heaven if they were driving home at night and a bicyclist was riding in the road with little to no lighting... It's the same thing.

[Fly Rod]

I am very surprised that there are not more collisons and serious injury between Kayaks and motor boats.

At night a kayak is suppose to have a white light in their possession and turn it on when another craft is approching

During the day there should be mandatory that they should have a 3-4 foot pole with a 2'x2' bright orange flag.

Other then that, Have a great day on the water.