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09-23-2020, 03:29 PM | #1 |
Junior
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Poway
Posts: 24
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Will do. Thanks again. Learned many things that day!!
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09-23-2020, 04:41 PM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Posts: 427
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Nice job!! I'm the guy with the other Passport that was chatting with you while looking for bait the other weekend. Looks like you got the redemption you were looking for! That's a hell of a story though! Takes some grit to hang on to a rod with a fish like that after capsizing a yak. Then to be able to land it after all that? That's crazy haha
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09-24-2020, 06:48 AM | #3 |
Junior
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Poway
Posts: 24
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Hi Salty, you were also the guy on the beach that told me you had a thought that I would get a YT that day. You didn't tell me about the big adventure I would have getting it. It took about 3 hrs of riding a greenback around. Hooked up after 2 hyper screaming runs. I was on the outside of the ridge in 100 ft.
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09-24-2020, 07:20 AM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posts: 1,874
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Congratulations on your first ! As others have mentioned: get a vhf, wear a PFD, and always keep the rod pointed towards the bow when hooked up for stability. Regardless of where the fish is swimming, if you keep your rod pointed off the bow of the kayak, eventually the fish will pull the kayak so that it is off the bow. Anglers have used 100lb braid with 50lbs of drag to successfully pull fish out of wrecks off kayaks, provided they Always keep the rod pointed on the bow the entire battle. Anywhere else will flip them in half a heartbeat.
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09-24-2020, 08:14 AM | #5 |
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 48
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Some good suggestions here. Also spread your legs over the side sstraddling the yak, it is a great stabilizer. You can also slouch down to lower the center of gravity.
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09-24-2020, 03:31 PM | #6 |
Junior
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Poway
Posts: 24
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Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions. Wishing you all tight lines.
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09-24-2020, 03:37 PM | #7 |
Junior
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Poway
Posts: 24
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Found out Salty is not who i talked to on the beach that morning. If that guy with exact same Passport yak as mine sees this, thanks for the good karma and send me a message.
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09-24-2020, 04:49 PM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Posts: 427
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