Nine kayak fishing mistakes i made and you should avoid starting now i’ve been in a kayak fishing sport for a while now and the reality is i made some dumb mistakes the good news is you can learn from them and probably save some cash in the process i’m gonna skip over the begging you for the legs and sub and bell and hop right in and get this party started here’s the thing stick around.
To the end because the last three are specific to fishing out of your kayak mistake number nine here we go your skin is not the only thing that could be compromised by the sun the reality is those uv rays will destroy just about anything over time you can just ask my hot tub cover fortunately that also means your kayak you see kayaks are made most of them from polyethylene fun fact polyethylene is the most widely used plastic in the world and two things happen to polyethylene when exposed to uv rays one is that the colors fade big bummer two is that the plastic actually becomes brittle this is kind of a big deal for those who carry a lot of heavy loads on their kayak i know mine fully loaded.
Is around 100 pounds and so that crack that you got or maybe you saw on a social media feed with somebody else may have less to do with the manufacturer and how they built the kayak and more about how it was stored there’s two things you can do here one is the obvious one do not store it in the sun as you can see here i have mine up on a pulley hoist if you’re interested how to do that i made a video about it i’ll throw it up in the cards just because it’s not outside doesn’t mean those rays are not coming through the glass and fading the color of your awesome kayak as you can see here i’m still making that mistake because i don’t have any cardboard over here so it wouldn’t surprise me that when i take this down this little section here would be faded by the sun looks like.
I need to learn from that mistake second thing you can do is actually use a protectant i highly recommend the aerospace 303 this stuff right here the reality is it’s kind of expensive but it’s worth it some of the best out there on the market so i’ll throw a link in the description below moving on number eight whether you purchased a kayak or not this mistake is probably one you never thought of the color of your kayak when you’re looking for a kayak you’re looking at the color and be like how awesome does it look the question you’re not probably asking yourself.
And maybe it should is how will i be visible in the water to other watercraft if you’re concerned with safety especially if you fish those heavily traffic waterways then this might be something you want to consider but if you fish places with not a lot of both traffic but you’re moderately concerned with boat safety that i have another option for you so when you’re on the water your best colors to be seen are obviously your high vis colors is green your hive is yellow your hive is orange like this guy right here kind of difficult not to see him your moderate colors are going to be your reds your blues your greens and some of your worst colors are gonna be your white kayaks might not be thinking about this but on a sunny day out in the water you’re just gonna look like a glare also one of the worst colors is camouflage because you blend in right with.
The horizon you have to be a complete idiot if you were to purchase a camouflage kayak now keep in mind when we’re on the water we assume that boaters see this but the reality is a lot of times boaters might only see this profile of your kayak so it may be a really good idea to pay attention to the color of your kayak and if you don’t have one if you have a camouflage like this idiot here well it might be a good idea to get a flag for your yak then yak attack makes a fantastic kayak flag so check it out and if you fish tonight it lights up so i’ll throw that link below mistake number seven all right this one’s gonna be quick i purchased my native slayer propel 10 off facebook marketplace drove two hours to pittsburgh to pick it up and.
I didn’t have a trailer at the time so i took every single strap i owned threw it to the top of my car and drove home and it was the loudest ride of my life as all of these straps vibrated in the wind well what i didn’t realize was happening at the time as i was flying down the road at 70 miles per hour as that strap was vibrating and whenever that strap started touching my kayak that’s what was making a lot of the vibrations and when i came home i found that all that friction actually melted part of my kayak was the big bummer because i just purchased it so if you’re gonna take a long trip make sure you put a piece of cardboard in between the strap and.
Your boat so you don’t melt your kayak moving on a mistake number six this is a mistake i made i just purchased my fishing kayak and just hop out in the water and started fishing i had no clue i didn’t know my limitations i didn’t know my abilities and i definitely didn’t know my safety measure i’m not gonna go into a ton of detail here but at a high level you should at least know how to do these things you know how to do a deep water re-entry in case you fall out of your kayak it’s not as simple as you may think should know how to identify wind speed and know kind of what’s your line i just did a video on this how to identify wednesday by deducing how the wind affects the things around you throw those up in the car you let someone know where.
You’re going to be when you’re out kayak fishing to be prepared for the weather actually should be prepared for immersion should at least somewhere on your yak have a whistle or some type of small horn make sure you have a toe line i always also keep a knife on my body you of course should have a personal floatation device watch your hydration and much more i share these things that the leading cause of death and kayaking is drowning and drowning a lot of times the result of not knowing your abilities your limitations and your safety measures these are actually a bullet point list of a video i’m putting together so if you’re not sub to this channel hit that sub and.
Bell and you will be notified when it comes live moving on to mistake number five fishing kayaks are expensive and since you’re dropping a bunch of cash you should be able to try this thing out before you buy it just like you would with a car so here’s some things to consider some stores won’t let you try before you buy but here’s the thing you don’t have to buy for them you’re the one that has the cash you’re the one that has leverage go somewhere else obviously you could buy use like i said earlier i bought mine.
Off a Facebook marketplace all you have to do is let the seller know they would you meet me at the local pond so i can test this thing out just make sure that you’ve done your research and you’re ready to buy some specialty kayak stores actually build ponds on their property so you can try these out they’re not everywhere but do your research you might have one near you here’s another option if you absolutely have a kayak that you love and it’s only sold at this store and you can’t find it anywhere else you might want to dig into the return policy it might be very generous just make sure you dial in whether or not it’s an in-store credit or a full refund and last thing if you’re not in a hurry a lot of these stores sell kayaks have demo days a few times a year so head over the website.
And see when those are alright if you’re still with me hit that like button let me know you’re tracking moving on to mistake number four get a kill guard before it’s too late and the damage is already done here’s the thing i did that with my native slayer i was so excited when i bought it i just hopped out in the water and i kind of destroyed the front hall of it here here’s the here’s a video of it um so i actually did a day kidded keel guard for that it’s working out great like most things that you think a bunch of money into you want to keep them nice and i know that my kayak fully loaded like i said is a hundred pounds and when you ram that into a rock it’s going to do some damage.
To the polyethylene hull and since most kayaks purchased from the store don’t come with a cue guard it might be a good idea for you to get one three options for you here number one obviously you can purchase these online they’re kind of expensive though but if you do a quick google search you can find option number two if you really want to invest into your kayak i highly recommend doing a day keel guard using kidded i actually did a video on how to install this and how all the things that you need to purchase it so I’ll throw that up in the cards you can do it for yourself i put mine on the middle last season it’s been holding up ever since so highly recommend that and the third option i have is kind of exploratory i found this kayak it’s Aruba 10.
In a river about a year and a half ago and i i turned into the police and they said if no one comes for it it’s yours well that was a year and a half ago so it’s mine I’m starting to mod it out a bit and i don’t want to spend a lot of time putting a day kidded kilogram into I’m testing out how this would actually work it’s gorilla tread tape I’m going to put a video together here in the future and I’ll let y’all know how this holds up you can see here it’s really rough and since I’m not in that kayak a whole lot it’s more force someone wants to come fishing with me i don’t want to invest a lot of money and this thing was like 10 bucks all right we’re down to the last three and like.
I promised these have to do with mistakes i made fishing from my kayak well all right let’s start with number three all right this one has to do with keeping a low profile before i was a kayak fisherman i was a bank fisherman so i didn’t worry a whole lot about sound well now that you’re in a kayak there’s all kinds of noises coming from your kayak that could spook those bass so keeping a low profile is key also keep in mind where those eyes are on the largemouth bass on the top of their head so they’re very aware what’s going on on top of the water i fish here in northeast Ohio a lot if there’s one lake that i fish and there’s a bald eagle-ness and often i see that bald eagle come down snatch a bass and take off so it’s going to benefit you to keep a low profile and this is what.
I mean if you have an electric motor on your kayak you might want to turn that off and pedal into your spot so you don’t spook the fish if you have a pedal powered kayak you’re going to slow this down so you’re not making a lot of noise as you enter into where you want to fish and i would imagine most you paddle your kayak at some point so keep in mind the splash that you’re making with your kayak paddle and also anytime you bang that against your boat it’s not helping your fishing game man mistake number two is keep your distance and i’m not talking about from other kayak fishermen talking about keep your distance away from those bass guys and gals it’s going to.
Be much easier for you to catch that bastard track in if they don’t know you’re there there’s a tendency to try to get as close as you possibly can to that bass but actually that works against you don’t have to shake hands with that thing you just got to be able to make out the outline of the fish and the further away that you are the higher the chances are you’re going to get a bite quality optics will help you here but also keep in mind how you have your kayak position if possible do your best to position your kayak and your back to the sun and mistake number one i made this mistake.
All the time a lot of you guys are deadly with where you can put that lure i mean you can put it just about anywhere you want and this comes into play a lot when it comes to bed fishing you see a fish and you just kind of land that lure right on its head and.
What happens actually those fish scatter i used to make that mistake all the time until i learned to overcast my lure instead of landing it and dropping a bomb right in the middle of the bed or right where that fish was overcast your lure a few feet and then dance that right back through where that fish is sitting to get that reaction bite if you like these tips you’re going to love this video 11 things i wish i knew before i started kayak fishing right there.
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