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  1. KayakFisherman

    Kayak Fishing and Sharks

    Okay I suspect that for most kayak fisherman encounters with sharks don't happen very often but I'm guessing for the kayak fishermen who pursue bass along the CT and MA coastlines sharke become an issue, and after several encounters with large toothy critters at the point last year, I found...
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    Misfit Kayak Fishing Team Finds the Bass in Montauk

    Team member "Pistol" Pete Kelly made a 3-hour drive to the end of Long Island for some of the fish Mtk is famous for. I hadn't been catching much and wanted to get some numbers up for the Striper Cup Hobie World Qualifier. More importantly, I wanted to get Pete into some respectable fish. Armed...
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    Montauk Heat is Cooling the Bass Bite

    Last 3 trips out I had no bass. Fished around False and North bars through the top of the tide and caught a lot of big bluefish. If I stayed until sunrise, I'd pick up a ton of sea bass once the sun was up. So I switched things up last night and fished the bottom of the tide. This enabled me to...
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    TBO Trifecta

    Nice work!
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    ...And the Agony of Defeat

    Remember the guy spinning out of control and flying off the ski jump at the beginning of Wide World of Sports? That was me. Not so much out of control as out of luck. I had noticed a slight uptick in the bait and the bite out at The Point. So even though the last three trips had produced only...
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    Montauk Kayak Bass - Hit or Miss

    Wrong fish in pic.
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    Montauk Kayak Bass - Hit or Miss

    Got out for some trolling at the Point. Been having luck with a deep-swimming silver-and-white lure, about 6 inches long, with a plastic lip that keeps it down about 12 feet. Found big fish in deeper water, tried a deeper (20 foot) swimming lure, but did better with the 12-foot-deep lure...
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    Sit in or on?

    I built an electric bilge pump into both my sit-in and my sit-on-top because I've come very close to sinking in both. Usually, it's because a drain plug came loose or was never replaced after draining, but I've had a crack in the hull take in water and I've read in books that a lot of guys lose...
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    Sit in or on?

    Two thoughts on that. The first relates to sit-in vs. sit-on-top, the original topic. I have one of each and I outfitted them both for fishing. I've outfitted in 8 foot sit in Perception Kayak that I used for the first seven or eight years that I kayak fished. The lower center of gravity makes...
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    Rod length opinion wanted

    I'm not the only one with this idea, apparently. https://www.fishermansworld.net/stcrmoyakspc.html
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    "The thought of a true cow off the yak platform is what justifies risking life and limb to get to those spots boats can't reach." Amen.
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    Bridge Bass and Blues

    I headed out last night later than I had hoped (overslept), but decided that it was a good idea anyway. Normally at the bridge I fished the incoming which means that the water is Flowing from east to west under the bridge. I'll work the west side so the current pulls me away from the pilings and...
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    One more thing. Also not good to anchor off the rear of your yak. If there is no current at all then fine but if there is any surf, you want to be taking those waves over the front of your kayak not the back of it. You also can't really see the bigger waves coming.
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    Initially, I was fishing from an 8-foot sit-in kayak. I installed a cleat, but quickly realized that being able to release the anchor line quickly was much more important that being able to secure it. I found that by sitting in the kayak and holding the anchor line while in a mild current, I...
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    This is the one I use. Expensive.
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    There's also a ton of structure under Ponquogue that can make anchoring difficult. Two of my anchors are down there.
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    I use a quick release clip that will hold the line but still allow me to yank the line out of it instantly if I need to. I would often release from my anchoring point to go chase down a fish. I would leave a lighted float on my anchor line so that I could go back to the spot again after I landed it.
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    Very good point. I haven't been a fan of the 180 simply because it's so new. Hobie has a way of "improving" their new stuff shortly after it's been released without ever admitting that there was something that needed to be fixed. That's business. I also didn't think I'd use it much, but now that...
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    What Distinguishes "Kayak Fishing"

    This topic has always been on my mind, but recently it came into focus in the context of determining what types of information are important to include in a kayak fishing report and how much is not necessary. That discussion revealed another aspect of kayak fishing that separates it from other...

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