A Few Tips For Using Fishing Kayaks To Catch The Big One!

So you plan to use fishing kayaks to land your next big trophy? Here are a few kayak fishing tips that can hopefully help you on your next fishing trip. An anchor trolley helps position your boat, so that you can apply more pressure when setting the hook. If you have the boat facing sideways to the fish, all of your energy is exerted sideways, into the water. This doesn’t provide you and leverage.

If the boat is lined up properly with the fish, when you go to she the hook, your energy goes down the length of the kayak, and you can use your legs to help apply extra pressure. Once you start putting this tip into practice, you will greatly increase your fish fighting power. Remember, that this isn’t a big boat, and you can’t rip the lips off of the fish on your hookset, so proper kayak positioning is essential.

Since you can’t set the hook with the same power you have on big rig boats, I highly suggest using super sharp hooks. As a general rule, if the hook doesn’t stick to your skin, it isn’t as sharp as it could be. This doesn’t mean throwing a hook away as soon as it won’t stick to your skin.

This does mean though, that if you can apply pressure, and it won’t pierce your skin, it won’t pierce a fishes strong mouth either. Sharp hooks also leave a smaller entry point. This heals quicker on fish, but also allows the barb on the hook to do its job. When you open up a wide hole in the fishes mouth, it takes him longer to recover, and he has a higher change of throwing the hook because there is nothing to grab onto.

The final in this small list of kayak fishing tips that we can provide for you, is that you should always protect your skin. You have seen the typical kayak fishing getup, the khaki pants, long sleeve shirts, and fishing hats. People wear this type of clothing because it keeps you from getting skin cancer, and surprisingly keeps you cool as well. You will get hot, and sweaty, but the sweat will keep you much cooler, than being dehydrated out on the water!

Applying each of these tips together will help you have a better day out on the water. Normal stresses like the sun, water, bugs, etc will go away. You may look a little funny, but when all is said and done, what is the deciding factor? Your looks? Or being healthy, and comfortable?