Fishing Tackle: How to Fish in the Kayak?

Nowadays, more and more people want to have a try of kayak fishing, because it has no limitation of the spot, you don’t have to stand on the shore and waiting for the fish to have a bite. In other words, you can find the fish actively and catch them. At the same time, kayak fishing provides you a good chance to be close to the nature: drive your boat on the sea, lake or the river, you will find some beautiful scenery you’ve never seen.

But actually speaking, kayak fishing is different from other fishing forms, if you know nothing about how to fish in the kayak, what you can do on the kayak is just see the beautiful scenery. Today, we will tell you some tips about the kayak fishing.

1. Learn to customize your kayak

Before fishing, you should learn how to choose the kayak and how to drive it. The key to successful and enjoyable kayak angling is to ensure that your kayak is outfitted with the right equipment to achieve a good balance between comfort and functionality. At the same time, remember to keep fishing tackles, pliers, a landing net, water and other important items within easy reach.

2. Learn to choose the right fishing tackles

Buy the braid lines: Thin, strong, non-stretch braid fishing lines are ideal for kayak fishing. Not only do they allow the angler cast further and put more action into his lures, they allow the use of lighter fishing sinkers when baitfishing.

At the same time, give yourself a rod’s length of line. Winding in too much line only gives you more to do when you hook a fish or have to remove weeds from your line. Giving yourself a rod’s length of line means that you can grab your lure or fish, and work with a slack line.

Choose the fishing lures: Use versatile, easy-to-fish lures. This reduces retying and re-rigging, which means you make more casts in the day and catch more fish because of it. Different subspecies prefer different fishing lures, but more importantly, different situations call for the use of different lures. No matter what kind of fish you want to catch, the most important thing to keep in mind when selecting a lure is why the fish will bite an artificial lure.

3. Other tips

Your body follows where your head goes: try to keep upright at all times with your head centered over the kayak. Once you must this trick, you will stay comfortably on to of your kayak no matter how much it rolls. I’ve seen people fall in the water simply because they leaned out of the kayak to look around.

Change tactics to target different species before leaving an area. Kitchen carries three to five rod and reel combos for fast change-ups between species.

For comfort, invest in a light paddle. Tether it to the kayak using a leash.

Please always remember to wear your life vest.

Once you have a try, I believe you will fall in love with this attractive activity. As long as you practice it again and again, you will find more tips by yourself, and you will have a sense of achievement at that time.