Jcanracer wrote:
This angler made one big mistake over anything else: His drag was set too heavy.
Do yourself a favor when you're fighting larger fish offshore: keep a level head make sure your drag isn't so tight that the fish can either rip the rod from your hands or rip you from your seat, and for goodness sake keep your feet inside the kayak.
Years ago I started fly fishing with the Spey rods.
You go from fly fishing for small to medium size fish to big critters. Big critters that can pull an expensive rod and reel/line out of your hands.
My son warned me to never have a heavy tippet on the end of the line. Since we basically catch and release, to never go over a 12 pound tippet.
One of my peers/mentors is big guy who played highschool and college football skoffed at at this. He went fishing with a guide for big steelhead in a Canadian river. He had a new expensive Spey Rod/reel/line and on his first big cast a really big salmon/steelhead/? struk his fly, hooked itself and headed down stream at flank speed. The critter pulled the rod out of his hand into the river. He and the guide never found. His clone of a brother had the same fate happen in Alaska.
Later, I broke the my 12# tippet with a large salmon in the Checto River in Oregon. Another fisher with me estimated that salmon was between 40-50 #'s.
Login
Register
FAQ
