Livebaiting For Bass – Is Easy Once You Know How.
As with most fishing techniques, livebaiting for bass sounds complicated to the average angler, but truth be known its no more difficult than trolling a plug behind your kayak, or casting your plugs whilst on the drift. Whats more livebaits are said to be a great [...]
Yak Fishing – Starting Out
Sometime around December I, like many other sea anglers, purchase a tide book for the forthcoming year. My initial task on sifting through the months is to highlight the big spring tides with a day glow marker pen; anything above 5.5m on Scarborough tables. These tides give rock anglers a chance to reach outlying [...]
Forum member Dave Adamson describes his fool proof method for anchoring his kayak in strong tides. This method also allows for easy retrieval of your kayak anchor whilst the tide is still running strong.
There are still a lot of the lads who are either unsure how to anchor or nervous of trying. Since changing kayaks [...]
This article was written by Simon Everett (Edited by Glenn Kilpatrick). The article focusses on tope fishing from a kayak, however the methods discussed can also be utilised by boat anglers. Pictures appear courtesy of Ken Oliver.
Tackle For Tope Fishing
Rigs – A running ledger style rig will work just fine. A 6/0 or 8/0 mustad [...]
Kayak Cod Rigs – By Iain Sellors
With the summer fishing on the horizon I am getting some kayak rigs made up and thought I would show you what I use for inshore cod fishing on the land rock.
The components are :
One 4/0 and One 8/0 Oshaugnessy hook
Two 1/0 interlock snaps
Two elastic bands
Eight 3″ of white [...]
Uptide fishing from a kayak is really no different to the general uptiding methods employed in boat fishing. These methods were developed by South East boat angler Bob Cox who discovered that casting a bait uptide from an anchored vessel gave better results than bait fishing whilst drifting. To uptide from [...]
This article was written by forum member Iain Sellors and focuses on kayak fishing for bass using plugs and lures.
What time of year to target bass from a kayak ?
I usually start during the first weeks of June, weather permitting, if we are very lucky and get a settled spring it may be [...]
Basic Requirements To Go Fishing From A Kayak
With all the upsurge of interest in using kayaks for fishing inshore waters many anglers are keen to know the ins and outs of what is required to take up this exiting sport. There is a lot of information contained on the web, much [...]
CONGER FISHING WITH OCEAN KAYAK
A flotilla of colourful kayaks lined the shore at Mudeford Spit, Dorset on September 1st for the latest kayak fishing demonstration day supported by Johnson Outdoors UK. Following the day there was also going to be some serious kayak fishing because Richi Oliver of Extreme Kayak Fishing had organised a week [...]
Scott Null Joel McBride
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