How hardcore a Kayak Fisherman are you??

[Fancypants2001]

We got a pair of Old Towne 106 September 2022. We had been kicking it around for many years, but we just don't have the space to store them. After a couple years camping and having to rent canoes on the road it became too hard to justify continuing to pay to rent. Has anyone realized how few hours renting can be pivoted into the purchase of a Kayak? Don't get me wrong - There is a huge price swing between entry level and pro-yaks. All shapes, lengths, colors and standard equipment. Walmart purchase or at a Sports specific store.

We have a 60 mile running river that terminates into a bigger river that then terminates into the Mississippi. This one is shallow and probably not deeper than 8 - 10ft max in some places. You can catch Perch, bass, northern-pike and channel cat among the apparent 60 some types of species. We just got into fishing as adults last fall with the kayak purchases. Its super fun. We also have a group of 4 others that are avid fisherman.

We spent every Saturday from Sept to the end of Oct out floating and fishing. We would usually run about a 3 to 4 mile section. Some days we all caught at least one. Some days only one person caught a fish. We went out till the end of October. That day the weather was frost at 0600 and by noon 60s. It was definitely some fun and interesting fishing. Next camping season will be so cool having the kayaks along with us. No more renting.

*This was October 29, 2022. The fog is present on the river because the air temperature is about 35deg.

 

[LUV]

I have never done a float trip before. It does sound like for. I have been rented before and had the same thought

 

[chamberpot]

I have a couple of old town kayaks that i have had for years . i fly fish out of them on local ponds, they are very easy to get around with, I can load them and be gone in just a few minutes. wouldn't trade them for anything. I had a 16 foot grumman canoe that I gave to my son and have never looked back.

 

[Pelusos]

From 12 to 15 I went to a kayak sport club, we went to the river Danube in april to september. Last year our two persons kayak overturned in early of april, water was therabout 10-12 celsius. We were escaped by speedboat by the coach. After my parents had got known it, they didn't let me that club...
Nowdays we take canoe trips on the river Tisza but I'm not a fisherman. I buy the fish in the shop and we cook the fisher soup from it in cauldron.

 

[Fancypants2001]

From 12 to 15 I went to a kayak sport club, we went to the river Danube in april to september. Last year our two persons kayak overturned in early of april, water was therabout 10-12 celsius. We were escaped by speedboat by the coach. After my parents had got known it, they didn't let me that club...
Nowdays we take canoe trips on the river Tisza but I'm not a fisherman. I buy the fish in the shop and we cook the fisher soup from it in cauldron.

Well, that sounds like a cold dip in the drink for sure!! I hope you get to do other activities to keep you busy. That river looks to be quit the waterway. Maybe along the lines of the Mississippi here in the USA. Never had boiled fish. That is apparently a good way to cook it. I prefer mine breaded as the "Friday Night Fish Fry".

 

[Pelusos]

Well, that sounds like a cold dip in the drink for sure!! I hope you get to do other activities to keep you busy. That river looks to be quit the waterway. Maybe along the lines of the Mississippi here in the USA. Never had boiled fish. That is apparently a good way to cook it. I prefer mine breaded as the "Friday Night Fish Fry".

I continued my sport activities with running, low risk of cold water...

Fish soup is my favorite, made of carp, or catfish or bream with red dried paprika, onion and fat of bacon.

 

[neophyte]

I kayaked a few times as a teen, that was in Northern Ontario (Canada) where there are thousands of lakes and rivers. It so beautiful, peaceful, and lot of fun.

I've since moved to an area that is surrounded by farmland

But I did own a boat for a while and tolled Lake Erie for Walleye, that lake is LOADED with fish!! I recently traded in my boat for a camper (travel trailer). Time to explore the forest!


Happy Travels 🌊🌳

 

[PoofsNFloofs]

I'm not into fishing, but I do love kayaking!

 

[Fancypants2001]

I kayaked a few times as a teen, that was in Northern Ontario (Canada) where there are thousands of lakes and rivers. It so beautiful, peaceful, and lot of fun.

I bet it is beautiful up there! When I was a kids, my dad was into stuff.. one was wanting to canoe the boundary waters. He was an "All or Nothing" type. 1981 was Ely, Minnesota. 1 week in Disney Land of the "Boundary Waters Experience". That fueled his thirst for extreme challenge. The next year we did a week in Canada. Totally off the grid. Maps. Paper maps. We went to Ontario. Quetico Provincial Park. I was 12. It was amazing from what little I remember. I wish I had more pictures. I remember how clear the water was. The enormity of the boulders visible under the water. We ate fish every night. We portaged from lake to lake. We had to often walk the canoes across areas you couldn't maneuver by paddling. This picture was at some place we made camp for the night. IDK who is who or which family members are present other than to say they were fishing for dinner. Yeah. You live in some amazing terrain. I hope you get to enjoy the RV wherever you get to adventure!

 

[Zeke]

I’d be afraid of spending most of my fishing time trying to right the kayak (it’s hard to cast when you’re under the kayak). Now canoes I’m quite proficient at handling. At least as long a Zane, the 154 pound yellow lab that’s pictured in my avatar photo, isn’t accompanying me. He tends to throw his weight around when he gets excited about something…like reeling in a fish! But even so I miss the brute. Sadie, my current pooch is about 100 pounds less dog, but she makes up for it in that she actually listens when I tell her not to rock the boat.

 

[Zeke]

I bet it is beautiful up there! When I was a kids, my dad was into stuff.. one was wanting to canoe the boundary waters. He was an "All or Nothing" type. 1981 was Ely, Minnesota. 1 week in Disney Land of the "Boundary Waters Experience". That fueled his thirst for extreme challenge. The next year we did a week in Canada. Totally off the grid. Maps. Paper maps. We went to Ontario. Quetico Provincial Park. I was 12. It was amazing from what little I remember. I wish I had more pictures. I remember how clear the water was. The enormity of the boulders visible under the water. We ate fish every night. We portaged from lake to lake. We had to often walk the canoes across areas you couldn't maneuver by paddling. This picture was at some place we made camp for the night. IDK who is who or which family members are present other than to say they were fishing for dinner. Yeah. You live in some amazing terrain. I hope you get to enjoy the RV wherever you get to adventure!

My folks got started going to Ontario with an older couple that owned the grocery store/butcher shop in our small town. They would go out to a large island about 30 miles off the Ontario shore of Lake Superior and then portage up to Sky Lake at the top of the island. The photos of the trout they caught up there would make any angler jealous. I wasn’t old enough to make that trip, but I was allowed to go with them the summer that I turned 8. It was explained to me that if I couldn’t bait my own hook, take my own fish off the hook, and refrain from complaining that I wouldn’t be going again so I was on my best behavior for the 10 days we were usually gone. Your story about the clarity of the waters up there brings back familiar images of deep lakes whose bottoms were clearly visible. The cabin that my folks bought in the early ‘70’s was on a lake that you could count the stones on the bottom 30 yards out from the shore when they got it. A big part of the reason why I sold in December 2021 was the lake had gotten so green with algae, as well as full of milfoil weeds, I couldn’t stand to look at it remembering what it had been 50 years earlier. Hopefully that never happens to those lakes of Ontario.

 

[Fancypants2001]

I’d be afraid of spending most of my fishing time trying to right the kayak (it’s hard to cast when you’re under the kayak).

well, big dogs like that probably wouldn't accompany you fishing on the yak. This is a stock photo.. but yeah, you know. A boat is for dogs while fishing

 

[Zeke]

well, big dogs like that probably wouldn't accompany you fishing on the yak. This is a stock photo.. but yeah, you know. A boat is for dogs while fishing

I wish that you had been around to explain that to Zane as he was quite insistent that he should be allowed to go along. Labs have such a way of making you feel bad if they don’t get their way. I adopted him when he was four so he already had bad habits that I could never rid him of. But he was a good weight to keep the front of the canoe from side slipping in the wind!

 

[BrokenMoon]

I'm not into fishing, but kayaking is my hobby.
A friend of mine introduced me to a local club about nine years ago.
Back then i was only a participant. But for the last - almost - four years i've grown into the role of a "youth coach", if the german word is to be translated like that.
We work with teenagers and help them learn the sport and organise camping trips with the boats for them.

Sadly we are one of the last clubs in our region who still care about working with some young people.
Most other clubs are rising more and more in terms of average age and slowly die off. Thats just sad to watch.

Greetings
Moon

 

[Fancypants2001]

I'm not into fishing, but kayaking is my hobby.

Sadly we are one of the last clubs in our region who still care about working with some young people.
Most other clubs are rising more and more in terms of average age and slowly die off. Thats just sad to watch.

Greetings
Moon

Hey there Moon. Yeah, that is a great thing you are doing to engage with the youth. TODAY? Yeah, there aren't enough role models to keep kids and teens on the right path from becoming Hooligans and drug addicts. Keep up that good work!

 

[Zeke]

Hey there Moon. Yeah, that is a great thing you are doing to engage with the youth. TODAY? Yeah, there aren't enough role models to keep kids and teens on the right path from becoming Hooligans and drug addicts. Keep up that good work!

They’ve managed to destroy one of the most influential groups that I was involved with as a kid, the Boy Scouts. Back in the ‘60s it was well organized and popular in my small town with plenty of involved parents. Of course back then our town actually held a parade to celebrate Memorial Day, something else that has become increased rare. One of our Scouts’ mother was a former drill sergeant in the Army and she used drill both us and the Cub Scouts daily on the proper way to march for about 2 weeks before the Memorial Day parade. Parental involvement in their children’s development is at an all time low from what I’ve seen in my 2/3rds of a century. I can see where learning how to kayak as a youth would be a great skill to develop when you’re young and you’re still flexible and agile (and teachable!).