Fishing in a Kayak

[MuskieBait]

Definitely safe as long as you are prepared with all safety gear.

I have friends in Hawaii who paddles 10-15 miles in their kayak out into open ocean to fish for tuna, wahoo, dorado and marlin on regular bases. Obviously, they have to pick their days to go, but 2-3 foot swells isn't uncommon and considered a relatively calm day. You can do a lot on a kayak...just need to prepare all the safety gear, learn and practice strokes, roll over and re-entry, and get lots of experience handling various water conditions.

Make sure you know what kind of water body you wish to fish. For small ponds, a short 9' wide body kayak can handle most small pond situations, even smaller lakes on calm days. For rougher water, you would definitely want something at least 12' long and a good hull to battle some waves.

Here's a good site with a lot of good people.

http://www.yakfisher.net/smffiles/index.php

I was on the site learning and had a yak for about 2 months...but living in an apartment and carrying a 9' yak up a narrow staircase for 3 floors wasn't fun...and the yak didn't get any use...so I sold it in the end and stick to land based fishing for now.

Ken