Mono+Kayak+Long Cast+Single Hook Bait=?

[king fisher]

31 minutes ago, CDMTJager said:

Not trying to hijack this thread whatsoever, but I picked up a 12' Sundolphin arm paddle kayak at a great price for purely fishing smaller lakes near my home and have watched OVER 100 kayak fishing 101 videos on everything pertaining to both kayaks and fishing from them and no body touched on backing up instantly after a hook set I mean not even hinting as much. 

I will have to research this more thoroughly as I can see this being essentially impossible to do in a arm paddle kayak.  

I fish lakes in Mexico, where a 10 pound bass may bite on any cast.  I find many of my bigger bass in suspended in trees, or next to flooded barbed wire fences.  Large bass can easily pull me into the cover instead of me pulling them away from cover.  For this reason I am ready to reverse on every cast.  Smaller bass are not a problem and I can get a good hook set and land them without going in reverse.  I never know when a DD bass will bite, so I am always ready.  A peddle kayak makes it easier but I'm sure most of the time, even with large bass you wont have a problem landing bass in a paddle kayak.   Just be in position, and be prepared to make adjustments before you cast.  It is not the same as fishing from a boat. 

[1984isNOW]

1 hour ago, CDMTJager said:

arm paddle

If you don't have a pedal drive it's not essentially impossible, it's just plain impossible. I literally bought a pedal drive yak just to be able to fight fish with less being pulled around - I'm currently training myself to include my feet during /immediately after a hook set like @king fisher

 

It doea take some getting used to, let myself get pulled into a tree recently forgetting to pedal backwards first, then grab the net. By the time I had the net it was too late, wrapped a 5/6#r around a submerged branch and wrestled it for a while until it the line snapped.

 

Fish that size are a really big deal around here, it hurt

 

2 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

stretched her line, dug into the bottom of the spool, locked up her reel

How did stretched line lock up the reel? Like stretched during the fight while reeling under tension, and then it created an extra tight wrap around the spool? 

 

Did the line lock in itself or did the spool lose its ability to spin? 

[bulldog1935]

@1984isNOW - the thinner stretched line dug under the line stack at the bottom of the skirted spool.  The line simply wouldn't cast out any more - wouldn't budge on the spool.    

On that old reel, a combination of the extra-thin line (reduced to like 2-lb dia), generally poor line management and spindle/rotor flex in a '90s reel tackling too much fish. 

The light reel on Falcon 6-1/2' Open Hook Special made a great combo for my daughter through her teens.  I landed a couple of over-slot reds on the combo, but that was the first and last day for Berkley Spiderwire Copolymer. 

The reel was go-to for my daughter, more often fished finesse niche on Falcon UL rod, and lasted several more years, eventually replaced by Tica with Kamikaze copolymer, and Stradic with threadline braid.  (my daughter is grown now)

 

[1984isNOW]

@bulldog1935 Respect! 

 

Thanks for the explanation

 

What is kamikaze copolymer?

[bulldog1935]

@1984isNOW most of last decade, I wouldn't have anything to do with braid.  (Braid caught up, now I fish nothing else).  

Post from Oz was cheap before all post went wonky in '20 - I noticed this link, closing out Kamikaze in Melbourne.  We're talking salt-specific XUL line, low memory, good sink, abrasion resistant - became a dinosaur with advent of Japan x-braid.  

The diminutive Tica Cetus and 4-lb line landed salt doubles fishing UL tandem jigs, including a slot snook doubled up with an undersized spec (the fish fight each other on the heavier leader, you just have to net the big one).  A skill I honed putting growing daughters on fish pays off big now every winter...