How many of you have flipped your kayak?
 

Went out to mission bay today and my kayak decided I should be swimming instead of fishing..

Once, but I wasn't on it.

When i first started kayaking i didn't know how to turn my kayak and crashed into a bouy and i flipped had to turn it over and swim back to the beach.

yep. happend to me in newport bay. lost some tackle. eehhh it was a hot day anyway:)

I was pissing off the yak and lost my footing I went off..... pfd is always ........xfator is a hard one to flip. But my boy was tied to the kelp and fliped with waders half way off ..........I wont say any names ill let him own on it.

Next weekend me and a couple friends are going to practice flipping our kayaks in my pool. Sucked getting back in.. Only lost my gaff..

And all the chovies/dines I bought like and hour prior...

Buy and release bait? That's how we roll.


See u at the pool!

Flipping in a yak with gear and bait.... Not fun.

I had my young nephews out from the east coast visiting
And we were in the bay playing around on the yak...
I have a new outback and thought I might be able to paddle
It like a SUP.... well.... I'm a big guy 250ish and was doing
Well when I thought ..... Well I'm in the bay...never had to
Flip over a hobie in the ocean..... So I decided to get us wet.
I tried to flip it over like they say by climbing on top and then
Rolling it.... Way way to hard.... I then tried grabing the
Handles from underneath and it flipped over super easy... But
This was a empty. No bait tank, polls, beer, lunch or a 40# fish...
None the less ... I feel much more confident now if I have to flip over
My yak......

Has any one tried flipping a PA.... like rolling a tank I bet...

I highly reccomend practicing wet re-entry. I practice at a friends pool and out on a lake every once in a while so if it happens anytime I know I can recover from it.

I did flip when I first started on the ocean, I was fishing out of Malibu and was turned around trying to pull something out of my tank well. I had my back turned on the ocean and a swell just hit me at the right time when my balance was off and I wend into the drink. The day after I began using rod leashes :(

Don't forget to strap your $#IT down. . .
 

Those beach take-offs and landings are where I feel most prone to tip.

After almost 1 year of kayak fishing I lost gear in my only flip/roll on a beach launch. It's bound to happen.

I'm always watching for boat wake/swell so that I'm not caught by surprise while on the water.

I'd be curious to know if anyone's flipped a yak while fighting one of those big bruiser YT or WSB?

3 times this year already :eek:

I wouldn't call it flipped,...
But more like a fifteen foot plastic javelin, "Pile-Driven" from off a solid seven footer into a sand bar & your scorpioned torso is pounded into paralysis. Fun stuff at five am in the winter swells..:doh:

I flipped coming in at LJ right before dark last night. The front pearled under and out I went! :eek: At least I wasn't the only one. I saw someone else roll in the surf when I was heading out.

The good news is that even thought I'm a newby at yak fishing I have read on the forums to leash everything and always lay your rods down or stow them inside if you can. I didn't lose anything and didn't break any rods.

Thanks to whoevers posts those were that I read. Saved me a lot of $$$ in gear I surely would have lost or broken.

I learn the hard way
 

About 3 years ago just buy a 2 people yak, my first trip to LJ and first time on the yak, i bring trinadad 20 and 30 with my 100j calstar and 9" calstar with no trap nothing the surf no flipped, paddle out and i try to stand up to thrown my jig stick i flipped the yak over and the u go lost all my stuff.:mad:

there are two kinds of people in the world...those who have flipped and those that will flip. I have flipped.

I've been kayak fishing since 2006 and still flip during beach landings.... with my previous kayak ( quest ) the surf landings werent too bad ( more successful than unsuccessful 9 out of 10 maybe) now with my PA i've flipped every time ( 3 actually ) I find it difficult to manuver that big beast in the surf

So far I have not flipped yet, and I know I mean Yet. It's like riding a motorcycle it's not if you are going to crash, but when. I feel really sure of myself if I do flip and I feel I can get back in if needs be. If you have never flipped I suggest going a practicing someday.

It happened to me once
 

I flipped one time. Well I suppose that I actually got flipped. A whale came up under me and bumpe the boat so hard I was lifted into the air and the boat was flipped upside down. Lost 4 new rods and reels. Leashes work. I use em all the time.
Oh and dont ever forget the pfd.
Chris

I learned the hard way with my back to the rollers in 85 ft of water while chasing a mack in my bait tank, sent two rods to the bottom. :arne1:

I want to know who has never flipped theirs :D.

Oh yeah and it always happens like when you least expect it.

Once I did expect it and I was driven off the back of my old extreme by a good 5 or so footer that I tried to take head on. Pretty crazy, had all the gear stored. Sat on the beach for a while and made it out the second time. That day I learned what scupper holes were for.

It happens to all of us, life is learning process. My turn I know is just around the corner.

Thanks for sharing.

5 times. I'm sure it'll happen again.

The worst was boiler rock fishin' at Dana.
I got rolled over shallow rocks, got everything
back in the kayak and then started to paddle
like a mad man to get out of the surf zone. But,
my anchor attached itself to the rocks, so I wasn't
goin anywhere. Had to dive into the water, detach
myself, then get out.

But I'll tell you what, there's nothing like boiler rock
fish for monster calicos. the wind, the surf, the fish...
It's more spooky than new moon fishin' for wsb with no lites.

5 times...

once at my first baytubers tournament... at the bait barge, no waves, no reason, just dumbass tipped... as you may have seen don took photos...

once launching at terranea in a tandem... tried to get on knees first instead of butt first...

twice the same morning launching at la jolla on a tandem... wife refused to try again, went solo...

once landing at la jolla using my fishfinder as a gauge, jumped into what was supposed to be .5 feet ends up 5 feet... tangled in my paddle leash...

it'll happen again, but i think i'm better at it... whatever that means...:D

If you are gunna flip it,:D might as well be in the surf @ LJ for everyone to see!

the paddle leash get tangled on me too when i crash or try to make a run for it if i successfully make it

Rule 16: Never use paddle leash when launching or landing.

i havent flipped mine yet but i have only been out on my yak about 10 times.

2 times - Both when LJS is packed on a Sunday afternoon. Pride neutralizer for shure. Those small sneaky waves have done it both times.

I know this one, but I hate trying to recover my paddle in case I crash and I lose my grip on my paddle

I recently flipped at Cardiff while landing my Revo because a small wave knocked my rudder down caused me to do a sharp right turn. Not fun to barrel your way in.

flipped and sank.....I'm sure more flips are in the future

No more sinking for you!

Wow, don't have my yak yet but I guess I really will have to practice flipping and re-entry before going fishing. Never realized yaks were so easy to flip. Thanks for the info.

at Clemente on an Islander trip. Sent a Graphite USA I had wrapped with a Penn GTI to the bottom in 105 feet of water. Divemaster was able to recover. Instant tip soon followed.

flipped more times than I can remember - at the landing.

I have flipped a couple times in the surf coming back in during high tide.
X2 on the no paddle leash while coming back in.... Not a good idea. Sure I will flip again too. they don't have many Launches for kayaks so you run the risk when launching through the waves.

First time landing in the surf I caught a small wave and rolled. Good thing I had done a lot of reading about this before attempting it and had all my gear stored well so nothing lost and no broken rods. Only downside was all 3 of my reels got filled with sand..... Got blasted today by 2 incoming waves on the launch and got soaked and filled my yak full of water for a moment but stayed upright. Im sure ill crash again sometime soon. Now I have reel covers I put on all my reels when launching and landing.

backflip with the mini-x while playing in the surf

I wouldn't call it flipped,...
But more like a fifteen foot plastic javelin....."Wade"

Today in my case... more like a 12'' catapult .....
what a ride.......

It was a freckin work out today with the current........
Corner....to Trem...45 min drift...2.5 hour peddle back ....

At least I came home and found a PBR in the Veg draw....7<3

I have, in the surf at LJ, misjudged incoming wave, got broadsided, all poles were in the hull (nice feature BTW), everything strapped down, only loss was my wallet... LOL... ???