How many of you have flipped your kayak? - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

YakMedic · 08-21-2011, 08:51 AM

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

DanaPT · 08-21-2011, 09:30 AM

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?

pchen911 · 08-21-2011, 10:00 AM

wade · 08-21-2011, 10:14 AM

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..

dadd827 · 08-21-2011, 10:35 AM

I flipped coming in at LJ right before dark last night. The front pearled under and out I went!

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.

WahooUSMA · 01-12-2012, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by wade

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..

Happened to me once too.....Ended up with my Salas stuck through waders and into my calve...big lesson learned for me - I rig up out past the breakers, not on the launch, unless of course the surf is ankle slappers!

mazilla · 01-12-2012, 05:28 PM

I'd have been having goose with my dinner that night...

08-21-2011, 09:30 AM	#2
DanaPT Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: South OC Posts: 1,606	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?

08-21-2011, 10:14 AM	#4
wade Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oceanside Posts: 1,214	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.. __________________

08-21-2011, 08:51 AM	#1
YakMedic Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Wrightwood Posts: 623	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

08-21-2011, 10:00 AM	#3
pchen911 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 218	3 times this year already

08-21-2011, 10:35 AM	#5
dadd827 Junior Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: La Mesa, CA Posts: 29	I flipped coming in at LJ right before dark last night. The front pearled under and out I went! 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.

01-12-2012, 05:28 PM	#7
mazilla advocatus diaboli Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Diego Posts: 154	I'd have been having goose with my dinner that night...