Thread: Tell us about your worst day on the water in your kayak this year. I will start.

Went again this morning and now this makes 4 bad trips in a row....think I am going to start sleeping late.

You luck has got to change. Take a deep breath and go with gusto.

My bud tells me some horror stories from time to time . He is kayak guide though . I only been in a kayak one time myself so I ain't got a story to tell .

I have only been on a yak for a few months. I have no horror stories like that. I guess the worst so far was one night I did all the prep the night before for a full day of smallmouth fishing on Cherokee Lake, TN. I use 4 lb flourocarbon and ultralight equipment when smallmouth fishing. I got the drag set where I wanted it and the next morning I was ready. My first fish of the day took a nose dive to the bottom and snap, the line broke. Thinking I had nicked the line, I retied and continued. The next hookup went deep again and snap again!! Some how between setting the drag the night before and that morning, my drag had locked. I ended up tossing the reel. I couldn't free and it up.

Well I have had 4 bad trips in a row now. The post above was the first but not the worst. Trip number 2 the 2nd day of the big bass tournament involves a long paddle a hard portage and I finally get to my first fishing hole fairly tired to discover I have lost my cell phone. This is a picture and release tournament and I need my phone to take pictures and post to the tournament web site. So I start back to the truck hunting my phone. I find the phone at the start of my portage where I dropped it. So now to portage back and start fishing. I am fishing for 15 minutes and I start hearing the loudest thunder I have heard in years. So I head back to the truck wet and exhausted I decide to call it a a day. I will post about trips 3 and 4 in the next couple of days. Decided not to go out today...wonder why.

Change your user name to lucky,maybe that will help!

My bad days are the ones where I'm not getting to go. Way too many of those.

Well I will go ahead and post about trips 3 and 4 tonight. I decided to try to find a spring fed area in the backwater of Wheeler so last Friday I got up before daylight and headed out...packed up the kayak and fishing stuff real quick that morning and was sitting in the kayak at the bank by daylight, when I realized I had forgotten my paddle. I do get to blame this on the work I am doing in my garage right now, nothing is in its right place. So I make a few cast from the bank and head home, to work in the garage with a determination to have a good trip Saturday morning. Well I clean up in the garage Friday and get the kayak loaded and truck backed in the garage Friday night, make sure I have my life jacket and paddle. Organize my baits that night and tie on what I plan to fish with...knowing this will be a good trip. Next morning I am back at the same launch spot at daylight. I launch out hunting the colder spring water. Well in my search I am fishing and breaking in a new rod and reel, seems like all my casts are a little off and I am hanging up a lot. I go in to get my lure off a bush and just about have it loose when I am covered in red wasps. I am getting stung in the face arms, legs, shoulder, and chest under my life jacket. I can not paddle fast enough to get away from the wasps, so I roll off the kayak into the water for relief. I am lucky I am not allergic to wasp stings like other members of my family. I stay in the water up to my nose while the wasp settle some, then manage to fish my 2 rods and paddle back from just a couple of feet of the nest and paddle back to the launch site. I head back home to work in the garage again. Now I believe working in the garage allowed me to sweat out the wasp poison and by night I can not tell I have been stung. Now after 4 trips like this I am still eager to get back on the water, but I do think I will finish the Garage redo before I do much more fishing.