Originally Posted by
flintcreek
Rigging is half the fun. Best advice I received when I first got my kayak was put it out in the front yard, practice casting and putting fish in your cooler, getting lures out of your tackle bag....just play like you are fishing and make sure you are happy with everything before you do too much rigging....spend 30 minutes in it in the yard or if the weather is like it is here you might have to sit it in the living. My first outing in my kayak I loaded it down with the my tackle crate, cooler and went out after some bream. They were biting real good and I probably caught close to 100 in 2 to 3 hours. Most in the 9" range. I was really hoping to bring home a limit. Figured out on the first fish though that that would not happen, I planned to keep them in a cooler in the back of the kayak but real quick realized I could not reach the cooler all the way in back of the kayak. I should have tried it out in the yard, if I had I would have carried my fish basket or stringer.