Re: [Paddlewise] Trollling for dinner?

At 06:59 PM 4/21/00 -0700, Nick Von Robison wrote:
>Just curious if anyone trolls when they are paddeling and what their
>setup is?
>
>After a season or two of thinking and experimenting, this is what I've
>come up with.
>
>1.  I've found window sash cord to be the best line as it has some
>stretch in it, and coils nicely on the spray skirt when not deployed.
>Very supple and doesn't tangle easily.  Even with the stretch, I've
>found that a small length of bungie (3" by 3/16") tied somewhere in the
>middle of the line takes enough of the shock of a striking fish not to
>broach me.  

You can get some 1/4 rubber tubing that is used as a "shock section" for
your trolling line that'll work better.  Tie your line to a 3-way brass
swivel.   You can clip on different lead weights to one section of the
swivel to get your lure down to "just the right depth".  Tie about six
inches of rubber tubing to the other end of the swivel then tie on a few
feet of leader, then your lure.

I haven't done much trolling from my kayak but when I had a recreational
kayak I used it fairly often in the local streams for flyfishing.   One of
the things I found really useful was a small hand paddle that I took from
the plastic oars from a cheap 2 person inflatable boat.  The biggest
problem flyfishing from a kayak was being blown around in even a small
breeze and using the small hand paddle I could manoever around and orient
the boat to where I wanted to cast without picking up the kayak paddle.  I
also found it useful once I had a fish on.   During the spring there are
some huge carp that come up into the tributaries here.  They're a lot of
fun to catch on a 5 wt. flyrod.  I had one drag me several hundred feet
upstream before it finally broke off.  I never did see the fish, but I've
hooked and landed others in the 10 pound range.

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