I have tried the handline thing, but never was comfortable with it. Mounted a cabellas rod holder to the deck behind the cockpit, and have caught a few fish trolling top water lures. I use a 2 pc 6ft rod, medium heavy, and a baitcaster with 12lb test and the drag set pretty light. My Edisto is a bit wider than some of yalls really narrow tippy boats; but I don't think a similar setup would be all that horrible on a 22" boat. Just use light line, and a soft drag on the reel. If you are worried about being cut off by shallow water structure, use a 6ft section of 20lb wire leader. Might scare off a few line shy fish, but you won't loose that $5 top water lure either. Richard Walker Houston, TX http://www.neosoft.com/~rww/kayak_log.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 24 2000 - 07:18:46 PDT
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