NorCal Kayak Anglers
Kayak Fishing Zone => General Fishing Tips => Topic started by: Fish N Disc on March 21, 2018, 03:23:55 PM
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I'm wondering if anyone has good idea/method for keeping fish on a kayak. Do you all just use a stringer over the side or some kind of floating tank?
I don't plan on going salt water so no worry about sharks. Striper, crappie, catfish will be 99%.
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I'm wondering if anyone has good idea/method for keeping fish on a kayak. Do you all just use a stringer over the side or some kind of floating tank?
I don't plan on going salt water so no worry about sharks. Striper, crappie, catfish will be 99%.
Hope this old thread help...
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=83002.msg942310#msg942310
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I'm wondering if anyone has good idea/method for keeping fish on a kayak. Do you all just use a stringer over the side or some kind of floating tank?
I don't plan on going salt water so no worry about sharks. Striper, crappie, catfish will be 99%.
I've always bled my freshwater fish out and put on a heavy hoop stringer, leashes to my kayak. Can cause a drag if you got a big fish or a lot fish, but at that point it's already a win.
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I bleed and throw into a bag cooler. I'm picky about dead fish sitting in warm environments for too long
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I put fish on a metal game clip and tie it to my kayak. Then depending on what’s on it I hang it in the water or put it in the rear well of my kayak.
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I always bleed and keep cool in a soft/hard cooler. Fish taste better this way.
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If the water is cold, you can bleed and hang your fish over the side of your kayak on a stringer. But it is better to bleed and keep your fish on ice in a cooler or kill bag.
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Bag cooler. Sportsmen’s warehouse had a sale on the colombia PFG bag coolers so I got a great deal on one. It fits in the front hatch of my hobie.
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Big stringer, old costco soft cooler, and daiso laundry bag
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Game clip and I hang it over on a short leash in the water when I'm stationary and fishing. When I'm on the move, I put it in the rear with a wet burlap over it.
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Game clip and I hang it over on a short leash in the water when I'm stationary and fishing. When I'm on the move, I put it in the rear with a wet burlap over it.
Never a good idea hanging fish. I would like to start using burlap sacks and contantly wet it.
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Game clip and I hang it over on a short leash in the water when I'm stationary and fishing. When I'm on the move, I put it in the rear with a wet burlap over it.
Never a good idea hanging fish. I would like to start using burlap sacks and contantly wet it.
Its what I do...its what many do.
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I keep fish hanging on a clip over the side. Never had a problem. I keep an eye out for fur bags and pull it in then. I like to bleed them.
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I keep fish hanging on a clip over the side. Never had a problem. I keep an eye out for fur bags and pull it in then. I like to bleed them.
Same here. I dont constantly keep it in the water. If I'm early into my fishing and I got some good fish on board then you have to be aware of what you have to do to keep it cool.
On the last day of RF season last year, my buddy had his fish on a stringer in the rear of his yak. I saw a sea lion following him. He was gunning for his fish. But I alerted him and he made a sharp 180 to face the guy. It quickly turned and swam away.
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Hello,
I'm new here and was wondering...
For a cheap fish bag cooler, has anyone ever filled a garbage bag(white would be best I assume) with ice?
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Hello,
I'm new here and was wondering...
For a cheap fish bag cooler, has anyone ever filled a garbage bag(white would be best I assume) with ice?
I suspect you’d accomplish just as much with wet burlap or an old (and wet) towel.
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I bleed and throw into a bag cooler. I'm picky about dead fish sitting in warm environments for too long
This... You will end up with meat that’s much firmer and better tasting if you bonk/bleed/gut/ice right after catching.
For freshwater fish (trout mostly) I either use a small hard cooler or one of those cheap insulated cooler-style grocery bags from Trader Joes. For saltwater I use a Kill Bag made by Sea Angler.
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In saltwater I always use one of my old ab diving tubes (Not totally inflated). I clip it to the side of the yak and throw it over the side...keeps fish alive all day and no blood in the water or any troubles with furbags.
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I like the wet burlap idea while one is in motion. Can you recommend a place to get the burlap bags? I do know the lawn mower shops carry these 6 foot square burlap tarps but I'm not certain they're contaminant free.
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I like the wet burlap idea while one is in motion. Can you recommend a place to get the burlap bags? I do know the lawn mower shops carry these 6 foot square burlap tarps but I'm not certain they're contaminant free.
Michael’s, joane fabrics, etc.
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I like to use those cheap insulation bags couples with this reusable cooler called cooler shock. It's supposedly better than ice. I'm not a fan of those blue coolers you find in lunch bags because they don't really last that long. I've also just tossed fish inside of my kayak :smt102
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I think that it's important to get fish into ice as soon as I catch them, so I strap a hard-sided cooler containing a garbage bag with ice cubes in the rear cargo area of my Revolution. The garbage bag reduces clean-up hassle at the end of the day. I use four nylon straps with buckles to strap down my cooler so it can't come out of position if I get flipped over; don't use bungie cords to hold a cooler on your kayak, because a cooler can twist out of position in your cargo area if you get trundled. I put a strong bungie over the lid of the cooler, and pull it over to the side of the cooler when I need to get into the cooler. If you just lay fish on top of ice cubes, the top fish can get pretty warm, and it's surprisingly difficult to scoop ice out from under several fish and dump it on top of the fish, so I put some ice cubes in a fishing net or a nylon mesh bag which I can lift up and drop on top of the fish when I add another fish.
To keep the quality of my fish high, I usually cut their gills or gut them, and let them bleed out for a while on a stringer before I put them on ice. But I live in Montana, where we don't have any sea lions, seals, or sharks. So far. We have bears, but I haven't had any problem with them swimming out into lakes in an effort to steal my fish.
However, it's difficult to find a hard sided cooler which is long enough for big fish. You can bend pretty big fish into a "U" shape, but eventually they get too big to jam into a cooler, as shown in the second picture below. One option for big fish is to put some bottles of ice and a big garbage bag with some ice cubes under your front hatch.
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I like the hard-sided cooler option as well. This one is low profile and about $20:
https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-25-Quart-Party-Stacker-Cooler/dp/B00363PSBE