How To Surf Your Fishing Kayak

Good skills to know. Saved my ass a few times.

Go out and practice!

broach & brace has saved me more times than I can count. In a fishing SOT I'm more about landing clean than I am surfing. The main thing is to avoid a yardsale or a broken wrist or shin.

broach & brace has saved me more times than I can count. In a fishing SOT I'm more about landing clean than I am surfing. The main thing is to avoid a yardsale or a broken wrist or shin.

+1 on that. You can only side surf when the surf is small and on a gradual beach. On steep shore breaks like Limekiln and Monastary your chance of successfully side surfing a SOT is pretty much 0%.

Yea that surf down La Jolla is fuckin' killer. He could have died. I like Marvs video much much better.

This technique has saved my bacon several times at Gerstle.    It did me no good at all at Bolinas.  I felt like a pin ball.

Check this guy out on the 2:10 minute mark

Yea that surf down La Jolla is fuckin' killer. He could have died. I like Marvs video much much better.

               

         Check out at the 3 minute mark.    Kayak was full of water coming back in. 

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broach & brace has saved me more times than I can count. In a fishing SOT I'm more about landing clean than I am surfing. The main thing is to avoid a yardsale or a broken wrist or shin.

+1 on that. You can only side surf when the surf is small and on a gradual beach. On steep shore breaks like Limekiln and Monastary your chance of successfully side surfing a SOT is pretty much 0%.

Agreed. Sometimes your only chance is a few seconds of window to get in and get yourself out of the danger zone. There's no surfing at Monastary.

The last minute looks nasty.

For myself on the bigger breakers  if I get caught sideways I point my feet towards the shore and lean back making a t.

If I'm surfing a sit on top, I want thigh strips. Controlling the boat with your hips is a must. If I was launching in surf consistently I would add them. Personally, if I want to kayak surf, Im grabbing my whitewater yak, I would rather roll than swim and chase my boat. One of these would be even better:
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Check this guy out on the 2:10 minute mark

Thanks for sharing my vid!    The surf was pretty small that day but hopefully it shows how effective a brace can be in keeping you from dumping in the surf.

Check this guy out on the 2:10 minute mark

Thanks for sharing my vid!    The surf was pretty small that day but hopefully it shows how effective a brace can be in keeping you from dumping in the surf.

     Nice !!!    That had to be a very rare day for conditions like that up along your coast. 
   
 This video was just posted on the TKF forum.  Those Gulf coast breakers stretch out a long way, making for quite a battle getting past the breakers.       Keep in mind this is his first time trying this kayak in the surf...
   



     

Looks like something I will have to practice!