Big Fish!

[Moonyaker]

I took my boys to rugby last Sunday Morning as usual and got talking to one of the other dads who it turned out is a Diver and we got onto the subject of fishing and Kayak Fishing and he had seen Simon Everett's most recent Article on Tope fishing in BFM and I wildly speculated that that maybe that after Tope that someone would be mad enough to target Porbeaglesfrom a Kayak and he then told me that the guys he dives with have been buzzed and plagued by a 9ft Porbeagle in recent weeks which they estimate is around 450-600lbs in weight. Having just read BFM again, If such a fish is detained it would easily be a world record. He said that one of the local charter boats had hooked this fish several times but had not been able to capture it. If all this is true, the fish is within an easy paddle!

[GB]

Wahay sounds great, altough I'm not to keen on water skiing.

 

Having landed a few porgy's myself I would not reccomend targeting this speices from a yak unless you got some serious experience in kayaking and of handling large shark. Tope are a walk in the park compared to porgy's. My P.B is only in the low 100lb mark and that was a serious hanfull even on 30lb class gear.

[Hungry Fisherman]

the weight a kayak can keep afloat stat wise is around 250 kilo isnt it i think a 600 shark may well have more than enuff power to actually drag you and your yak well under

[kelvindavies11]

lol but what a experience lol. Th eboys in the local pub would take great joy in seeing me on the front page of the local page: 'Local kayak fiserman's sunk well fishing for porgy's '

 

kelvin

[Starvinmarvin]

Not if you had the drag set correctly

 

SM

[kelvindavies11]

good shout satrvin, i think it could be done. Someone posted a vidoe the other day of those americans fishing for sharks on their kayaks. The guy on there said they grow upto 200 lbs, so maybe its possible lol.

 

Im i right in saying they would be the say size as the kayak??? lol

 

kelvin

[chevin]

Hungry Fisherman:

the weight a kayak can keep afloat stat wise is around 250 kilo isnt it i think a 600 shark may well have more than enuff power to actually drag you and your yak well under    

Perhaps if it sounded and you didn't give line, but sharks rarely go straight down in my experience so you are more likely to go for a towed ride! Having been towed by bronze whalers in a 12' boat, I would think that hooking similar fish from a 'yak would be exhilerating!

[Starvinmarvin]

With regard to that video clip, did you here the guy say that they occasionally get bit not sure what I would prefer, being bit or getting a treble in the chin... neither I guess.

 

From a personal point of view, without a mothership I think that targetting the larger sharks would be foolhardy, the guys in the states have been targetting the threshers for some time and have experience of catching and handling big fish from their kayaks.

 

It's great to talk about it, but to go for it would need proper organisation... would make one hell of a story in the pub afterwards.

 

SM

[Starvinmarvin]

Having said that if anyone gets organised, I'll be there.

 

SM

[MJB]

Moonyaker:

I took my boys to rugby last Sunday Morning as usual  

Moonyaker,

 

I see you're located near Warminster. Which club do your boys play for as I coach the Under 11's at Warminster.