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Maiden Offshore Voyage and Wheels For W500 Fishing Kayak – Ken From Katikati, New Zealand
I went out in the kayak for the first time this morning. The wind appeared to have eased off, so I went out from Beach Road at 8am. High tide was early this morning, so it wasn’t the best time to go, but I didn’t want to wait any longer to try it.
I ended up paddling in the sitting position, and felt quite happy with that, even though the wind got up and I ended up having to paddle into a 500mm chop and strong head wind..
I shall have to do some fine tuning in how I use it, but the bottom line is that I am thrilled with it, and it will get a lot more use than my [name brand sit-in kayak]. Continue reading
New Kayak Flotation Down Under, By Dennis Hodgetts, New Zealand
My son (24 and bullet proof) goes fishing in huge seas, up to 3 metre surf [about 10 ft... a metre is a meter spelled in non-U.S. English, or about 1.1 yard]. He has repeated this several times. Continue reading
Posted in fishing kayaks, kayak fishing, kayak outfitting, kayak paddling
Tagged cockpit cover, fishing kayak, flotation, kayak fishing, kayak recovery, New Zealand, ocean, offshore, pacific ocean, surf
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New Website For Wavewalk Kayaks’ Distributor in New Zealand
Hodgetts Ltd, Wavewalk Kayaks’ distributor in New Zealand launched their new website: The website is very well designed, and features reviews, articles, movies and a lot of useful information. Congratulations Dennis! Continue reading
Posted in fishing kayaks, kayak fishing, kayak outfitting, kayak paddling
Tagged fishing kayaks, Kayaks, New Zealand, stand up kayak fishing
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Dennis Catching 100 lbs Eagle Ray – New Zealand W Kayak Night Fishing Report
I have mentioned before that our local harbour has a lot of sting rays. There are 2 varieties, Short tail and Eagle rays. Eagle rays are more numerous and can be spectacular to catch. They will leap from the water – they put up a massive fight. Short tails just tend to stick to the bottom and can be almost impossible to move.
I was fishing at night – about 8pm – and all of a sudden my reel started to scream, and there was no prize for guessing that I had hook an Eagle ray. It took about 300 metres [330 yards] of line – I wound in most of that in and off it went again – and this was repeated over and over.
Kayak fishers will cut the line quickly with these beasts because they pull so hard you either loose a reel full of line – or if you can apply enough drag to stop these things you can capsize a kayak easily. I wanted to get this fish to the W500 –initially because I didn’t want to lose all my line. and later because I just wanted to see how big it was.
It took me about 1-1/2 hours to get it to the kayak. I had my cell phone with me and tried to get some photos, but because it was so dark, and I was holding the line with one hand to hold the rays head at the surface of the water, it was very difficult. I only really got head shots of the thing. Continue reading
Posted in fishing kayaks, kayak fishing
Tagged eagle ray, Emmrod, fishing rod, New Zealand, night fishing, night kayak fishing, ocean, offshore, ray, saltwater, sting ray
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Dennis’ Account Of His First Time Paddling His W Kayak Standing Up
The very first time I went fishing in the W500, I missed the tide, and had the small anchor dragging because I had a very strong tidal flow and a strong wind both in the same direction.
As I headed back to shore I noticed a young guy on long SUP board. I hadn’t tried standing before that, but since the afternoon’s fishing was a right off I thought that I would give the stand up paddling a go.
After paddling my W500 sitting down up wind and standing up down wind a few times, I noticed that the young guy was paddling to shore and walking along the shore before re-launching each time, because he couldn’t paddle his board against both tide and wind.
I didn’t really take much notice of who was faster because I was busy experimenting. I found that if I leaned my weight on one side of the kayak, I could paddle on the other side and didn’t need to change over. It was fun, and if I can do it second time out then most people should be able to. Continue reading
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Tagged New Zealand, ocean, offshore, paddling standing, standup fishing kayak, standup paddling, SUP
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