This is WHY You Use Live Bait Offshore Kayak Fishing!

good morning guys we are here at the beach we are about ready to go offshore we got some great conditions today you can see flat calm we're gonna do some trolling we're gonna do some Reef fishing we're going to try a little bit of everything so I'm gonna hurry up and get out there I already saw fish busting bait on top so we're gonna get started [Music] thank you [Music] all right guys let's get started I'm seeing a little bait bust let's go ahead and throw this real quick God big lady fish big big lady fish all right at least now I know what they are oh no yep yep big lady fish so I got done playing with the lady fish and decided to get down to business catch some bait so I could start trolling so I caught a few cigar minnows and I caught one beautiful looking scaled sardine which is one of my favorite baits to troll behind the kayak so I got my trolling rig out which is a 6500 pin spin Fisher liveliner on a Shimano travala jigging Rod it works really well on the kayak and I've got 50 pound Beyond braids spooled on it with the shock leader of 40 pound mono connected to just a standard king mackerel rig with a duster on it so that's a J hook with a small bit of wire with a treble hook attached to it and you put the J hook in the nose of the fish and then you hook the treble hook in the back this is the time of year that you never really know what you're gonna hook trolling offshore because there's Cobia coming through the tarpon migration is starting you've got king mackerel and Spanish in the area and they've already caught some sailfish so when that Rod bends there's no telling what's on the end of your line all right guys we got a big old scaled sardine on that we're trolling let's get that in the rod holder and it didn't take long for the action to start yep a big old tarpon oh boy when trolling in a kayak one of the biggest decisions you have to make is whether you're going to troll one line or two lines there's benefits to both with two lines of course you can have two different baits I like to run like a crankbait on one closer to the kayak and then put a live bait way far back but you always risk tangling with the other line when you have two lines out with one line there's no risk of getting tangled so that's why I'm trying to get this other line reeled in right now foreign big here guys I'm just trying to get my God Lee this is massive I don't know what this is okay got the other line in good all right that's not a run like a king it was like jerk jerk jerk that's different from a king not sure what this is still got quite a bit of line out this might be a king just gonna take it real easy don't know what this is but it is big I hope it's not a shark I don't think it's a shark oh there he goes this is massive I don't think this is a king I'm not sure what this is golly I'm not gonna horse this guy oh big head shakes loosen the drag just a little no need to horse them it's not like their structure it's going in circles oh I saw I think I saw it down there Maybe come on it's coming up to the top it's coming up oh I see something is that a shark or is that a Cobia thank you it's looking Sharky oh it's a black tip dang it ah I did not want to mess with the shark this morning just gonna have to cut the line dealing with Sharks next to the kayak is always a dangerous thing especially with the smaller medium sized ones like this one trying to de-hook a shark from the kayak you're more than likely not going to have good results so the best bet is to cut the line as close to the shark as possible the small treble will rust out quickly and the shark will be fine all right thank you ah thought I had a good one here come on swim off okay there he turned over all right he's swimming off now stupid shark all right let's go drop some live baits so I made it out to the reef and was gonna do a little bottom fishing so my setup for bottom fishing for heavy fish is a five and a half foot heavy star boat rod with a Avid conventional reel and I've got 60 pound mono on there that mono provides some abrasion resistance when those fish get around the reef or go into a rock or a hole I got a three foot leader of 30 pound fluorocarbon connected to a three Ox circle hook and I'm using uh three ounces foreign just like trolling this was almost an instantaneous hit when the bait hit the bottom oh I think I got them this is big feels like a big red snapper oh my God oh whoa oh gosh oh where are you red snapper season buddy wow jeez oh good fight holy moly circle hook right in the corner perfect wow that is a beauty he's going to grab my fish grips you're not gonna open for me are you all right guess he's not going to open his mouth that thing is a beast wow what a beauty he's about about 30 inches all right let's let him go he is gone yeah holy moly that's why I like using that heavy out of it on there you uh stand a lot better chance Landing that big fish like that all right now let's get a grouper check my leader I think the leader's fine yep these are good that's just 30 pound leader too oh crap I forgot all about this guy while I was dropping my bait on the bottom I forgot that I had a flat line out behind the kayak which is not a big deal as long as you remember it's there and you don't let it get tangled in your pedal drive my other line oh damn look what he did to that hook wow all right let's see what kind of mess we got going on here uh don't be in the oh no fit in the pedals [Music] all right yep all right oh boy all right we're done with this one for today to restring this one up so the lesson here is if you can't stay cognizant of having two lines out at once don't do it just put one line out I got excited with that Snapper and I completely forgot about my flat line out so this put a big damper on my day and trying to get everything untangled I knocked my braid scissors over into the water so lesson learned I hope you guys learned something from this video and I hope you enjoyed it don't forget 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