Things I've Lost from my Yak

I leaned forward to look and heard a "ploop" noise and ..........

-Craig

god I hate that sound. 

   That's exactly what I said to myself when I read "and heard a "ploop" noise " 

-Spot-

I leaned forward to look and heard a "ploop" noise and ..........

-Craig

god I hate that sound. 

   That's exactly what I said to myself when I read "and heard a "ploop" noise " 

-Spot-

I got lucky and found a suitable replacement for her today.  It also supposedly can shoot video in 3D.  Costco had a good deal on the newer model of what was lost. 

The ironic part of the whole incident is that the only other pictures I took were of landmarks to locate nice crank baits I had snagged.  In fact I had just lost another walleye deep diver in 16 fow near the railroad trestle.  I was going to email them to Pelagic Paddler since he said he occasionally free dives the Willamette for fishing treasure. I figured it could help him zero in on a few of mine. If you are out there PP I have the ultimate scavenger hunt for you. Dive here at the south side of the rock pile off of George Rodgers Park:     
 
Find a Panasonic Lumix camera, remove card and dry it out.  Then, utilizing the third and fourth to last pictures, home in on landmarks located in this vicinity:   


There will be a few crank baits nearby.

The beat goes on.....

Those plastic plier type lip grippers float...unless you attach a metal clip to them and fail to clip it something...

Garmin GPSMap 76Csx....and the worst thing is....it floats! It fell out and I hadn't noticed....and off to sea it went. Sigh.

I am new to kayak fishing; in fact, today was the first time I have fished from my 3 month old Hobie Oasis. I went with my buddy, Bittelsmon, who is also a newbie, but has a few trips under his belt. We floated the Yamhill, starting in Dayton, and down into the Willamette, taking out at Rogers Landing in Newberg. 

All went well. We didn't get any bass, but I learned a few things about my kayak, how better to do some things, and it was a gorgeous day, so no complaints. When we got to Rogers Landing at about 6:30 on a nice Saturday evening, so it was, of course, crowded. I thought I be courteous and take my kayak out on the dock, and not use the ramp, which was full. I dumped out the 5 gal bucket of water that I was using as ballast in the empty front seat, put it on the dock, and then put my Mirage drive, PFD, and two poles in the bucket. Then I proceeded to pull my kayak up on the dock, and promptly knocked the bucket over, and spilled the contents into the river.

While I was trying to not say a whole string of very bad words, a very quick passerby reached down and grabbed my PFD, which had the Mirage drive pedals hooked through a armhole, and wrapped around the fins of the drive was a jig attached to not one, but two, poles.

You might notice my tag line, which I wholeheartedly believe because I have seen it repeated in my life too many times. Of course, in the case I am not claiming to be good, but I am claiming to be extremely lucky. It was a very good day

Nice salmon net, a few bait knives, and a game clip.

I'm new to the NWKA forum and Kayaking, haven't even received my kayak yet but have already lost "my mind" over the possibilities and anticipated enjoyment. If you happen to be out and run across it (my mind), please leave it where you find it as I haven't used it for some time and if its in or near water, I'm certain its much happier there. Hope to meet many of you, maybe catch a fish or two and or even share a camp fire.....peace. 

Vanilla Hawg Trough. Didn't have float or leash 

Time for a NWKA trough!

Three anchors on the umqua river this spring while sturgeon fishing.   200 feet of anchor line and anchor line spool. 
Gunny sack and some bait on a close call during a surf landing.
A small fortune in jig heads and rigs.

Having kayak fished for at least 20 years you'd think I'd have lost an awful lot of stuff, but most has been tackle and pliers.  That was until the 2010 Depoe Bay Rockfish Classic.

This is what I remember losing:
Pliers
2 Lamiglas rods
2 Abu level winds
2 Plano trays full of worms, Kokohos, jig heads, etc....
A few bags of Berkeley Gulps
Several ziplocks of squid & octopus in different scents
A flag
An Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 waterproof camera I swore was tethered down.
A little pride!

After 20 years humping it in the Army generally everything gets secured and the DBRC was an exception.  Two things I'll say about tethering and leashes are 1) Clips not knots and 2) "Keep em short" as when you spill you don't want to get tied up which could prevent a self rescue and actually promote a drowning.  Don't ask me how I know but I can tell you, where they were wrapped still hurts occasionally!

The bands still playing...

cheap digital camera and about 150 Kayak wars points, that was yesterday....

I'm new to the NWKA forum and Kayaking, haven't even received my kayak yet but have already lost "my mind" over the possibilities and anticipated enjoyment. If you happen to be out and run across it (my mind), please leave it where you find it as I haven't used it for some time and if its in or near water, I'm certain its much happier there. Hope to meet many of you, maybe catch a fish or two and or even share a camp fire.....peace. 

Ha ha ha ha NO WAY!

If I find it, I'm going to take it offshore and wreck it for good.  Isn't that right Noahk? 

-Spot-

Yesterday.  Off the Wells Point oil dock.  Big pink on in 170 FOW, ocean tug towing an oil barge blaring their horn at me (for no reason - I WAS NOT a factor in their mooring to the dock), guy on the fan tail screaming something unintelligible, leader on the flasher and lure combined to be too long for the net, trying to peddle to make the tug happy, tossed the net down and wrestled the fish into the boat from the line.  Net gone.  Promar foldable.  Story continues and ends tragically. 

Game Clip with 2 19" or larger Cabbies, a 25+ Ling, and a 16"+ Greenling.

Game Clip with 2 19" or larger Cabbies, a 25+ Ling, and a 16"+ Greenling.

And my stringer with a couple 15" greenling the next day........yeah, I won't let you live it down......... At least mine was just a cheap piece of rope though. The crab at Hobuck ate good that weekend.