Kristine you are a blueprint for being a professional at your chosen craft. So many people could learn from you how to react and overcome when your plan gets destroyed and have to readjust and think on the go. Thank you for all you do the lady fisherman and ladies in general.
It is always fun to watch a great fisherman work. Thank you for taking us along and allowing us to sit in the back of your kayak. Stay safe, God Bless!
I met you about 8 years ago. You were fishing at Memphis Lake in Nebraska and you had a head net on because the mosquitos were so crazy. You've come a long way and I'm happy you're living your dream.
Good video, nice come back from day one! I like the fact that you completely deal with tournament fishing on your terms, a sign of a determined and confident professional, you go girl! Take care and be safe!
Great work keeping your composure. Most people would have totally spun out after day one but not you. Very impressive and a fantastic example. Keep the great stuff coming.
This was back when you had that “I refuse to set the hook” psychosis thing going on. Glad to see you finally crossing their eyes when they bite these days!!!
Good job and great video twinkle toes. Nice comeback to move up 30 places. Guntersville, I which you luck and dreams. Big hook sets for Guntersville, it could be 1 lb or 8 lbs at the time your going to fish it. I wish you 8 lbers 👍👍
Love your overall attitude, even when you don't have the best results. You're a hammer and I enjoy following your days out on the water. I've learned so much from you as a kayak fisherman myself. Good luck on the next one... I'll keep rooting for ya! Speaking of, I struggle so much with skipping jigs under cover and am always impressed with how easy you make it look. Any way you could give a short skipping tutorial? I always seem to backlash horribly when I try it, lol!
Ah thank you so much! Attitude is key, for fishing AND life, I’m a big believer in that! I need to try to do that, I’ll make an effort to get one posted !
@@kristinefischer2289 I know you stay busy especially with tournament season back at full swing so whenever you have free time I'd really appreciate that. No rush, though... I'll for sure keep an eye out for it!
Man I would loovvveee to do some Florida fishing in the early year. Pretty risky to change up locations for the tournament! Looking forward to finishing the video to see how you did.
They say there are no dumb questions but I am going to ask anyway… Do you sharpen your hooks? When my best friend and I fished my hook to land ratio was 3:1 over him. He thought it was bad luck. I would spend time at night while watching TV putting a razor edge from the tip to the barb on the inside of the hook. It would sink the hook in the upper mouths of many fish (especially tarpon) making my day more “lucky” than his. Most fish shake off when hooked in the upper part of the mouth because the barb is not set. Just my 2 cents.
I think you're setting the hooks fine. Jacking the hook set really hard like in the 1970's pops open the mouth and doesn't let the hook point find any purchase into the mouth- especially when a big weight or jig head is involved.
I didn't catch the lures you were using. Also, how much tackle do you take with you? Terminal and lures. (Trying to get a good idea how much to stock on board) Just beginning my kayak fishing. Thanks
I think I would be putting a floating fly of some description on their heads. There is footage of Lee Wulff from many decades ago in Minipi, Labrador (Lee Wulff was sort of the o.g. in the freshwater kayak fishing sport I would argue). Except Lee didn't use parking lots. He un-bolted the two halves of his kayak and attached them to either leg of his airplane instead. And then flew around above water in the province searching for places to fish for Brook trout. If one reads Lee's literature from the nineteen fifties decade now. What he talks about are search baits that he used, that could be like 'sea gulls' he called them. Notice the way that fish had cleared the water about a foot in order to savage at some bait that was well off the water. The truth about floating fly lures, is they often land with a motion through the air. The resembles one of those World War Two gliders coming in to land in Europe. That is often the trigger for those kinds of strikes (the fish is tracking the lure like a missile air defense system). They're not thinking just like submarine commanders, they think in terms of air defenses too. As gear anglers, the assumption that gear anglers fall into. Is that 'top water' fishing has to involve something that starts to fish only when it hits 'the water'. The point about the floating fly lures, or the sea gulls as Lee Wulff used to call them. Is to create some ominous looking silouhette or shape that fish can track over head as it glides in the air. And fish frequently smash the bait as it lands (not like a hard plastic top water, but like something totally different). When you can get that close to fish in a kayak, it's an obvious change of tactic. Notice the clarity of the water there too. Certain shad at certain times of the year do aerial acrobatics too (it's part of the spawning behavior of bait fish to aerialize themselves like seagulls or tiny airplanes). Frank Scalish says some even fire themselves out of the water and up on to dry land. So bass are opportunistic and will hunt for them along the edges.
Kelly J Bostian in OK had a short piece with Dave Whitlock, his foam popper is an interesting bait (no kayak guys have ever mastered that). The ideal thing is where the cast aims for an elevation of around the top of the reeds. And when the line is restricted at the end of the cast, the foam popper gently settles down on the surface on the edge of reeds.
That is another angler that creates bass guide poppers and flies, Alvin Dedeaux. His Dedeaux Popper, or Flip Flop Popper (assuming that the sponge material is sourced from footwear items), being one of those. I still have a hunch that many of the bass anglers are missing the thing, of where their flies are even made more lightweight and subtle that using flip flop foam material to float. There are some of the bucktails and deer hairs that can be employed to make them even lighter than that (where perhaps the front half of the fly could use a small front half of a floating swimbait plastic too). And the rear portion is made of some kind of hair material (in other words, to create something like a bass hair jig, that uses a soft plastic swimbait piece for the jig head instead lead weight). Don't know if it would function or not. That water in Florida as shown (the top of water is like absolute 'glass' on that occasion in February 2023), suggests some different kind of approach to me.
David Quam salvaged some old sixteen millimeter footage from the late forties or early fifties. Where Lee Wulff traveled by airplane to Newfoundland and into Labrador in search of brook trout. I remember it was published in 2010, I must have come across it some time after. It was entitled 'Wings for an Angler'. Worth a look at, to see what kayak anglers were doing then. I looked at the Hermit company too (they fish for Artic Char, which is a salmonoid species like Brook Trout, Grayling, Whitefish, Salmon etc that live even further north in Greenland and Iceland). The Hermit guys had a fly making vice for use on location. For making their Artic Char fishing flies, they refer to as the Palmer fly tying vice. It's something I started to do a bit more in the past decade, was to make small adjustments to hooks and tackle closer to the water, and the time of fishing. I'm still not totally bought into the concept. However, one can see Lee Wulff and these early kayak angling pioneers who did lure making on the water, even back then.
Depends on the bait- setting the hook too hard will pop their mouth open too wide and not let the hook point find the meat. Let the point find the meat and then give a good steady pull.
@@cuivre2004 PS Watch a few minutes of MLF, all those pros fishing anything but a crank bait or swim bait would disagree. Soft plastics get a full hook set.
Hi, Kristine can you please win me a kayak like the one that you have so I can complete my mission of saving our beautiful waterways universe by picking up Trash and keeping it clean? Can you please donate one?
I watch allot of your videos and notice you lose a ton of fish. You look like you pull into all your hook sets vice setting the hook. I usually do not provide my "personal" opinion but maybe that is where you need some work?
Yes! I have one 8610XSV for livescope and one 106SV for the rest- if you got to my 2023 kayak rigging video I have them linked. The 8610 is actually a salt unit but has amazing resolution and pixels for Ffs.
Kristine you are a blueprint for being a professional at your chosen craft. So many people could learn from you how to react and overcome when your plan gets destroyed and have to readjust and think on the go. Thank you for all you do the lady fisherman and ladies in general.
It is always fun to watch a great fisherman work. Thank you for taking us along and allowing us to sit in the back of your kayak. Stay safe, God Bless!
I met you about 8 years ago. You were fishing at Memphis Lake in Nebraska and you had a head net on because the mosquitos were so crazy. You've come a long way and I'm happy you're living your dream.
Oh wow! Haha that is wild!!! Memphis used to be so good!
I so appreciate that no matter what your attitude stays positive! Gratitude is the BEST attitude. Love your channel - keep ‘em coming!
Thanks for your time
Good video, nice come back from day one! I like the fact that you completely deal with tournament fishing on your terms, a sign of a determined and confident professional, you go girl! Take care and be safe!
For sure! Yes, I get stubborn sometimes ;)
Great work keeping your composure. Most people would have totally spun out after day one but not you. Very impressive and a fantastic example. Keep the great stuff coming.
Good to see you and a great comeback. Always go with your instincts..that is what makes you successful! Tight lines
Thanks Dawn!
This was back when you had that “I refuse to set the hook” psychosis thing going on. Glad to see you finally crossing their eyes when they bite these days!!!
Awesome video! Always great content!
Good job and great video twinkle toes. Nice comeback to move up 30 places. Guntersville, I which you luck and dreams. Big hook sets for Guntersville, it could be 1 lb or 8 lbs at the time your going to fish it. I wish you 8 lbers 👍👍
Glad to hear you’re coming to Guntersville. I hope to get to meet you. I’m in it.
Wonderful!!! Im so excited for it! Hope so too!
Love your overall attitude, even when you don't have the best results. You're a hammer and I enjoy following your days out on the water. I've learned so much from you as a kayak fisherman myself. Good luck on the next one... I'll keep rooting for ya!
Speaking of, I struggle so much with skipping jigs under cover and am always impressed with how easy you make it look. Any way you could give a short skipping tutorial? I always seem to backlash horribly when I try it, lol!
Ah thank you so much! Attitude is key, for fishing AND life, I’m a big believer in that!
I need to try to do that, I’ll make an effort to get one posted !
@@kristinefischer2289 I know you stay busy especially with tournament season back at full swing so whenever you have free time I'd really appreciate that. No rush, though... I'll for sure keep an eye out for it!
Awesome comeback on day two, you fished hard and finished pretty darn good out of a field with that many competitors. 👍
Appreciate that! It was a stacked field for sure! Not the finish I was hoping for but that’s ok! Had a great time!
I’m swim jigging it up for sure this weekend at Headwaters.
Man I would loovvveee to do some Florida fishing in the early year. Pretty risky to change up locations for the tournament! Looking forward to finishing the video to see how you did.
I know! Usually I play it safe and stick to my plan but I got a wild hair on this one. I figure if you want to win sometimes you’ve got to gamble 😂
Awesome video 😎🤙💯💯💯
Thanks for the visit
I went to Apopka on day 2, only got 1 at 18.75, the water was pretty dirty, probably due to all the wind. I hope we go back there, I want revenge 😂
Leave the yeti hat in the truck. Keep the blue hat for tournaments. Seems to be working 😊
They say there are no dumb questions but I am going to ask anyway… Do you sharpen your hooks? When my best friend and I fished my hook to land ratio was 3:1 over him. He thought it was bad luck. I would spend time at night while watching TV putting a razor edge from the tip to the barb on the inside of the hook. It would sink the hook in the upper mouths of many fish (especially tarpon) making my day more “lucky” than his. Most fish shake off when hooked in the upper part of the mouth because the barb is not set. Just my 2 cents.
I had that kind of luck on Kissimmee during kbf on day one better luck at your next one
Thank you! We all have those days !
A plan is just something to deviate from :D
I think you're setting the hooks fine. Jacking the hook set really hard like in the 1970's pops open the mouth and doesn't let the hook point find any purchase into the mouth- especially when a big weight or jig head is involved.
Lol. Ok.
Does G have his own channel? I noticed he has go pros on his kayak as well.
I didn't catch the lures you were using. Also, how much tackle do you take with you? Terminal and lures. (Trying to get a good idea how much to stock on board) Just beginning my kayak fishing. Thanks
Oh no , got 5 yaaaa
Great 👍🌹
Thank you! Cheers!
Get you a file an hand sharpen those hooks ! It may help
What camera set up do you have? I've recently bought a couple of GoPro hero8. and don't know if is enough. And you are just running one
set the hook!! :)
I know I was slacking big time
@@kristinefischer2289 ya i thought early on you were just sort of reeling into the fish. you usually bust em!
What launch was this out of
9:25 🤣🤣🤣
Ah it's a tournament thing
Where are you fishing at?
Harris chain
Might I recommend a new hat? Seems like your yeti has has some bad mojo.
The thing I think I would be doing.
I think I would be putting a floating fly of some description on their heads. There is footage of Lee Wulff from many decades ago in Minipi, Labrador (Lee Wulff was sort of the o.g. in the freshwater kayak fishing sport I would argue). Except Lee didn't use parking lots. He un-bolted the two halves of his kayak and attached them to either leg of his airplane instead. And then flew around above water in the province searching for places to fish for Brook trout. If one reads Lee's literature from the nineteen fifties decade now. What he talks about are search baits that he used, that could be like 'sea gulls' he called them. Notice the way that fish had cleared the water about a foot in order to savage at some bait that was well off the water. The truth about floating fly lures, is they often land with a motion through the air. The resembles one of those World War Two gliders coming in to land in Europe. That is often the trigger for those kinds of strikes (the fish is tracking the lure like a missile air defense system). They're not thinking just like submarine commanders, they think in terms of air defenses too. As gear anglers, the assumption that gear anglers fall into. Is that 'top water' fishing has to involve something that starts to fish only when it hits 'the water'. The point about the floating fly lures, or the sea gulls as Lee Wulff used to call them. Is to create some ominous looking silouhette or shape that fish can track over head as it glides in the air. And fish frequently smash the bait as it lands (not like a hard plastic top water, but like something totally different). When you can get that close to fish in a kayak, it's an obvious change of tactic. Notice the clarity of the water there too. Certain shad at certain times of the year do aerial acrobatics too (it's part of the spawning behavior of bait fish to aerialize themselves like seagulls or tiny airplanes). Frank Scalish says some even fire themselves out of the water and up on to dry land. So bass are opportunistic and will hunt for them along the edges.
Kelly J Bostian in OK had a short piece with Dave Whitlock, his foam popper is an interesting bait (no kayak guys have ever mastered that). The ideal thing is where the cast aims for an elevation of around the top of the reeds. And when the line is restricted at the end of the cast, the foam popper gently settles down on the surface on the edge of reeds.
That is another angler that creates bass guide poppers and flies, Alvin Dedeaux. His Dedeaux Popper, or Flip Flop Popper (assuming that the sponge material is sourced from footwear items), being one of those. I still have a hunch that many of the bass anglers are missing the thing, of where their flies are even made more lightweight and subtle that using flip flop foam material to float. There are some of the bucktails and deer hairs that can be employed to make them even lighter than that (where perhaps the front half of the fly could use a small front half of a floating swimbait plastic too). And the rear portion is made of some kind of hair material (in other words, to create something like a bass hair jig, that uses a soft plastic swimbait piece for the jig head instead lead weight). Don't know if it would function or not. That water in Florida as shown (the top of water is like absolute 'glass' on that occasion in February 2023), suggests some different kind of approach to me.
@@academicmailbox7798 Bruh
David Quam salvaged some old sixteen millimeter footage from the late forties or early fifties. Where Lee Wulff traveled by airplane to Newfoundland and into Labrador in search of brook trout. I remember it was published in 2010, I must have come across it some time after. It was entitled 'Wings for an Angler'. Worth a look at, to see what kayak anglers were doing then. I looked at the Hermit company too (they fish for Artic Char, which is a salmonoid species like Brook Trout, Grayling, Whitefish, Salmon etc that live even further north in Greenland and Iceland). The Hermit guys had a fly making vice for use on location. For making their Artic Char fishing flies, they refer to as the Palmer fly tying vice. It's something I started to do a bit more in the past decade, was to make small adjustments to hooks and tackle closer to the water, and the time of fishing. I'm still not totally bought into the concept. However, one can see Lee Wulff and these early kayak angling pioneers who did lure making on the water, even back then.
What rods do you use?
Abu and Fenwick!
So, if one jumps in the kayak with you does it count as a catch? :)
It has to be hooked in a sporting manner.
set the hook girl!
Doesn't seem like a hook set ever really, just pulls back.
@@jimoconnor8597 I was thinking the same thing! I’ve always been the one to let them have it when I know they got it in their mouths lol.
Depends on the bait- setting the hook too hard will pop their mouth open too wide and not let the hook point find the meat. Let the point find the meat and then give a good steady pull.
@@cuivre2004 Well that didn’t work did it?
@@cuivre2004 PS Watch a few minutes of MLF, all those pros fishing anything but a crank bait or swim bait would disagree. Soft plastics get a full hook set.
don't the top of your feet get sun burnt
Seem like he wouldn’t sit in the hook very hard on most of the fish a lost
Hi, Kristine can you please win me a kayak like the one that you have so I can complete my mission of saving our beautiful waterways universe by picking up Trash and keeping it clean? Can you please donate one?
I watch allot of your videos and notice you lose a ton of fish. You look like you pull into all your hook sets vice setting the hook. I usually do not provide my "personal" opinion but maybe that is where you need some work?
Can you tell me which Garmin you use i have a pro angler 14 and im looking for electronics but not sure what to buy
Yes! I have one 8610XSV for livescope and one 106SV for the rest- if you got to my 2023 kayak rigging video I have them linked. The 8610 is actually a salt unit but has amazing resolution and pixels for Ffs.
@@kristinefischer2289 ok great thank you so much for the info i love your videos👍🏻