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This is the beginning of a new era for me, Kayak fishing is my new favorite sport! I'm seriously hooked. This video I take the maiden voyage for my new Old Town Sportsman Salty PDL 120 Kayak. I'm learning a lot and will be posting more videos on this journey!
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Things are about to change around here
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Alright, good morning people. It's Jesse here. It is... what time is it
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It's 5.15 in the morning. So sunrise is 5.30 and this is the very first time I'm getting my kayak on the ocean
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So it's very fun because I get to try a bunch of new things. But today is just about a trial
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So very much a trial. I did bring a rod as well but I really just want to get a feel for the kayak this morning
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So I don't even know if you can see me right now. You can see me but I might have to do a better intro out of the water here
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But let's get at it. Let's go in
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The water actually feels not bad
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So the drive is going to go in. Once I get into a safe depth
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Alright, first time using this thing. Hope I'm doing this right. It's got to be like a... get in there
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Right about there. Like that. Beautiful
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Already this is really really cool. I gotta get a photo of this
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This is gorgeous. There's a Charlene boat ramp right there. Well here, today's video is just about getting out and exploring
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So not a whole lot of fishing. I did bring a rod but I don't really plan on doing much
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I just want to see kind of the speed and distance I can cover. I want to use my..
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I have an avionics app on my phone. I just want to see how that works a little bit
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But yeah, so it's just really a testing thing. So thanks for watching and there's going to be a lot more of this to come
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Alright, so we're headed towards this little point here. It is... we're in about 100 feet of water here. 99
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And we're going to go... see there? It's up to 31. I don't know if you can see that
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But that's a little mountain underwater. So we're going to head there and fish all along the..
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all the incline there. I'm just going to drop a buzz bomb. See if we can find anything there
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So it's not too far offshore either. So holy cow! First fish
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It's not very big. It's just a little guy. But my gosh! We got a fish Jess
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This is unbelievable! I think it's just a little rockfish. Oh, what do we got here? Look what we got
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A little rockfish. Wow! Look at this! Wow! It's a rockfish! It's a rockfish
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It's a rockfish! It's a rockfish! It's a rockfish! It's a rockfish
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It's a rockfish! It's a rockfish! Wow! I didn't expect to catch anything
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I was just fiddling around. Ah, cool! Copper or uh... vermilion? No, not vermilion
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Vermilion are the red ones. These guys will spike ya. We're not deep water here so I don't need a descender
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This is only 30 feet of water. So I fully expect him to go back down
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There he goes. There he goes. There he goes back down. Okay, let's try this again
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This could be a ling. This could be a ling. It's either a good rockfish or a good ling
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What do we got here? It's a good little rockfish. That's a good size rockfish
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Holy cow, it's huge! No, it is a little ling. It is a little ling. Oh, it is a little ling. Cool. Cool
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Look at this guy. Not legal but... Actually, I should probably keep him in the water
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Oh my gosh, this is amazing. How am I catching these guys
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Oh, he's about 20 inches maybe? I don't know, it's hard to say
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He's got some... Beautiful though. Beautiful. There he goes
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There he goes. Down, down, down he goes. Where he goes, only he knows
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Okay, so we found a... He hit it right away. That was pretty cool
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We got a rockfish and a ling cod right away. Let's see if we can find a bigger one
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That was cool. Good little fight. This rod is nice for this
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If you're getting for bigger guys, this rod handles it no problem
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You can see how thick it is. Look how thick this backbone is
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It's not too long because you don't want to be... I don't like too long of a rod unless I'm trolling or using it for salmon
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Because you're bottom fishing, you don't need that long rod. So this 7.5 is perfect
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BC Ferries. And nope, heading off to Horseshoe Bay. That's beautiful. Sun rising
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Dropping a line. Right off the shore. This is great. Pretty shallow water now I think
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Oh, there we go. And there's a fish. Right as we're talking
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This is not very big. Probably a rockfish. Yep, rockfish. I was getting distracted getting a little..
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We're in super shallow water. We're only in 30 feet of water right now
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So it's pretty... Pretty easy fishing right here. I would say. That's cool
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I mean, I've caught these guys before from the boat. But man, it's really special when you're catching them from the kayak
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Alright. Let's get those pliers out. No problem. There he goes
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That's a line. Oh my goodness, it's a strong rockfish. Huge rockfish
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No, it's a greenling. Oh, it's a good kelp greenling. Oh, that's a good one
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Oh, he's eating this guy. Oh yeah, he's eating... I'm eating this guy for sure
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That's a good sized kelp greenling. Hokey dine-a. Look at that. Well, sorry bud, but you're getting bonked
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Alright, let's see what we got here. Yeah, I kind of do want to keep this one actually
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I'm going to eat this one. I don't even know what to say
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Honestly, I feel like Game Changer is an understatement. I feel so blessed
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And this is just This might be one of the most exciting fishing
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changes that I've ever done. This is so beautiful. This reminds me of when I was a kid and I would
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always get up early when we were on holidays on our lake holidays in Manitoba
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I'd get in the paddle boat and I'd go out in the middle and go fishing for smallmouth bass
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for pike and walleye and I'd get up early and do that
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and this just takes me right back obviously on an ocean completely different
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but it's just a really special moment. I'm amazed. I wish I would have started doing this earlier
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This is an incredible, incredible experience. I'm just starting so yeah, again, I just feel very blessed
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Thank you, Lord. Look at that. Gorgeous weather. Zero wind. Alright
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Going into the Charlene Ramp here. We're back at the boat launch here
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Charlene Ramp. And so I decided to keep one green lean. You can keep three of them
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in my current area here. I kayak on the rollers here on the cart
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I'm just going to cart it up the hill here. Looks pretty good
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Now I'm just going to get in my car. Okay, now I'm just going to show you
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how I'm going to put this kayak back up on here all by myself
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The kayak itself weighs about 85 pounds. The drive is about 20
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So it's just over 100 pounds. So it's heavy enough. It's easy with two guys
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But with one guy, you just got to be a little more strategic
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in how you move it up there. I'm talking like I'm an expert
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So if you can get it to a place where it's just kind of leaning on like that
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that you can rest on it, it's not so bad. I can use this
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A blanket helps. There we go
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Not too bad one person, but the blanket really helps. It helps kind of add a little bit of slide
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and protection for the car and for the kayak as well. I think that's a smart thing
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Now I just got to strap it down. Just about to show you what I was doing
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Basically I tied a cam strap through there. It's going through and then I can just shut the door
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and it goes over. Yeah, so it just attaches there. It's just an emergency thing from sliding
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back and forth. I don't know how well that would hold. Got one ratchet strap there
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Usually I would do two ratchet straps actually. But anyway, I got a cam one there
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I don't know. I've been told that you're not supposed to use ratchet straps on kayaks. I don't know if that's true
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But it kind of warps them so you can really cinch down. But I didn't really cinch down very heavy
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on that one. And then I got, of course, the one in the middle
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You can see how it lays nice and flat. Again, the purpose of
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this video was just to take you out for its maiden voyage
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I wasn't showing all the ins and outs, all my gear and breaking down everything
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I was just lucky to catch those fish which was pretty cool
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I'm going to do some more videos of I'll show you all the accessories and everything about the boat
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and what I'm learning. One thing I will say is that I don't think you should be buying a ton of accessories
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until you get your boat on the water. Even my first time out there, there's
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things I'm starting to think about and maybe change my initial game plan. It's great to do your research
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and sure, there's lots of accessories to buy, but I would say hold off
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on buying too much. Get out there a couple times. See what
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you like and get a sense for the boat before you go a little crazy
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Something to think about. I'll be showing you those in a different video. I'll talk more about my gear
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what I'm fishing with and how I'm even thinking about targeting some of these fish
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This is super fun. Thank you so much for watching this video
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and I'm excited for a lot more content like this. If you
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really like this, please give me a thumbs up subscribe. That helps me so much
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it helps the YouTube algorithm. I'm excited to put some more content up here
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Thanks guys. Appreciate you and we'll see you in the next one. Whapam
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