- Is kayak fishing dangerous?
(birds chirping)
Is eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich dangerous?
Is getting out of your house on a normal day dangerous?
Is going to your car right now, turning it on,
get on the highway, is that dangerous?
Well, all of that is dangerous.
Just me being here right now is dangerous.
There could be anything that at any given moment,
could hurt you or even worse,
do more damage, like real damage.
That's life.
We are bold, noble creatures, and anything we do,
even drinking water, is dangerous.
(motor whirs)
Hey dude, I got my motor here
trying to keep me in position here.
Spot lock.
So that's why it's doing that thing.
You probably hear the birds too.
It is kind of grayed over there.
I started making this video while talking,
just rehearsing, (water splashes)
and something jumped over there.
Funny.
And as soon as I got, like, I was like walking
into the launch spot, and I was talking
about the danger of kayak fishing,
and something, just got in my eyes.
And as I said that, (thunder cracks)
there was a lightning strike in the horizon.
Crazy stuff.
Lightning strikes. (thunder crashes)
Shoot, this thing, anyways.
So I'm like, damn, I'm talking about the dangers
of kayak fishing, and I'm about to get on the water
and it looks nasty out there.
Then I looked at the weather,
I noticed that it was going south,
and the lightning strike was really far away,
but it still, I have that in my mind.
I had to be careful.
If it started raining quickly, I need to have back home
quickly, be safe.
Put the rod's down, so the lightnings don't strike me.
I'm not using a paddle, I'm using the motor,
so that gives me a sense of safety, a degree of safety.
I'm safer with this boat,
that is a boat that is not gonna flip.
It's not going to flip 'cause it's super stable,
a boat that has a motor with 100 an battery
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So what I'm trying to say is, I feel safe in this kayak
and this set up because of all the safety measures
that I took.
First of all, I know where I'm going.
I know that is really low tide,
I know that if worst case scenario,
I have to get out of the boat, I'm gonna be able to stand up
and have my head above the water.
Second of all, I have a PFD in case something happens to me.
If I'm unconscious or whatever, this will protect me.
Also, my family knows where I am.
I told them where I was going, what time, all this stuff.
If I don't respond in an hour, they know where to get me.
See, this is like, all of this is like automatic right now.
I have my cellphone with me, which is waterproof,
I have it attached to my vest.
It has a GPS signal that alerts my wife,
where she knows where I am all the time.
You know, I have sunglasses, I got plenty of water.
I have a game plan.
So I'm making it as safe as possible for me to go fishing,
and that's what you need to do.
So it's kinda fishing safe.
It is in quotation, as long as you make it safe,
as long as you take the precautions,
if you're brand new into the sport, I mean,
don't just go grab any kayak
and go to a freaking, what do you call that?
A damp, whatever, moving water.
You know, just be careful.
If it's 15 miles an hour, wind, don't get on the water.
If the weather is nasty, if it's thunderstorm, rainy,
don't get under water.
If you're gonna go off-shore, and it's a crazy day,
like Memorial day or whatever day that all the boaters
are out on the water, do not go where they are.
Avoid them.
Take precautions, do all the safety stuff,
and you'll be fine.
Like for example, have a flag in there
just in case they cannot see you, have a whistle.
Where's my whistle, right here.
(blows)
Wait, how would does it usually go?
(whistle whistles)
Yeah, have a whistle in case you had to whistle them.
If you're fishing at night, have a nightlight,
all that stuff,
take all that necessary precautions, and you'll be fine.
Is anything safe?
Is eating safe?
I mean, you could be eating something
and you're not paying attention to your eating habits
and you may gain 500 pounds and die of obesity,
or you could just be eating a normal meal
and the wrong thing gets stuck in the wrong place,
and you could die.
So freaking anything you do in life could be dangerous
if you're not paying attention,
if you don't know what you're doing.
Get rid of all of that fear that you have
about buying a kayak, and making it work for you,
and go get one, and take it easy.
Watch my channel, look, I have like 600 videos here,
and like 300 plus of them are about kayaks, and kayak tips,
and all that stuff, so watch all them.
You're gonna be a professional in no time, I'm telling you.
Anyways, I better go and catch a few fish
because if not, you guys won't watch this channel anymore.
'Cause it's kind of fishing, right?
So I need to catch fish.
(snaps fingers) Let's go.
(camera beeps)