Love your videos Kristine! ! My husband wants a kayak so bad but he has Lyme Disease and I just dont think his balance would be up to that. Have a hard time keeping him from falling out of our 20 foot bass boat...lol. cant wait for your next video! Love ya girl!
I always wait just a second to set the hook on frogs and it's so disheartening when I see my frog still there. I have faith that you have a better next day. In your corner girlie!👍
Nice job hanging in there. Have you tried delaying your frog hook set by a fraction more of a second. I know it's hard & a frog bite can be very frustrating... 🍺🎣
Bravo c'est toi la meilleure !!! J'adore tes Ferrages !!!👍☘️🉑☘️🇨🇵🇺🇲..ne lache rien !!! continue !!!!!! 💪🎣 Je te vengerai en mangeant des grenouilles ce soir!!!🇨🇵😉😅 Bon courage et bonne chance pour la suite....
Goodness at 2:15 you jerked so hard I thought you were backflip'n in the water 😂😂 I was gonna go look but I'll wait for the vid. Great comeback those last 2hrs!!! It was looking ruff for a minute! Hope'n for 5 20's on day 3😮. 👍👴🦸♀️🎣🇺🇸🦅
I think you might be a little early on those frog hook sets? Maybe that’s why they came off? I know I always used to make that mistake. Just a thought. 👍
Hi Kristine! Big fan. Was wondering if you tried bending your hooks out any at all ? Sometimes a small adjustment will help with frog hook up. I realize that you can go too far & the frog will catch grass. Anyway, enjoy the Tournament content. Pulling for ya
Might want to look at sharping those hooks, just saying, but I’m sure you already did that or have new hooks on. Good luck and keep those videos coming! Jeffvm
If you think it takes you longer than 5 minutes to catch, measure, and release. They a 20 minute loop. Now in your editing app, it will break that 5 minutes into 1 minute segments.
You're killing it, keep it up. Maybe don't be so aggressive setting the hook. I know you need a good set but you may be over doing it. I feel like you're either gonna fall out of the kayak or all the fish in the lake are gonna have tore lips. Give it a shot, short hard jerk instead of a hernia maker pull.
It's not that the hook set is too hard, it's too early. When fishing frogs, we all want to set the hook when we see the blow up. I am as guilty as anyone in this regard, but I fish buddy tournaments with a guy (Steve Benner), who has mastered this, and his hook up and landing ratio is very high. Wait until you feel them!
Just a though, in your time off set aside a whole 'set' of other fishing rods (the same set or collection as what you'd normally work with for all of the typical baits and lures that you throw). Except, rather than size or spec those fishing poles to what you work with in normal circumstances. I get it, the backbone or stiffness of the fishing pole is a thing, that say when hunting after a species such as Musky one would lean on more. As the last thing you want in that instance is a noodle that wraps around like a bow, as you're trying to bring a Musky into a landing net. Each time you bring that Musky towards a landing net and it does it's thing of being a steam-train that charges back into the cover. The stiffer fishing pole for Musky or Pike can make that fish work each time and thus play out the fish. And that's why at three minutes into this, I'm looking at fishing poles that don't even budge almost, even when it gets the most Almighty crack (typically with that hookset for a freshwater bass type of species, with that amount of force I should have seen a fishing pole that was bent in two). And I didn't see that. What I saw was a fishing pole that barely flexed.
It's a big akin to asking a pro golfer to re-build their swing, or their putting technique and short-game. However, it's something that I think will need to be explored. One has to let go of at least one or two increments of stiffness in that freshwater bass fishing pole. And get down to somethiing that is more under-powered than it is over. And see what happens next. That was a hookset that was worthy of a thirty pound mass of Musky fish lying underneath the water surface. As opposed to a small, compact, chunky bass fish. It's hard to replace and change over to different fishing poles just in one go. So the only way one can accomplish it, is to have a whole set of spares. That serve the purpose of being able to use them, to figure out what the ideal fishing rod type is. Bear in mind something else. That in kayaks on is standing on a place that is above the water surface level (that already provides the bass angler with a strategic position to hookset from). Trust me, standing waist depth in water with a fly rod or something, and having fish eat your fly at thirty forty yards away, and in fast moving water. You don't have nearly the same strategical position relative to one's fish ot hookset, as one does from a kayak. Where one is effectively poised and standing on the plane of the water surface. A lot of wading anglers in river would give a major organ, to have that advantage versus being 'in the water' and down at lower level. Even what you can see from a five to six foot height above the water surface when in a kayak, is a major advantage for seeing the 'eats'. Total it all up, one doesn't require the sort of rod stiffness that I'm seeing in these pictures. One can get by with way less.
With the fishing poles with virtually no 'give' in them or flex, what you'll find is that you're multiplier reel is not able to 'pick up' the length of fishing line that it needs to. In order to capitalize on that initial tightening of the fishing line. That was achieved by that 03:00 minute hookset example. So what happens is when you hawl into a bass in that way, with a fishing rod with more flex it bends in two. And before the fishing rod has had the time in which to straighten back out again. You buy yourself about a half a second or so, which is enough time for the fishing reel to come back into engagement with the fish (and you can thus play the fish from the reel). Which is what Kris had attempted to do there, except the reel wasn't able to do a fast enough line pick-up to match with the stiffness of that fishing pole, and the ferocity of the hookset that was employed. Another thing you can try, as an alternative option is to switch to the highest ratio reel possible and go to a limp braid line. And that might increase the pickup speed (saltwater anglers actually use large diameter spinning reels for this reason as they reckon it's a faster line pick up per second than with baitcasting reels). So there are those kinds of options there. The problem though was that the reel wasn't fast enough to engage with the fish and maintain tension, after that initial hookset was completed.
As I said, if you re-learn how to work with 'slower' action rods with less backbone. You do sacrifice the ability to hookset a bit. But it also maintains some tension, while the slowness of the reel itself, trying to pick up line and engage with fish. Following those sudden takes. At the moment though, that fishing pole is too fast action, doesn't have enough flex. And that time gap is not being bridged. If you slow down the footage and re-look at it, it should be apparent.
One other thing that would help, in that situation where there is a big fish take at that close proximity. If the fishing pole is too long in length, it won't work in one's favor either. It might be an example of a case where one carries a purposefully under-length fishing pole. Just in case that take comes too close to the kayak. Like it did in that situation at three minutes. What the shorter length fishing pole does in that situation, is it takes the fishing pole more out of the equation. When it comes to the hookset. And it brings the fishing reel and line pickup back into the equation more. You can't do that super fast reaction hookset (to use a ski term, that gets you out over your ski's). The longer length of that rod and the speed of the hooset action meant that the reel couldn't engage in the follow-up enough to hold on to the bass. And they get free. A shorter fishing pole, like the bass anglers used in the old, old days. May have been an advantage there (and I can see some logic now, in how those old anglers used short rods). They were practically standing right beside of bass in those days, when they caught they from those old bass boats. That were jumped up Jon boats mostly, or a lot like modern-day kayaks to be fair.
As a person during my stupid/learning/broke stage of fishing with Walmart kayaks almost drowning and battling hypothermia to now having a legit pedal drive kayak my self, you still give my anxiety the way you lean on the secondaries of that thing 🫣😂
Nice job Kristine. Way to trust your instincts and head back. Go get em on day 3!
So many experts….congrats on an amazing year!
The way you can stand up and plop down on that chair so effortlessly is crazy to me. My 220lb body could never.😂
My wife and I are hoping you win. Go get em girl!
Appreciate you both!
Love your videos Kristine! ! My husband wants a kayak so bad but he has Lyme Disease and I just dont think his balance would be up to that. Have a hard time keeping him from falling out of our 20 foot bass boat...lol. cant wait for your next video! Love ya girl!
You need to check out a pro angler, they are Rock solid stable!
My money is on ya Kristine. You got this. The best angler on the water and the nicest too
I always wait just a second to set the hook on frogs and it's so disheartening when I see my frog still there. I have faith that you have a better next day. In your corner girlie!👍
Same here!
Best of luck tomorrow! 🍻
Nice comeback 👍
Nice job hanging in there. Have you tried delaying your frog hook set by a fraction more of a second. I know it's hard & a frog bite can be very frustrating... 🍺🎣
👍✌️ young lady praying for you, good luck..✌️👍
Good day, you are so fun to watch. Win this doggone tourney
You are so kind, I gave it my all!
Bravo c'est toi la meilleure !!! J'adore tes Ferrages !!!👍☘️🉑☘️🇨🇵🇺🇲..ne lache rien !!! continue !!!!!! 💪🎣
Je te vengerai en mangeant des grenouilles ce soir!!!🇨🇵😉😅 Bon courage et bonne chance pour la suite....
Muchas gracias !
Goodness at 2:15 you jerked so hard I thought you were backflip'n in the water 😂😂
I was gonna go look but I'll wait for the vid.
Great comeback those last 2hrs!!! It was looking ruff for a minute!
Hope'n for 5 20's on day 3😮.
👍👴🦸♀️🎣🇺🇸🦅
Have you notice that when you set hook over your head you miss them but when you set hook to your side you catch them
You are amazing!!
Why to rally back from the early frustration staying focused great job !!
Thank you!
You go girl!!
Doing your best is all that anyone can ask for. May the God above shine down on you day 3. I’m waiting for the video..
As good as the cove is , i don;t know if i would have left it, lot of options in that mat pad. keep up the good work,
Good luck
Quick question… do you ever troll while going from spot to spot just to make sure you didn’t leave anything on the table?
GO GIRL
I think you might be a little early on those frog hook sets? Maybe that’s why they came off? I know I always used to make that mistake. Just a thought. 👍
That looks like the day use area at Harrison Bay
Hi Kristine! Big fan. Was wondering if you tried bending your hooks out any at all ? Sometimes a small adjustment will help with frog hook up. I realize that you can go too far & the frog will catch grass. Anyway, enjoy the Tournament content. Pulling for ya
Yes, I had these slightly bent out :(
You need to go fish Cave Run Lake in northeastern Kentucky for Musky in March
I’ve been.. cave has always done me dirty haha
I think you are great , however you may need to try a Texas rig or Carolina rig ?????!
Gotta say between you and G your clinch is way better😅
👋 stranger here getting caught up
Might want to look at sharping those hooks, just saying, but I’m sure you already did that or have new hooks on. Good luck and keep those videos coming! Jeffvm
Not a bad call. Definitely will next time!
@@kristinefischer2289 all the best to you in the upcoming tournaments, just go easy on my Canadian friends! Lol
Stay safe your awesome!
Thanks! You too!
2 words…stinger hook! They make them for frogs.
Get several different frogs on a few rods… they offer one with a trailer hook
Yes they do, sometimes I add one
Throw the frog but also flip it. If anyone can do it you can. Go get em girl!
Looping on the gopro will save SD Card space.
Set to 5 minutes looping. Fish all day, catch Release stop camera saved the Last 5.minutes.
I’ve got to start doing this
If you think it takes you longer than 5 minutes to catch, measure, and release. They a 20 minute loop. Now in your editing app, it will break that 5 minutes into 1 minute segments.
You're killing it, keep it up. Maybe don't be so aggressive setting the hook. I know you need a good set but you may be over doing it. I feel like you're either gonna fall out of the kayak or all the fish in the lake are gonna have tore lips. Give it a shot, short hard jerk instead of a hernia maker pull.
It's not that the hook set is too hard, it's too early. When fishing frogs, we all want to set the hook when we see the blow up. I am as guilty as anyone in this regard, but I fish buddy tournaments with a guy (Steve Benner), who has mastered this, and his hook up and landing ratio is very high. Wait until you feel them!
It is SO hard to wait…
Will be praying for you tomorrow
Thank you Jill
You’ve definitely have fallen of your yak with those hooksets . 🚀
Should’ve thrown a spinnerbait in that area where you had to leave white or chartreuse color or even a slobber knocker
Problem was the fish were sucked up under the mats. Less than 1’ water. Only thing to do was frog
Never tried it before, but I know its hard to set the hook on a frog from a kayak.
Being in a kayak without a power pole is so hard.. bc it moves right towards them and you lose power
How many 12 inch fish have you caught in one day and have you almost won a tournament with 12 inch fish
This is the most 12’s I’ve caught all year and no, I don’t even think I had a 12” fish in my limit this year
....sharpen those frog hooks...
Are you allowed to troll in these tournaments??
No we cannot
who loses more fish? kristine or scott martin? lol
This year? Definitely me 😢 I have a bad wrist injury I’m getting surgery finally tomorrow actually.. hoping that helps me get some power back
How about you try to win it all.
Three minutes in.
Just a though, in your time off set aside a whole 'set' of other fishing rods (the same set or collection as what you'd normally work with for all of the typical baits and lures that you throw). Except, rather than size or spec those fishing poles to what you work with in normal circumstances. I get it, the backbone or stiffness of the fishing pole is a thing, that say when hunting after a species such as Musky one would lean on more. As the last thing you want in that instance is a noodle that wraps around like a bow, as you're trying to bring a Musky into a landing net. Each time you bring that Musky towards a landing net and it does it's thing of being a steam-train that charges back into the cover. The stiffer fishing pole for Musky or Pike can make that fish work each time and thus play out the fish. And that's why at three minutes into this, I'm looking at fishing poles that don't even budge almost, even when it gets the most Almighty crack (typically with that hookset for a freshwater bass type of species, with that amount of force I should have seen a fishing pole that was bent in two). And I didn't see that. What I saw was a fishing pole that barely flexed.
It's a big akin to asking a pro golfer to re-build their swing, or their putting technique and short-game. However, it's something that I think will need to be explored. One has to let go of at least one or two increments of stiffness in that freshwater bass fishing pole. And get down to somethiing that is more under-powered than it is over. And see what happens next. That was a hookset that was worthy of a thirty pound mass of Musky fish lying underneath the water surface. As opposed to a small, compact, chunky bass fish. It's hard to replace and change over to different fishing poles just in one go. So the only way one can accomplish it, is to have a whole set of spares. That serve the purpose of being able to use them, to figure out what the ideal fishing rod type is. Bear in mind something else. That in kayaks on is standing on a place that is above the water surface level (that already provides the bass angler with a strategic position to hookset from). Trust me, standing waist depth in water with a fly rod or something, and having fish eat your fly at thirty forty yards away, and in fast moving water. You don't have nearly the same strategical position relative to one's fish ot hookset, as one does from a kayak. Where one is effectively poised and standing on the plane of the water surface. A lot of wading anglers in river would give a major organ, to have that advantage versus being 'in the water' and down at lower level. Even what you can see from a five to six foot height above the water surface when in a kayak, is a major advantage for seeing the 'eats'. Total it all up, one doesn't require the sort of rod stiffness that I'm seeing in these pictures. One can get by with way less.
With the fishing poles with virtually no 'give' in them or flex, what you'll find is that you're multiplier reel is not able to 'pick up' the length of fishing line that it needs to. In order to capitalize on that initial tightening of the fishing line. That was achieved by that 03:00 minute hookset example. So what happens is when you hawl into a bass in that way, with a fishing rod with more flex it bends in two. And before the fishing rod has had the time in which to straighten back out again. You buy yourself about a half a second or so, which is enough time for the fishing reel to come back into engagement with the fish (and you can thus play the fish from the reel). Which is what Kris had attempted to do there, except the reel wasn't able to do a fast enough line pick-up to match with the stiffness of that fishing pole, and the ferocity of the hookset that was employed. Another thing you can try, as an alternative option is to switch to the highest ratio reel possible and go to a limp braid line. And that might increase the pickup speed (saltwater anglers actually use large diameter spinning reels for this reason as they reckon it's a faster line pick up per second than with baitcasting reels). So there are those kinds of options there. The problem though was that the reel wasn't fast enough to engage with the fish and maintain tension, after that initial hookset was completed.
As I said, if you re-learn how to work with 'slower' action rods with less backbone. You do sacrifice the ability to hookset a bit. But it also maintains some tension, while the slowness of the reel itself, trying to pick up line and engage with fish. Following those sudden takes. At the moment though, that fishing pole is too fast action, doesn't have enough flex. And that time gap is not being bridged. If you slow down the footage and re-look at it, it should be apparent.
One other thing that would help, in that situation where there is a big fish take at that close proximity. If the fishing pole is too long in length, it won't work in one's favor either. It might be an example of a case where one carries a purposefully under-length fishing pole. Just in case that take comes too close to the kayak. Like it did in that situation at three minutes. What the shorter length fishing pole does in that situation, is it takes the fishing pole more out of the equation. When it comes to the hookset. And it brings the fishing reel and line pickup back into the equation more. You can't do that super fast reaction hookset (to use a ski term, that gets you out over your ski's). The longer length of that rod and the speed of the hooset action meant that the reel couldn't engage in the follow-up enough to hold on to the bass. And they get free. A shorter fishing pole, like the bass anglers used in the old, old days. May have been an advantage there (and I can see some logic now, in how those old anglers used short rods). They were practically standing right beside of bass in those days, when they caught they from those old bass boats. That were jumped up Jon boats mostly, or a lot like modern-day kayaks to be fair.
As a person during my stupid/learning/broke stage of fishing with Walmart kayaks almost drowning and battling hypothermia to now having a legit pedal drive kayak my self, you still give my anxiety the way you lean on the secondaries of that thing 🫣😂