Thanks!

No, sharks in general can't see colors very well.

@@jericoba It's about contrast. Shark eyes have a reflective, double exposure film. In blue water, yellow is a very high-contrast color. Most sharks prey have a belly or scales of high-contrast.

@@MDK3192 Yes, so it's _not_ about the color yellow. It's about the choice of bright color that _can_ create more contrast. If you meant that originally, then it was unclear and I wanted to correct you.

@@jericoba look up "yum-yum yellow"

@@MDK3192 I know the popular topic, and it’s incorrect by biologists that the color hue is significant due to its wavelength. You said it, it’s the contrast, which is not bound to yellow.

That would be easier than actually scaling the uku yeah? Scaling it is the hardest thing about cleaning uku. It fillets pretty well after that.

Was too calm I guess, no predators, only the opelu. Absolutely beautiful day though.

I'm still fishing off the Trident Ultra 4.3 with a Bixpy motor and loving it. Too bad Ocean Kayak stopped making the entire Trident line.

It would have been nice to load up on the daytime opelu since I often can't catch 'em. This was my best catch of them and I ended up with less than 8 total. The leftovers were frozen to be used later.

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A lot of people paddle kayaks in the ocean. If you mean fishing in kayak, well, slightly more risky but a shark attack is still rare.

It can work, unless the shark is attacking with force, it won't help pushing it off, but you should always do what you can to be a struggling and inconvenient meal. It might give up.

Tiger.

Damage to the kayak and paddle was very minimal. This video goes over the extent of damage: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6SofKdths9kfZY

No, sharks in general can't see colors very well.

It's not the color of the object, but the contrast against others in certain situations.

Even though I came out of my encounter with the tiger shark unscathed, seeing a great white that big circle me would very much freak me out. But I think and hope that, if a large shark is taking its time to sniff out a kayak, it's not gonna then attack it.

@@sharaguchi1 Agreed. I would probably start screaming and concurrently making my peace. There has been several other incidents up there in the past couple years. There was a group of 3 kayakers that had the same thing happen, where dude responded how I would and started just shouting obscenities. A solo kayaker actually had a big white shark bite into his kayak and punch a couple holes in it. I suspect it did the same thing the tiger did to you and went for his catch bag but due to the size of it, the holes led to him capsizing and going in the very cold water. Some fisherman nearby responded quickly and pulled him out. Then a surfer got bit in an undoubtedly mistaken identity situation and needed 100 staples. I see a lot of people hating on here about doing what you enjoy and I don't think they get it. As someone that has spent years on the ocean, first in the Navy then through a series of my own sailboats, it's all a calculated risk. We're simply visitors, and a lot of people don't realize that the moment we're out there we are no longer at the tippy top of the food chain (especially in the open ocean). Won't stop me from doing what I love to do. Glad you came out unscathed from your once in a lifetime experience.

@@ericlane8077 Years ago a kayaker had his kayak bitten and punctured by a great white off Oahu also and he barely made it back to shore in his leaky kayak. And yes, the amount of hateful comments by uneducated people has been shocking. Shark attacks are mathematically so rare, especially attacks on kayak fishers. There are so many activities well all participate in, like driving our cars, that are far more dangerous than offshore kayaking. Thank you for your educated and thoughtful responses!

@@sharaguchi1 you're welcome! Keep doing what you do. I'd rather go out doing what I love. And if a shark attack ended my existence out on the ocean, I'd probably just accept it as preordained given the astronomically impossible probability of such an event happening. When I get closer to retirement, I've also told myself I'd finally man up and solo sail from Southern California to Hawaii. It's such a beautiful place, bordering on magical. It's been two decades since I've been there. Definitely envious it's your normal stomping grounds. Stay up!

@@ericlane8077 You may want to venture over to Hawaii sooner rather than later. Sadly, Hawaii is going the way SoCal has with too liberal a protection of the houseless who have become very brazen in their thefts and occasional assaults. There are more houseless in Hawaii per capita than any other state, I believe.