Homemade kayak handline fishing reel. Mackerel catch and cook

Kayak fishing in Ireland. I make a DIY kayak sea fishing hand line, using simple tools, which I can carry in the pocket of my buoyancy aid. If you have ever wondered about hand line fishing from a kayak watch on. I test it out by catching some Atlantic mackerel and cooking them on the beach. A hand line might be dangerous if you have very large powerful fish in your area.

[@sooziewho]

What a cracking day off! Fresh mackerel YUM. Lovely to see the coastline and enjoyed the music too. Great video.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Many many thanks!

[@82HEADCASE]

Wow what a great video vinnie👏👏👏 Love the diy hand line the boat and the family involvement and not forgotten the music ...top class .

[@Hoonozit]

Well done, both the video and the fishing device. Thanks for the beautiful scenery footage.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you for dropping by!

[@santoshayogacork7783]

Great video Vinnie! Thanks for going into such detail, going to give the hand line a shot this weekend!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Hi and thank you very much. I only spotted this now. KZbin seems to have stopped notifying me when I get comments

[@ejames6431]

I enjoy watching your channel very much here in America. 🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I am happy to hear that. Greetings from Ireland.

[@RobertoDonatti]

Nice video and lovely music

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you very much Roberto!

[@MrOtterdude]

Super video! Very enchanting coastline! You're back making videos, so I better get the lead out and finish up my arrow video, lol! I started messing with bicycles and didn't complete my final segments.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I have been waiting patiently Joe. There is a great book on the English longbow and ancient archery written by Rodger Ascham in 1545. The book is called Toxophilus. He says that ash wood makes the best war arrows. I was often tempted to split out some ash and whittle it down to arrows but never got off my behind to do it. Have you ever split out arrows like that?

[@MrOtterdude]

Vinnie- I just started back in on Toxophilus. I got it as a free download about a year ago. I've never split boards for arrows, but my favorite wild-growing shoot arrows are black ash. I also like red osier. In my video, I use red osier, as that was the choice of local Indian tribes.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Rodger. Am now waiting IMPATIENTLY!

[@MrOtterdude]

LOL! I have to get going on it!

[@mickeywilsonbushcraftandsu2513]

Good job my friend good craftsmanship buddy. Way to spank those mackerel. Nice video man keep em coming. It was good to see you again friend. All that has made me hungry lol.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you Mickey, it is usually me who is drooling at your videos

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Ah Vinnie! Fantastic video my friend, lovely bit of coastline you found yourself and those mackerel looked ever so tasty.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you my Turbo powered friend :-)

[@BASHADweller]

Nice one Vinnie, that worked a treat! Some stunning coastline you have their and a very talented daughter and niece, very impressive musicians. Mackerel is my favourite fish, interesting way of cooking them. I'll have to give that a try sometime. Thanks for sharing, for a cursed video it came out very well. Atb Shaun

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you Shaun, The girls say thank you very much too! The stress levels were high let me tell you. Some of the KZbin techniques for getting audio on water don't work, let me tell you!

[@edverdoold]

Very nice video and handline tool👍🏻

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you very much 🙂

[@fadingmargins]

A treat at the end with the mention of Malcolm Douglas (one of my childhood heroes) and some proper cooking. I was relieved to see a bed of coals and not the usual nonsense of waving the fish on a stick over live flames. To this day the best fish I have ever had was a river catfish cooked this way by my Aboriginal Aunt Ruthie. Mind you she didn't gut it - you ate it off the bone on the coals while the second side was cooking. Great stuff Vinnie!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I have spent hours watching Malcolm. The first time I saw him he whipped out a spear and woomera and speared a mullet. Lets just say I was hooked. I was sad when he was killed. Coals are the only way to cook. Thanks for watching 👍

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I am starting to think I would like to sit down with you and have a good chat over a few pints of Guinness!

[@fadingmargins]

You want to check out Jack Absalom and Les Hiddens as well - all true bushmen.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

@@fadingmargins I like Les Hiddens very much. I never heard of Jack Absalom. I will enjoy finding out about him. They are old school, nowadays we have Bear Grills running across boulders and drinking pee. I think humans have reached the peak of evolution and are now slipping backwards.....Fast!

[@WildIrishSoul]

Great stuff Vinny , really enjoyed that, fiddle sticks golly gosh is right 🤣 I know the feeling , great video and your daughter is gifted too 👍😁

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I've only seen your comment now, my apologies. I have subscribed and I'm looking forward to watching your videos

[@WildIrishSoul]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 No bother Vinny , Thanks a mil for that 😃👍 I must jump back on your page too

[@irishwanderer4206]

Ahh jaysis me ould helvick many a bass brought home out of there and many a cold night spent up on that pier mackerel fishing I used to live there for years jaysis was lovely to see you must be very local vinny

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Its an hour and a half or so away from me but it's the closest coast for me. I love the sea.

[@garygag739]

What a beautiful place that you live vinnie it's absolutely stunning and that was a lovely bit of music that your daughter played what instrument is she playing. Thanks for another great video and take care my friend. 👍👍👍.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

The first tune was a polka and Aoife played the tin whistle while my niece played the fiddle. The second tune was a slow air and Aoife played the tin whistle again

[@hackneeey]

Great film as usual Vinnie,the kayak looks good fun ,can’t beat a bit of fresh fish I’m going to try that next time I’m out provided I catch anything! Done with steak once didn’t occur to me to try fish...take care all the best Mick

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Many thanks Mick and many thanks for watching. How did the steak turn out?

[@hackneeey]

vinniesdayoff It was grand ,a bit crunchy as it was dark so didn’t see all the cinders...but I’d recommend it

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Are you sure you are not Mick Dundee? :-)

[@hackneeey]

vinniesdayoff Ha ,not by a long mile! You’re a far better outdoors man than I’ll ever be !

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I don't know whether I am a trier or a chancer. God loves a trier but he hates a chancer!

[@82HEADCASE]

Vinnie a great video!! For me a hand line makes way more since than waving fishing rods about and u can pack a few hand lines..great simple set up there!! Good man👍

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thanks Tom. Is there any vermin left up your way?

[@82HEADCASE]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 lol vinnie you will have to call and finish them off lol....I'm teasing back on the vermin a bit it consumes way to much of my time ..I'd like to try other things Iv being doing a bit more kayaking I'm getting the kids involved aswell .. we are blessed to be close to the coast!!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

@@82HEADCASE I had two double kayaks when mine were small Tom. Some of my happiest memories I have of the kids are the days we spent on the beach kayaking.

[@82HEADCASE]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 I have just bought a dubble in the last few weeks and the kids love going for a paddle esp near the shore line in the surf.. it's a very handy tool to have at the beach as there is only so many sand castles they can build lol.... Looking forward to many memorable trips .. Do u use any other platforms besides youtube messanger ... Twitter ??

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

@@82HEADCASE No Tom. I'm from the stone age. Only KZbin.

[@Seancmccormick]

We call Mackeral the poor man's Salmon. It sure does taste good fresh though! Great video sir! Atb Sean

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thanks Sean. Well, I am not a wealthy man so it's mackerel for me! I actually love some mackerel every now and again. Thank you very much for watching.

[@irishwanderer4206]

ah yes now i see the handiness in that little workmate

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

You use it for all sorts of jobs. I have that donkeys years and I wouldn't be without one

[@FishinNStuff]

Nice DIY my friend nice kayak too. My daughter played the Flute never thought of getting her to play for me. Most be nice to have a camera man lol great video brother

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thanks very much for watching Fishin, much appreciated.

[@irishwanderer4206]

While looking at this video a great idea sparked to mind if ya had a lathe and a 4mm steel rod you could turn a spool put the rod through the middle of your handline wood thing and have a bit of the rod stuck out one side to take a handle kind of like a reel system. Too hard explain but it would work

[@irishwanderer4206]

Tell your daughter to do the lonesome boatman tis a lovely tune

[@JH_1095]

I just got back from the Eastern coast of Virginia.. That hand line would have been ideal... No pocketknives but i enjoyed the video never the less... lol 👍

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Virginia sounds good JC. I actually found the perfect use for Rough Rider knives. They are highly rust resistant so are excellent for kayak or indeed any sea fisherman. I did not get around to mentioning it in the video. Thank you for watching, I appreciate it.

[@JH_1095]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 i will have to throw my one Rough Rider in the fishing box 👍

[@irishwanderer4206]

My step grandad and meself made one of those they work great.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I love the bit of hand line fishing!

[@thornwarbler]

What a cracking video complimented by your daughters music, forgive my ignorance but what instrument is she playing. Top marks for the video all the best mate

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thanks very much. She is playing a John Sindt tin whistle in the key of d. It sounds a little bit different from the normal tin whistle.

[@wavepropulsion1]

Beatiful sea and shores wich had seen so brave sailors and fishermen in history. Nice kayak brother, but I wish one day you do a currach out of branches in the woods and a piece of canvas with one of your folders (no forget the blessed water by S.Brendan in the bow). You will do a nice paddle or bulls too, so you can sail with your doggie. Greetings from Uruguay. And mackarel is my favorite fish.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Hello my friend. There was always a large currach in that harbour and I looked for it to show it to you but it was not there. It was the largest one I have seen. The old currachs were made with wicker so I suppose it could be done but I need an experienced sailor to help. We could have a partnership?

[@wavepropulsion1]

I wish Vinnie, if possible. The big one must be built for the Cork regatta, I seen some are small but in Belfast did one huge as many others. Some got some recent fame, one bigger than Severin's Brendan, at around 12 meters long.

[@wavepropulsion1]

There is one or two vídeos showing the original Aran builders, vídeos form the 50's, I remember one was uploaded by the grandson. There is another vídeo showing old times coracle building with branches and in the web is a free download pdf about too, with several real plans.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I think you have been bitten by the bug!

[@wavepropulsion1]

Absolutelly hahahahahaha. And my background from neolithic times still related to the Eriu Tuatha Ta Danam and the basques, probably the first britannos too. The skin boat reached the actual America much before anyone else. I'm ethnic armenian.

[@chrisosh9574]

Beautiful coast, beautiful music and the fish looked pretty good too. I am jealous, I have just given my kayak away as I have moved inland on the mainland from Ibiza and thought there was nowhere close to kayak, it turns out there are two or three dams that don't show up on Google earth for some reason. What is the kayak you have there? It looks very stable and a nice design. Good to see you getting a day off.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Hi Chris, and thank you so much. You will have to reinvest some of the profits! The kayak is the RTM Tempo. It is supposed to be the fastest plastic sit on top kayak. It is fairly stable but maybe not super stable. It is a strange kayak. Sometimes it feels a bit tippy but when I have been in rough surf etc it felt stable.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I meant to say sit on top Chris. I have an old Ocean Kayak prowler 13.5 and it is very stable. Not the fastest kayak but you still get around

[@chrisosh9574]

Ah! RTM are good, mine was the RTM Disco sea kayak, that was tippy being very narrow. So that I could use it in a choppy sea, I made a pair of outriggers on the end of a reinforced 40mm x 1.5 metre PVC waste pipe, the floats were made from several layers of the blue Dow building insulation foam glued together and fibre glassed. They worked pretty well, the Tempo is a lot more stable and what I would probably go for if I get another. I like sit ons as they are a lot easier to deal with if they go over, you just have to make sure everything is attached in some way. If you ever fancy making outriggers, I think I have the patterns somewhere.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I never paddled a Disco but the reviews say they are a bit tippy. I am not really a fan of tippy.

[@chrisosh9574]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 I have only been dumped out when trying to surf but I deliberately baled a couple of times to see what getting back on was like after reading reviews. Not that easy in a choppy sea. I made a vynil bag for a counter weight for the other end of the paddle and a rope stirrup for my end. Tie tha paddle across and getting in is easy but not fast. With the outriggers its stable anyway. Luckily I never needed the bag.

[@susanp.collins7834]

Very sensible - no sharp corners to catch on the edges of the pocket!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you

[@paulscountry456]

Those fish are good for heart health.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

They are indeed Paul and tasty too!

[@handyoutdoors2938]

Grate idea bud just subbed love your trapping vids 🖐🖐

[@Pillar2post]

great vid vin . lovley footage and beautiful country . im eagerly awaiting another episode . whats the avg water temp where u were there

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Thank you my friend. Average water temp in the Summer is around 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) It is probably higher this year because we had a great Summer. I had big problems trying to get audio, I have not solved this problem like you have.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

It can be very beautiful when the sun shines, not so great in the rain and drizzle!

[@Pillar2post]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 . It took me quite a while to get audio to work . I ended up using a cell phone to record and plug in a headset as a microphone. I used a plastic container to make a GoPro type case for the phone to keep it dry

[@Pillar2post]

And 15degrees is hella cold bro . Our avg water temp here is prob around 28 celcius year round

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I had a voice recorder in a zip loc bag sealed with silicone with a mike coming out of it. I had it inside my pfd and the movement kept turning it on and off

[@irishwanderer4206]

At 12 minutes if you look at the land behind you go around the back of the head you get nice pollack and mackerel say ur heading for Ardmore out that way.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Fishing was not too bad this year but I found fish very scarce in the last two or three years

[@irishwanderer4206]

I used to work on the oyster farm on the cónigear

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Is that there between Helvick and Dungarvan?

[@blueeyeswhitedragon9839]

Thanks Vinnie, and the same to your entire family. Your wife's & daughter's music will last forever, now that we have it imortalized on the internet.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

You have discovered my master plan Richard! Well maybe not the master plan but some of the places I have shown and even some of the trees that were in the background of my videos are old childhood friends. Of course I am so proud of my family too.

[@T37912]

Thank you Vinnie for yet another instructional video. Question, does your back not hurt when you'te sitting like that ? It looks uncomfortable and a bit painful. Kind regards Alain

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Hi Alain. No it does not hurt my back. Perhaps it is not obvious in the video but I have a pretty good back rest to lean against. It does get uncomfortable on your rear end if you spend more than two hours or so sitting in the kayak 😢😢

[@T37912]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 thanks for the explanarion and no, it is not clear from the video (at least not to me, a layman in kayaking stuff). Alain

[@danepanaligan829]

What kind of line did you use before adding on the test line ?

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Hi. I used braided tarred bankline as the main line. I changed the 30lb monofilament for 100 lb mono for ease of handling. Hope that helps

[@irishwanderer4206]

Good job though lad

[@irishwanderer4206]

If you go off the rocks in helvick on low water your sure of a bass down in front of the toilets at the car park.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

For real?

[@irishwanderer4206]

yep no joke i fished there with henry gilbey before, he showed me a few tips was pulling them in for sport after that. there is a big rock out in front of you, the pier on your left cast out in front of the rock on a low tide preferably at night but day is fine and you're sure a bang, lovely fish... i mean lovely, good catch and eating id be more of a sea fisherman than river lived in laois most me life then dungarvan ring up to old parish and then to waterford now im below in kilmacthomas.

[@irishwanderer4206]

If i told u there's a fella shooting them seals what would ya think.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

I lived near Tramore and I know all about it.

[@irishwanderer4206]

@@vinniesdayoff3968 German fella by the name of Thomas lives in ring seen him at it before he didn't see me I reported him straight away tis bad form

[@irishwanderer4206]

Trawling haha sorry I had too..