My wife and I are up in Canada and went and kayaked down this river called La Riviere Rouge and we had such a great time. I caught 3 really nice small mouthies and almost had a pike in the net until it broke off my line (added a leader after that). On the last stretch, my wife was in front of me and there were two paths we could take leading to the same spot. She went right and was about 100 yards in front of me. She got stuck (shallow water) and said not to come this way. I had a live bait on my line and was just riding the current. I went left as to not get stuck and turned out the current got super quick and the path was so narrow I couldn't make the turn. I got thrust into a bunch of downed tree branches and then water came pouring in the kayak. I flipped over and lost my phone, my rod and a tackle box with some nice lures. I'm pretty distraught knowing that if I had cut my line and wasn't worried about the bait fish following behind me, I may have been more present with the current and navigating the kayak. Now I feel even worse for the stuff that I lost that's in the river and might hurt someone or effect the ecosystem. I'm slowly getting over it, but it was a rough end to what was a fantastic day. I also put this weird pressure on myself to be a "man" when it comes to most things in life and so beat myself with the toxic thought that a real man wouldn't have capsized. I know there's nothing productive about that thought process. Anyways. I loved kayak fishing and will definitely be doing more in the future.
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No offense intended OP if this is a genuine post, but it reads like some sort of chatGPT conglomeration.