Kayak fishing has it’s draw-backs too!  Unfortunately it is a very ‘personal’ way of fishing, unless you have a tandem kayak (only two people) or have a flotilla of kayaks and a rig to haul them all over the place. Throughout the summer one of my twin daughters -Abby- kept on asking me to take her…

For those of you that know me, you know how much I love tandem kayaking. This summer was especially great as I was able to show my 4 year old an introduction to whitewater kayaking from the front seat of a Jackson Kayak Dynamic Duo. We started slow, on class 1 without a sprayskirt. It…

This morning I watched a viral video of 8 girls on their cell phones during a baseball game.  It was one of many reminders that our battle, as parents, against the digital age is ongoing and that we should never relax our efforts to get our kids out of the house, away from the iStuff…

Plenty of us know the feeling. You’ve been working all week, sometimes pulling extra shifts, and your one day off is coming up. All you can think about is getting the kayak in the water, and getting fish in the kayak! And then somehow, inevitably, something gets in the way. Whether it’s a doctors appointment, errands,…

Sometimes life really doesn’t go your way.  I’m not talking about hitting every red light on your drive home from work.  I mean something insurmountable where you manage to overcome one hill only to find a mountain range ahead that lunges out of the earth with each successive peak growing infinitely taller into the…

  A few years ago I wrote a blog post asking “Does Size Matter?” that explored what it means to be a smaller paddler finding gear that fits and what led me to paddle the Little Hero. I wanted to re-share some of my experiences here, as I still hear a lot of smaller paddlers who…

My Dad recently bought his first kayak and wants to get more into kayak fishing. Growing up he fished mostly for crappie and never really claimed to be a great bass fisherman. I on the other hand am all about that Bass and rarely ever fish for anything but Largemouth and Smallmouth. So when I…

Europe’s oldest Kayak Angler Rolf – a mere 72 years young – is preparing to participate in the  ‘Kayak Fishing Open’ in Karlskrona, Sweden  in about nine weeks. That is why he is currently spending every spare minute with his COOSA on the water to train for the event. This week Rolf has been testing the Shimano Vengeance Sea…

I recently had the opportunity to share my passion for kayaks with a large group of kids. Around 40 boys and girls, ages 6-12, attended an ‘outdoor day’ for kids held at a local church. I was asked to bring a kayak so that the kids could see how much fun kayaking can be. Needless…

It’s been over five years since we last took my grandfather kayaking.   My grandpa has ran a Class II/III section on the Main Payette numerous times over the last couple decades but the last time I remember being on the river with him was six or seven years ago when we ran the river…