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How to Fish From a Kayak or Canoe
March 21, 2012
Sundown Sessions; Nighttime Kayak Fishing
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Want to get out on your kayak more often but too busy making a living during the day? Can't get out on the weekends due to chores and catching up?
No worries.
Instead of sobbing on the couch about how bad your workday was, load your kayak, bring a rod and get out for a sundown session. Just because the sun is going down and light is limited on the water doesn't mean you're restricted from chasing fish.
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May 02, 2011
Ouch! Fishing Local
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I just filled up my truck and the tab was $83, OUCH! I’m in New Jersey which traditionally has some of the lowest gas prices in the country too. Most places it would have been a C note and before long it will here too. I don’t know about you but it’s affecting how I’m going to approach my fishing days; both where and how I go. I’m sure I’m not alone either. The other day I considered going to Raritan Bay. Reports have… Read More
October 04, 2010
Kayak Fishing for Albies
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Jon's reports and articles are primarily based in the Northeast, but the guy's fished all over the world in Kayaks. He's the guy that wrote the book about Kayak Fishing, and we're not kidding when we say so.
One of my favorite fish species are what we call here in the northeast, albies. In the south they call them bonito, but here we also get true bonito. Albies are also called little tunny and fat alberts. They are… Read More
October 01, 2010
Fluke - a Very Civilized Fish
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In the northeast we call them fluke but from southern NJ south they’re known as flounder. Another name here is summer flounder, that’s because we also have true flounder. Using a kayak to go fluke fishing is about as easy as it can get. I have to admit I hadn’t done much of it and most of my fluking was via party boats out of Montauk or rental skiff also on the east end of Long Island. Lots of the local kayak guys would… Read More
September 28, 2010
The Birth of an online fishing resource
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From the Publisher: Our friend Jon's next book is about fishing of a different kind, but for now the author of Kayak Fishing is a welcome addition to the incredible talent we seem to be attracting. This article from Shein is about the birth of the nation's leading online kayak fishing resource. And it ain't TheOnlineFisherman.com. But if we're going to tell you about resources, we can't hide the best you might find if we… Read More
September 26, 2010
Kayak Fishing; Don't Let It Pass You By!!
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Backwater fishing has taken a new twist for some of my most hard core," I would never fish out of a kayak" clients!! Some of the most intense fisherman I know now have a new outlook on kayak fishing` For years I have fished out of my kayaks, not because I had to but because I love to!
My 22 ft center counsel sat in my driveway as I loaded my kayak into the back of my truck! Yes that's right, a professional guide with… Read More
September 26, 2010
Quick Pine Island Visit
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This week I finally made it up to kayak and fish Pine Island, Florida for one day. It’s another place in Florida I like to visit a couple of times a year along with Matlacha which is by Pine Island. It’s still kind of rural and has a great fishery. It’s very different from the Everglades in one way that there are miles of grass flats to fish which the Western Everglades lack and you approach it a bit different when… Read More
September 02, 2010
Series Leader Captures Third to Hold Lead
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It's cool to see one of our own really slamming the tournament circuit in the area -- and doing it in Kayak Tournaments. Derick is an excellent fisherman and contributor to our site and to our fishing community. He's helpful and always willing to share his extensive and growing knowledge of the most rapidly expanding sub-category of our popular sport :)
Derick Burgos, the Kayak Fishing ClassicS Series Leader, hooked… Read More
July 26, 2010
Meet My Special Friend
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I’d like to introduce all my fishing brethren here at TOF to a dear old friend of mine. We first met sometime in the 70s when I was a member of a couple of outdoor book clubs. We haven’t always been in touch but when we renew our friendship, it’s like we were never apart except that I’m always learning something new. We most often get together when I have a dentist/doctor’s appointment and I know I’ll be sitting around… Read More
July 20, 2010
Let the Game Begin
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Let the Game Begin… A bit of a funny and extreme way to look at it but having a successful day of catching fish will usually involve getting some education and doing a little research about the area you are going to fish and especially when visiting new places. I see it so often, fisherman talking that they were skunked or that the fishing is terrible because of this or that. Sometimes there is a legitimate excuse but… Read More
July 08, 2010
Sally's First Snook
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After I sold my kayak fishing business it was time to get back to completing the book I had started in 2003. I figured why spend a winter in NJ when I had an invite to do some guiding in the Everglades instead. It wasn’t a hard decision. Charles had made me an offer. He said if I got my Captain’s license he’d add another Mothership and I could run it. So I got my license, he added the boat, but also expanded too much… Read More
June 13, 2010
Goodland
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There’s a local saying that when the bugs are the worst the fishing is the best. Today was very promising launching up in Goodland early this morning, the no-seeums were brutal getting the kayak unloaded and ready to launch.
I launched at sunrise and headed out to some back bays to fish a slow incoming tide. When I arrived the water was totally muddy and maybe only six to at the most twelve inches deep, but the fish… Read More
June 03, 2010
A Step Back in Time - Cuttyhunk
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Mike, also known as Fisheye, is an underwater videographer and wanted to hook up with me and take some pics. So we arranged to get together one day. Mike had been out snorkeling and said there weren’t many fish around but had discovered a school of fish tight to the cliffs in the second cove down the shore. Woody and I were on the water and as we approached the cove there was a charter boat casting into the cove. I… Read More
June 03, 2010
When Florida’s Freezing, Go Warm
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Warm water that is, but I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. I was contacted by Captain Pat Horrigan about a tournament series he was starting. My brother in law, Paul, wanted to take a fishing vacation and I wanted to get some fishing in too. The tournament was in the Tampa Bay area and I was familiar with a guide there, Jason Stock, who often competed and he submitted reports to us at KFM. So I gave Jason a call and… Read More
June 03, 2010
Spring Blues in New Jersey
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Each spring the blues show up and take over the inside waters of the New York metro area in force for a couple weeks. It always happens but you can’t be sure of when they’ll arrive and when it stops. One of my favorite things is to introduce people to this fishery, via kayak, for the first time. It’s a lot like fishing in a lake except you catch a lot more fish. When I first started doing this fishing the blues were… Read More
June 02, 2010
Choosing the Right Kayak for Kayak Fishing
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One of the most successful ways to fish on the flats is to be on a kayak. Not only is it very stealthy but next to wading you can get to places that boaters can only dream of. With that said, being a more skilled angler will be the outcome.
In selecting a kayak, I suggest that you try many different styles before you make your choice. Ones’ taste or fishing needs may be very different from the others. Many paddling… Read More
May 30, 2010
My Real Everglades
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When you talk about fishing in the Everglades most will think or refer to it as fishing world renown places like Cape Sable, Lostmans River, and Gopher Creek, etc. When you watch the TV shows with the “Rock Star” guides when fishing the Everglades these are some of the areas a lot of them are fishing. The fishing can be phenomenal and there is no doubt it is a great experience to fish and see these areas. With saying… Read More
May 28, 2010
Remote Alaska
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I had only fished Alaska once and that was in June of ’83. Now I was going to spend two weeks kayak fishing in late July ’08. Troy and Allen had arranged the trip and the highlight of the first week was going to be staying in a remote forest service cabin on Montague Island in Prince William Sound. The Mothership dropped us off at Port Chalmers (the name of the bay and cabin) with all our gear. We were 70 miles from… Read More
May 24, 2010
Maine Smallmouths
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If you’re a bass fishermen and you’ve had an opportunity to catch smallmouths then I don’t have to explain why when my buddy Mike told me they were regularly catching five pounders, he had my attention. Turns out Mike and his brother had been fishing the Penobscot River in Maine. They liked the Lincoln area and go each fall. I decided to join them in the fall of 2008 and I’m sure glad I did.
Hurricane Hugo was moving up… Read More
May 22, 2010
Kayak Fishing for Bull Sharks in the Everglades
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When we first started this magazine, two guys named Jon Shein and Joey Cambria helped a lot. They had started a kayak fishing magazine that's become one of the world's leading kayak fishing sites. We thank those guys a lot for the help they gave us when we were a newcomer, and this story is one that Jon shared with me long ago. It's about catching bull shark from a kayak in our own Everglades.
Jon told me about him and… Read More
May 22, 2010
Bluefin from the Kayak
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It all started in winter when I decided it was time to give bluefin tuna a shot from the kayak. The fishery has been broadening out with fish in numerous size classes. Cape Cod bay has seen an influx of them in recent years. I didn’t make it up to Cape Cod and one day I got a call from Joey. Danny found a captain who was interested in exploring kayak fishing for tuna in New Jersey. Turns out Rich, the captain, was… Read More
May 11, 2010
The Ultimate Seat Cushion for a Kayak
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I first started using a cushion in the early days of my becoming a kayak fisherman. I remember a post somewhere of an angler who started using an air pillow as a butt pad. I tried one and was hooked. Since then a number of companies have offered a variety of cushions. Some use gel, while others used foam, air or a combination of both. The latter are my favorites but there’s one thing they all seemed to have in common.… Read More
May 11, 2010
Internal Pulley System
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Have you ever put some items in the center hatch of your kayak and when you went to retrieve them on the water you couldn’t reach them? It’s happened to all of us. Items shift and if we can’t get to them while on the water. When this happens on the open water it’s like you never brought them along. There is a very simple solution. Set up a system that’ll cure the problem. I call it an internal pulley system. It’s… Read More
May 11, 2010
G-Flex Epoxy
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I first learned about West Systems G-Flex from Chris, the owner of Saltwatersports, a Naples kayak shop. Upon returning to Florida for the 2007/2008 winter season I stopped in the shop on my first shopping trip to Naples. Chris filled me in what was happening with the shop and then asked if I knew about G-Flex yet. I hadn’t. I am always tinkering with kayaks and other stuff and what excited me was here was an epoxy… Read More
May 11, 2010
Malone Foam Stacker Blocks
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When transporting several kayaks on the roof of a vehicle it becomes necessary to stack them vertically. This results in a couple problems. It isn’t easy getting the kayaks to stay in place. On my 78” wide bars I can carry 6 kayaks using a stacker and I have. However it’s difficult to load them and have them stay in place while I strap them. The other issue I have is the hard bar on the side of the kayak will dent it.… Read More
May 09, 2010
The Fish Grip
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There are a myriad of lip gripping devices on the market to help you handle fish. Most function as the name implies by gripping the lip of the fish. America’s most popular gamefish the largemouth bass comes with a built in handle of sorts. Grip its lip with your thumb and forefinger and the bass is subdued. This works for all members of the bass family including its larger cousin the striped bass. However there are… Read More
May 09, 2010
The Next Wave in Kayak Fishing Kayaks
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Kayak fishing is an evolving sport. The first quantum leap was the use of plastic as a hull material. The next leap was the Sit on Top (SOT) kayak. After that came better designs and then pedal drives. I don’t know if it will be the last leap but the next big thing is going to be the electric kayak (EK). Using an electric motor to propel a kayak isn’t anything new. Over a decade ago Cobra added a motor mount that… Read More
May 09, 2010
Bonefish by Kayak
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We got the two tandem kayaks in the water. Even though we had four kayaks back at our rental villa, we were only able to get two on the roof of the rental van. Even two was a bit of a challenge and four was out of the question. Scott and I paddled to a point we had nicknamed Barracuda Point, the previous day. That’s because we had spotted a four foot cuda there the day before while doing reconnaissance. Joey and Terry… Read More
May 09, 2010
Laguna Madre Reds
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Jim had asked if I would be interested in helping out at a Heroes on the Water enclave they were going to have in Texas. I told Joey about it and he mentioned he had a couple days of fishing at Cast and Blast, in Arroyo City, down near the Mexican border. So we looked into flights and I decided to drive and make a road trip out of it. I could combine some other excursions into the trip. Besides my time at the enclave,… Read More
May 09, 2010
Baja 2004
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We had been catching a bunch of skipjack tuna and they were fun but the East Cape’s Sea of Cortez has much more to offer. Bill and Terry were off chasing schools of skippies but I decided to stay tight to our Mothership. Alonzo, the captain, started tossing live sardinas to see if he could raise some Dorado or Yellowfin. It isn’t easy to see well into the water while sitting in a kayak but I saw something big in the… Read More
May 09, 2010
Tube in Worm
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In June of 2002 Joey, Doug, Jim and me made a trip up to Cape Cod. We were looking at lures in a tackle shop there and we came upon the Tube and Worm (TnW). We discussed how it was one of the hottest big striped bass lures in New England and how we should try a smaller version from our kayaks but we didn’t take it any further.
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May 09, 2010
7th Annual Jamaica Bay Kayak Fishing Tournament (May 15th)
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It started as an idea. Joey felt it was important to start a tournament somewhere in the New York metro area to help promote kayak fishing. I knew it was a good idea but in May, when Joey was proposing to have the event, was our busiest time of year in the shop. I told Joey he’d have to take on most of the leg work and I’d pick up his end in the shop. Joey started looking at places to hold it and I said Jamaica Bay was… Read More
May 04, 2010
Getting Started Kayak Fishing
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This is another article coming into The Online Fisherman from what we -- and many people into the sport -- feel is the Internet's most valuable and popular kayak fishing resource; our friend Jon Shein and partner Joe Cambria's KayakFishingMagazine.net. The site -- rich with kayak fishing content, is the number one online resource for what's rapidly becoming a primary category of our beloved sport (speaking of which -- is… Read More
April 30, 2010
Kayaks and Content Experts
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In coming weeks and months, you're going to see the Kayak section of our increasingly popular online sports fishing magazine experience dramatic improvements in the level and quality of its content, its entertainment value, and (perhaps most importantly) its ability to educate you on the down-and-dirty how-tos of Yakking. We're about to see work coming from two of the most respected and competent publishers, writers, and… Read More
April 18, 2010
Major Rules Change for ClassicS
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New Sport Angler & Guides Divisions for the ClassicS.
In an effort to level the field for all of the contestants the Kayak Fishing ClassicS has made a major rules change. Contestants will now compete in either the Sport Angler Division for non pro's. The kayak fishing guides will compete in the Guides Division which is exclusively for kayak fishing guides.
Over the past several months the ClassicS has been holding… Read More
April 16, 2010
Homosassa Hazard Extreme Tarpon Classic
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The Kayak Fishing ClassicS is pleased to announce their next tournament. The Homosassa Hazard, Extreme Tarpon Classic is scheduled for May 21 & 22. The Host Sponsor is the famous Bayport Inn located at 4835 Cortez Blvd. In Weeki Wachee, Florida. The famous Bayport Inn has been serving great seafood and family meals for years and is well known along the Gulf Coastal area of Florida.
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