When it comes to purchasing a product off of the shelf, many of us do not give much thought to what really goes into getting it onto the shelf in the first place. We at KayakFishingClassicS recently had the chance to be involved in the process of testing prototype paddles for Bending Branches.  I suggested that we also have some of the top kayak anglers on the Gulf Coast take a look. The good people at Bending Branches liked that idea, and we moved forward.

After receiving it from the shipper, the first impression I had of the Bending Branches “Navigator” paddle was that I would probably hang it up on wall rather than use it. It has beautiful black willow blades and a checkered carbon shaft, and is absolutely beautiful. It spent a few days in my living room while I fawned over it, until my wife told me to do something with it. After my feeble attempts to convince her that this was a work of art and not a paddle, I finally decided to put it to its intended use.

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A few weeks ago I got to take a kayak fishing trip with a couple of friends, Geno and Jamie N.  We met at Canoe KY in Frankfort and shuttled over to our put-in.  It was then that I realized there wouldn't be much fishing accomplished that day, man was that water moving fast!  We still had a great trip, just being outside, on the water, in spite of the temperature being just slightly above freezing.