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.
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, or haven’t visited YakAngler.com or KayakFishingRadio, you should have heard about the “Chokoloskee Boondoggle”.
When people around here think of Pine Island Sound they think of crystal clear flats, big fish and high powered inshore boats. When I think of the sound what comes to mind isn’t high powered outboards but instead I think of silently paddling up to a school of tailing redfish.
The IFA kayak Fishing Championship presented by Hobie will be making its way to Chalmette, LA this weekend.These events have been held at multiple locations across the country and have drawn kayak anglers from all over. To participate in this event please see the details below.
Starting January1st of 2011 the IGFA began accepting applications for new All-Tackle Length Records. This catch photo and release format is perfectly suited for us kayak anglers and hopefully we will see kayak fishing angler's leading in the records for the length category.
The Irishwaterdogs Invitational was a great event again in 2011.The IWDI is an annual kayak fishing tournament held in Jacksonville, Florida each October. The goal for this event was to bring together anglers, paddlers, vendors and local charities to help raise money for the Cleft Palate clinic of Jacksonville, FL.
After a great season of kayak fishing the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour will host its final regular season event in Ruskin, Florida. You've seen many of the tournament recaps here on YakAngler and we are looking forward to seeing the tournmament results for this final event. This is a great program that is helping to grow the sport of kayak fishing in a huge way and we are happy to be able to spread the word with other kayak anglers.
So many of us kayak anglers got into kayak fishing and started researching the sport and other nuts out there doing the same thing that we were. Well it doesn’t take long after a few minutes of Google searches to come across Kayak Kevin Whitley.