Gear Tie Down Tip

by Eric Atkins | Sep 14, 2017 | Fishing, Instructional

Here is a quick and inexpensive tip to keeping your rods and paddles sorted during your fishing trips. I use Nite-ize Gear Ties to keep my rods separated from other fishing rods. These rubber-coated wires are easy to twist and tie around the rods, paddle shafts, and...

Heroes on the Water North Alabama

by Eric Atkins | Aug 2, 2017 | Coosa HD, Event Coverage, Events, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Tournaments

Here in Alabama we have a new Heroes of the Water (HOW) chapter known as HOW North Alabama.  Their first kayak fishing event was held a couple of months ago on Lake Guntersville and it was an overwhelming success.  We had dozens of volunteers, a few...

Pro Tip: Kayak Cart Positioning

by Eric Atkins | Mar 8, 2017 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Instructional, Rigging, Video

Remember in elementary school when a much larger kid got on the opposite side of the teeter totter? Some of us got a literal “crash” course in physics when that happened. Your kayak cart is a simple machine and it becomes a fulcrum when you place your...

Video: Smalltown Smallmouth

by Eric Atkins | Feb 15, 2017 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Video

Fellow JK teammate Evan Howard, Dobyns Rods Pro Corey Galloway, and I hit the road in May of 2016 to fish for big smallmouth with big swimbaits and small flies. The fishing has been better at this location, but we all three ended up sticking solid smallmouth on the...

My First Musky Hunt

by Eric Atkins | Jan 20, 2017 | Cuda HD, Fishing, Lure reviews, Rigging

(rigging our kayaks at the launch) My first musky fishing trip resulted in my fellow unnamed anglers and I catching no musky. Apparently, that is just something you have to get used to when you go musky fishing in creeks and rivers. This day, the four of us hit a...

Alabama is Ready For a Great Kayak Fishing Season

by Eric Atkins | Jan 17, 2017 | Coosa HD, Event Coverage, Events, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Tournaments

There is a new kayak fishing tournament and a new resource for kayak anglers in the state of Alabama. As with most of the rest of the United States, fishing from a kayak is only getting more and more popular in Alabama. With ten active kayak fishing clubs in the...