Suwannee Bass By Kayak | River Gems

by Jean Wilson | Dec 31, 2021 | Big Rig HD/FD, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Fishing Subjects, Freshwater, Freshwater Fishing, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner

Suwannee Bass by Kayak | River Gems By Jean Wilson Of all the black bass species found worldwide, the beautiful Suwannee bass has the smallest range and geographic distribution which just luckily happens to be in the rivers of my backyard. How fortunate to get to...

Big Bass Kayak Fishing

by Jean Wilson | Dec 20, 2020 | Coosa HD, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Freshwater Fishing, JAdventures Main Banner

Big Bass Kayak Fishing By Jean Wilson It was gearing up to be a great outdoor weekend of camping and kayak fishing for big bass with a friend on my backyard waters in the panhandle of Florida. Trophy sized catches were what we hopefully anticipated. Little did we know...

Kayak Fishing | Tips, Tricks, Hacks, DIY and Mods

by Jean Wilson | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured Post, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Freshwater, Instructional, JAdventures Main Banner

KAYAK FISHING: TIPS, TRICKS, HACKS, DIY AND MODS By: Jean Wilson Whether you’re new to kayak fishing or a seasoned pro, some of the most fun you’ll have is rigging out your boat and tinkering with ways to enhance your time on the water. Coming up with your own Kayak...

Kayak Fishing and The Great Outdoors: A Parent’s Influence

by Jean Wilson | Jun 22, 2020 | Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Freshwater Fishing, JAdventures Main Banner

During this time of year when we pay extra tribute to our mothers and fathers, my thoughts turn to the fond memories of my childhood and our various family fun activities. I also think about how these early experiences eventually brought me to discover my passion for...

Behind the Scenes Part II: Hooked on Wild Waters, Wild Panacea Waterfront

by Jean Wilson | Jun 3, 2019 | Fishing, Video

With the previous day’s fishing for bass on the beautiful St. Marks River under our belts the targets for this adventure with Hooked on Wild Waters with Drew Gregory were the redfish and trout of the Wakulla County, Florida coastline. I was honored to be Drew’s show...

Behind the Scenes Part I: Hooked on Wild Waters, St. Marks River

by Jean Wilson | May 23, 2019 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Video

I had the huge honor to be invited by Drew Gregory to be his show guest and to fish and be filmed with him for episodes of his “Hooked on Wild Waters”. The filming took place in early March, 2019 in my backyard of Wakulla County, in the panhandle of north Florida. The...

FLW Tour: Lake Seminole 2019

by Jean Wilson | May 10, 2019 | Event Coverage, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Tournaments

I had a blast representing Jackson Kayak the weekend of March 9-10, 2019 at the FLW Tour Event at Lake Seminole in Bainbridge, Georgia where JK founder, Eric “EJ” Jackson was competing. Jackson Kayak Fishing Team mate, Robert Brown of Huntsville, AL, who has worked...

Bienville Plantation Adventure: TENvitational/The TEN 2019

by Jean Wilson | May 3, 2019 | Coosa FD, Event Coverage, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Tournaments

My world opened up a little wider recently when I had the honor of an invitation from Chad Hoover of Kayak Bass Fishing to fish and film a show with him during the KBF Dee Zee TENvitational and The TEN 2019 tournaments at Bienville Plantation, Florida.The plan was to...

Chipola River: In Search of Shoal Bass

by Jean Wilson | Jan 13, 2019 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Kilroy

Last fall I had the golden opportunity to take an amazing kayak fishing float down a section of the beautiful Chipola River in Northwest Florida. It is incredibly scenic, biologically diverse and fed by 63 springs. I had been dying to kayak fish it since my first...

Kayak Angling Confidence: Confessions of a Scaredy-Cat Kid

by Jean Wilson | Dec 15, 2018 | Coosa HD, Fishing

I meet folks at the ramp when I’m launching or returning from a fishing trip in my Coosa HD and they often remark that they would be nervous to kayak fish and to go out adventuring on the water alone. “Aren’t you afraid of alligators?”, “Do you get scared being alone...

Alligator Bellows: Side-Trip Down A Rabbit Hole

by Jean Wilson | Nov 5, 2018 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Kraken

Spending lots of time on the water kayak fishing lends itself to endless opportunities to observe and witness phenomena using all of the senses. As the seasons go by there is an unfolding of the life cycles of the fish I’m pursuing, along with the plants, insects and...

Midday Madness: Hot-Weather Largemouth Bass In the Lily Pads

by Jean Wilson | Sep 18, 2018 | Coosa HD, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature

The often repeated advice for summertime or warm-weather bass fishing is to go early or late. But that’s not always possible and I’ve found that a middle of the day session can be quite lucrative if you can stand the heat! Low light, cloudy and windy days will cause...