Turning your “tuna tank” into a live bait well!

by Drew Gregory | Apr 17, 2012 | Big Tuna, Featured Post, Fishing, Internationalisation, Saltwater Fishing, United States

One of the features that the Big Tuna is getting a lot of attention for is the “tuna tank” which is a hatch that is in the center of the boat, is virtually flush with the deck and is inserted into a large opening in the boat that allows access to the water...

Two EPIC weeks surfing one of my favorites… BUSEATER!

by nicktroutman | Apr 17, 2012 | Allstars, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, rivers, Rockstar, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Uncategorized, Whitewater

So it all started with a phone call…. “Nick, dude, get up here now, Bussy is in and it is 80 degrees outside!” This call came from my best friend Joel Kowalski up in Beachburg. He lives on the Ottawa River and got me started in kayaking 10 years ago. Now you have to...

Big Tuna photo-fest!!!!

by Drew Gregory | Apr 12, 2012 | Big Tuna, Featured Post, Fishing, Freshwater Fishing

Ok, ok, I hear you loud and clear!  “We want Big Tuna photos!”  So, what I’ve just done is uploaded some below that we’ve been taking while out on the water filming the promo video.  I hope you enjoy the variety of photos showing off the...

2012 Alabama Mountain Games

by nicktroutman | Apr 11, 2012 | Events, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Team JK, Whitewater

The 2012 season has begun! The first event of the year is always the Alabama Mountain Games. It is an amazing event with tons of different competitions and sports aspects. Friday started off with the ‘Huckfest’ and freestyle of the lip of an 18 foot tall waterfall....

Father/Daughter Time

by Robert Matthews | Apr 9, 2012 | Blogroll, Coosa, Cuda, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Reports, Freshwater, Freshwater Fishing, JK Team Posts

With my daughter in town for a few days from College I decided to take a day off and spend it with her on the river. The last time we went out we were both in Coosa’s so I was looking forward to how she was going to like fishing out of the new Cuda. We launched...

A Weekend at Paddlepalooza

by Ben Roussel | Apr 5, 2012 | Cuda, Featured Post, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Internationalisation, Saltwater, Tournaments, Video

This past weekend was BCKFC’s Paddlepalooza at Bobby Lynn’s Marina down in Leeville, LA. I had the pleasure of being down there Friday – Sunday. 201 people registered for the tournament, which is the most ever for the club, and according to Catch...

Training at Eternity Hole

by nicktroutman | Mar 30, 2012 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, Playboating, Rockstar, Team JK, Uncategorized, Video, Video, Whitewater

Upcoming 2012 season is approaching quickly. With some training in mind I headed up to North Carolinas Eternity Hole. I hadn’t been paddling there before though I had heard many great things. When I first saw the hole I knew it was going to be epic. The feature had...

2012 Hometown Throwdown Southeast Championship

by wildwildwes | Mar 30, 2012 | Events, Featured Post, Playboating, Whitewater

One of our main goals over the past 5 years of coordinating and hosting the Hometown Throwdowns has been to get the infrastructure setup in our region to host a Championship Series of these events.  All the pieces of the puzzle came together this year to make that...

Johnson City Press Spotlights Local Pool Session

by wildwildwes | Mar 14, 2012 | Clinics, Events, Featured Post, Instructional, JK Team Posts, Team JK, Video

Amanda Marsh from the Johnson City Press dropped in last Tuesday to our Freedom Hall Pool Session to check out what it was all about.  She interviewed several of our local paddlers and shot some video & photos of the action.  The story was published in...

Watauga Gorge Good Times!

by wildwildwes | Mar 7, 2012 | Creeking, Featured Post, Trip Reports, Video, Video

Most anyone who is acquaintances with me in the paddling world knows my very fond LOVE for the Watauga Gorge.  The run is full of boofs, slides, boulder garden technical moves, and even a waterfall to top it off!  It is the best class IV run in the world IMO and only...

Fit to Fish

by Trey Leggett | Feb 16, 2012 | Cuda, Featured Post, Fishing, Freshwater, Freshwater Fishing, JK Media, JK Team Posts, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing

There I was sitting in my kayak needing to reach forward to turn on my camera.  I kept wondering why in the world I was having such difficulty completing such a mundane and easy task.  Was I getting old?  Of course, but that wasn’t completely the reason for the...

Jackson Kayaks Launches its Pure River Runner- the ZEN: Promo Video

by nicktroutman | Jan 30, 2012 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, Team JK, Video, Whitewater, Zen

The much anticipated ZEN is finally here, Jackson Kayak’s first ‘pure’ river running kayak. With some more hull speed, and excellent carving abilities the Zen with make catching eddying and making your moves much easier. The reduced volume in the...