Living in the Moments, Enjoying the Bite by Henry Veggian | Jul 20, 2024 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Fishing Tournament, Freshwater, Freshwater FishingI set up on a concrete launch. My Bite FD is parked under a walking bridge during a passing shower. I stand and paddle like a gondolier through a grassy backwater. A corporate HQ building looms across the lake. Paddling a quiet creek, I turn to check my water paddle...
Scupper Plugs 101: Do I Need Them? by Henry Veggian | Jun 15, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerBy Hank Veggian Rain. Paddle Drip. Wave Splashes. Boat Wakes. These are some of the phenomena that introduce water into our kayaks. Let’s admit it: no matter how you adjust the drip guards on your paddle or angle your boat through waves, the floor of a kayak will get...
Kayak Care by joey monteleone | Jun 3, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Instruction, Freshwater Fishing, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerKayak Care You’ve made a choice and an investment and now you want to take care of your kayak to get years of service and fun from your boat. It may be your plan to keep your kayak for several seasons or maximize your return when you go to sell it. After having...
Kayak Plan of Attack by joey monteleone | May 8, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerKayak Plan of Attack Eventually intentionally or even accidentally you develop a strategy for your kayak excursions. For us our primary focus is fishing. While we do explore for new places and we paddle / pedal with a purpose. A traditional approach has become a plan...
Kayak Buying Guide for Anglers Over 40 by Chris Payne | Apr 21, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerNot every person looking to buy their first kayak is a young whippersnapper of 20 or even 30. Lots of new kayak anglers are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Allow me a moment, to be frank. As an angler who falls into one of those latter age ranges, our needs are different...
Pre-Season Kayak Fishing Rigging by JK Team | Apr 19, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Freshwater Fishing, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Bannersubmitted by Matt Campbell Anticipation builds as the early spring begins and you can’t help but start thinking about getting on the water and chasing bass again. You see the folks in the south posting fish pictures and see the tournament reports come in from all over...
Stop Look and Listen by Chris Funk | Apr 5, 2022 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerIt may seem odd to post a blog piece about “Stop, Look and Listen” but this one doesn’t deal with railroad crossings. This is a bit of advice that I have to give myself when I find that I have gotten way too serious. We are anglers and we want to catch fish; I am not...
Always Keep a Back Up Bait Handy by Chris Funk | Apr 1, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Instruction, Fishing Subjects, Freshwater Fishing, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerThere is very little that is exciting as a fish demolishing a topwater bait. Whether it is a buzzbait blazing a trail across the surface or slowly walking hard bait it doesn’t matter. Once that bait disappears in a fountain of froth it is like being struck by a small...
KAYAK: Benefits With Friends by joey monteleone | Feb 4, 2022 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerKAYAK: Benefits With Friends There is an abundance of reasons to climb into / onto the kayak. Here are a few: UNSOCIAL DISTANCING In a time when people prefer to “social distance” there’s not a better way than being outdoors and add to that the pastime of kayaking....
Fishing The Wild West TV……in a Kayak by Trevor Thomson | Aug 30, 2021 | Bite, Canada, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Internationalisation, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerThis past spring I had the wonderful fortune to be apart of a kayak angling experience like none other. If you live in Western Canada, heck, if you watch all the fishing show’s on the networks like I do, then chances are you’ve heard of Fishing the Wild Wes TV with...
Susquehanna River Tournament by Chuck Bahan | Aug 12, 2021 | Bite, Events, Fishing, Fishing Boats, Fishing Feature, Fishing Reports, Fishing Tournament, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerFishing the Susquehanna River has been on my bucket list for a couple years. I’ve watched videos of fishing this river and the outstanding smallmouth fishing it has to offer. My friends thought I was crazy living in South Louisiana wanting to drive 16 hours to...
It’s Alright to Go Ultralight by joey monteleone | May 13, 2021 | Bite, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Feature, Fishing Instruction, Freshwater Fishing, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main BannerIt’s Alright to Go Ultralight In a world that espouses to the BIGGER is better mentality, where we are offered to upsize, get the giant, family size, mega version you might want to consider downsizing. Decades of fishing have brought me to the conclusion that the...
