Runswick Bay Kayak Match by Michael Taylor | Jul 10, 2014 | UKThe Runswick Bay annual Kayak Festival and competition is one of my favourite events here in the Uk, it’s a well organised and well run event and always has a great turnout. This year was no exception, people traveled from all over the country to fish the match....
The Haile Sand Fort – back to where it all began. by Mark Radcliffe | Jul 10, 2014 | Cuda, UKSix years ago when my dad first suggested buying kayaks it was solely to target the bass in the River Humber. The first time we launched we knew nothing, but we both caught small bass and immediately all the cost of getting rigged up was forgotten, just those two...
Clyweddog Sailing Club Disability Day 2014 by Terry Wright | Jul 9, 2014 | UKThere are times in your life when your hear lifts and you feel that in some small way you have made a difference. The Clyweddog Sailing Club Disability Day 2014 was one of those days for me. Clyweddog Sailing Club have being giving the less abled, both children and...
Runswick Bay….a day too late by Mark Radcliffe | Jul 7, 2014 | Cuda, UKFriday 4am saw me heading north to attend the Runswick Bay kayak fishing competition. Organised by Ken and Fiona of Wet and Wild this has been a regular in the calendar for many years and is a big fish contest. Local knowledge usually comes to the fore here and I have...
Predator Grand Slam in Esthwaite by Sam Baxter | Jun 29, 2014 | UKBefore I headed to Sweden for 10 days of kayak fishing I held my annual predator grand slam event at Esthwaite in the UK. I took on this event in 2013, I run it as a 2 day match where competitors have to catch the 3 predators: Pike, Perch and Trout. Competitors have...
Bluefish in Oristano bay by Andrea Caocci | Jun 27, 2014 | Germany, Italy, UKToday(24June2014) with absolute calm of wind I decide to go out fishing with my Cuda12 in the bay of Oristano(my hometown), the bay looks like the most eastern shores such as new jersey, long sandy beaches surrounded by brackish lagoons which produces a variety of...
Pike Fishing – Amsele, Lapland Sweden by Sam Baxter | Jun 26, 2014 | Sweden, UKThe second leg of our Lapland journey brings us to Amsele, some 140km south east of Blattnicksele on the road to Umea. Close by are a chain of lakes connected by a small river system, here we found that the shallow ground and reeds held a lot of Pike. The common...
A windy few hours after dark by Michael Taylor | Jun 25, 2014 | UKAt the moment I am working 12 hour shifts every day of the week and no time off is killing me, so one evening a loaded all my gear into the car for the next day after work. I finished at 7 pm picked up my Cuda and had a 20 minute drive to Runswick bay. Once again the...
Pike Fishing – Lapland Sweden by Sam Baxter | Jun 24, 2014 | Sweden, UKBack in the depths of winter members from the Jackson Kayak UK fishing team were invited to join other european team members to 10 days kayak fishing in Lapland Sweden, it took me all of about 2 seconds to say ‘Yes’. Straight away I was checking out Google...
VIDEO- Pike on the Rubber Duck by Sam Baxter | Jun 23, 2014 | Fishing, Sweden, UKA few weeks before heading off to Sweden I was sat in the bath thinking of what lures I need to take with me, then I thought what silly lures could I catch on. My wife has a little collection of rubber ducks sat by the bath, mmmm, could I rig a rubber duck with treble...
Pike fishing on the fly by Terry Wright | Jun 22, 2014 | UKUp until now my methods for pike fishing have been confined to live and dead baiting along with a wide variety of lure fishing. Friends of mine had been telling me that there was nothing like the thrill of catching pike on a fly. Time to find out. I decided to give it...
The Glorious 16th. by Terry Wright | Jun 20, 2014 | UKAs many will know June 16th is a momentous day for the freshwater angler in England. It is the day when our rivers open for fishing after a three month rest to allow fish to breed unhindered. It has long been a tradition for freshwater anglers to make every effort to...