Father’s Day: Tucker’s first Kayaking at 11 Months Old by nicktroutman | Jun 15, 2014 | Featured Post, JK Team Posts, WhitewaterWell it is Father’s Day today and my first Father’s Day as a dad. My son Tucker is just now 11 months old and it has been the biggest and best learning experience of my life. I can’t express how much joy I get in such a small bundle. Just three days...
JK Team Video Contest Winners! by nicktroutman | Jun 12, 2014 | Featured Post, JK Team Posts, Team JK, Trip Reports, Video, Video, WhitewaterThis spring during our JK Team Summit we launched a video contest for all our team to enter. Throughout the past 2 months team members has put their creative juices to work and created some amazing video master pieces. Here are the over all Winners: Regional...
Biggest Errors for Bass Anglers by joey monteleone | Jun 11, 2014 | Big Rig, Fishing, Freshwater, Instructional, JK Team PostsI’m an expert at losing BIG bass. While I’ve caught hundreds it came at a price. Think of a way to lose a trophy fish and I’ve done it. Here’s my list of the easiest and most common errors that can cost you that bruiser bass. Hope you can learn from my experiences and...
2014 GoPro Mountain Games Wrap Up… photos, video too! by ericjackson | Jun 9, 2014 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, Creeking, EJ Thoughts, JK Team Posts, Karma Unlimited, the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap Ups2014 GoPro Mountain Games will go down on the record books for many factors. Most attendance- 75,000 people on Saturday. Best Water levels- Gore Creek hovered around 1,000 CFS all week without spiking and flooding, or dropping too low. Homestake creek was the...
Pike Fishing by Roberto Briones | Jun 6, 2014 | Big Rig, Big Tuna, Fishing, Freshwater, JK Team PostsSpring fishing is not my most favourite time of the year to fish. The reason? Because I love fishing for bass. Here in the Great White North bass doesn’t open ’till the end of June. BUT my passion is fishing and enjoying the outdoors. So, I decided to take...
Wrap Up: 2014 Jamaica Bay Kayak Fishing Classic by Matthew Trucks | May 28, 2014 | Fishing, JK Team Posts, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing, Team JK, Tournaments, Wrap UpsAnother J-Bay Kayak Classic in the history books! As always a different story to go with the event. Weather good and bad. Broken gear and decent fishing! As my previous post stated, the weather wasn’t predicted to be fish able Thurs night into early Saturday...
Big Rig – What a boat! by Roberto Briones | May 24, 2014 | Big Rig, Fishing, Freshwater, JK Team PostsMay 10, 2014 was an epic day for most kayakers around this area of Canada after a long, long winter. A get-together of people with one common interest: kayak fishing in the waters of the St-Lawrence River in Boucherville, QC. It was the afternoon of May 9, I was hard...
IFA Kayak Fishing Tour – Empire recap by Ben Roussel | May 22, 2014 | Cuda, Featured Post, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, Internationalisation, JK Team Posts, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing, Tournaments, Trip ReportsThe IFA Kayak Fishing Tour held it’s first Louisiana division tournament of 2014 this past Sunday down in Empire at Delta Marina. 52 kayak anglers signed up to compete in the event and were treated with excellent weather conditions which ultimately meant a lot...
Father Daughter Fishing Day by jimrussell | May 21, 2014 | Cuda, Fishing, JK Team Posts, Saltwater FishingHatched a plan with my eight year old daughter Valentina to go out fishing on the kayak together. She was super excited and so was I!! Got her up bright and early and headed down to the beach and paddled out on the Cuda14 into calm seas. Right off the bat she hooked...
Before the storm by Robert Matthews | May 20, 2014 | Featured Post, Fishing, JK Team PostsHaving to cancel a river campout due to the severe storms that were approaching from the west, a friend took me fishing on a private stretch of river near his house. Launching the Coosa with a slight rain falling I worked down one of the banks tossing a popper with my...
Kilroy Spit and Whittle: Video by Chris Funk | May 18, 2014 | Fishing, Fly Fishing, Freshwater, JK Team Posts, Saltwater Fishing, VideoBelow is a link to a video about all the reasons the Jackson Kayak Kilroy is becoming one of my favorite...
Whitewater Grand Prix: Stage 5: Freestyle: Results/video by nicktroutman | May 11, 2014 | Events, Featured Post, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Trip Reports, Video, WhitewaterWe just finished up the 5th Stage of the Whitewater Grand Prix. It was the last freestyle event on such an amazing feature. It felt like a slightly smaller but faster Skookumchuck wave. The format was everyone got four 1 minute rides, with your best ride counting. Out...
