What Kayak Fishing Has Given Me by Jon Hummel | Jun 16, 2017 | Coosa HD, Fishing, Fishing SubjectsThis past Friday, I loaded up my Coosa HD and headed south after work, bound for Big Lazer Wildlife Management Area in Talbotton Georgia. I was meeting some friends to camp before Saturday’s Flint River kayak bass fishing tournament. It’s roughly 80 miles...
CKS PaddleFest: Wild & Free Tour by nicktroutman | Jun 16, 2017 | Canada, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, Video, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesOur ‘Wild & Free Tour’ continues on to the Colorado Tour with our first stop being the CKS PaddleFest. It was another incredible weekend filled with freestyle, racing, podium finishes, and lots of fun and friends. Though for me the highlight was getting to race...
The Great Disconnect by Donald Stubbings | Jun 15, 2017 | Family Zone, Fishing, FreshwaterIn 2017 in the world of snap chat, emoji’s and other technological roadblocks the time we get to truly communicate with our children and family is up to us, we as outdoor enthusiasts and Kayakers have to make the extra effort to go above and beyond the quick response...
Truck Life Tour 9: UNLEASHED stage 3 and 4. by sethashworth | Jun 15, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesTruck Life Tour continues in Canada, and so does the UNLEASHED tour. We ended up having two full downtime days between stage 2 Boater-X and Stage 3. The extra layover day was due mainly to super high water across eastern Canada. Everywhere was too...
Kayaks Only by Maxwell DeRussy | Jun 14, 2017 | Big Rig, FishingOne of the greatest things about fishing from a kayak is the ability to fish where boats can’t go. One of my local favorite holes to fish is not only close to home, but the launch is quiet and small with not a lot of boat traffic. Once you launch you immediately...
The Dynamic Uno by Micah Kneidl | Jun 14, 2017 | Creeking, Dynamic Duo, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesA few years ago I think I saw video of somebody running the Green River Narrows with an inflatable doll in the front cockpit of their 2-person boat. As somebody who has always loved paddling the Dynamic Duo tandem kayak made by Jackson Kayak, I was intrigued and...
Firsts and Lasts by Hilde Schweitzer | Jun 13, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Antix, Internationalisation, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesYou cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.” -John Wesley Powell- To say I have spent a good portion of my...
Skipper Snook’n​ Adventures by Bart Swab | Jun 13, 2017 | Cuda, Family Zone, Fishing, Kraken, rivers, SkipperMelea has spent countless hours fishing for redfish from the Big Tuna and the KilroyDT when she was younger and now out of her Skipper. We set off one afternoon to chase a less prominent fish in our area, the elusive Northeast Florida snook. This would be...
US Freestyle Kayak Team Trials 2017 – Buena Vista, CO by Jessie Stone | Jun 12, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, Playboating, United States, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThis year’s US Freestyle Kayak Team Trials took place on June 30-31st in Buena Vista, Colorado. There was plenty of good snow pack and even snow the week prior to the trials. Cool weather kept a good steady and lower flow going right up through the first day of the...
Reno River Fest 2017 by sagedonnelly | Jun 11, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Playboating, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesAfter training slalom for 6 months straight and winning both K1 and C1 Slalom Jr. Team Trials, in North Carolina, I flew home to compete in my local river festival after missing it for three years! We have been in a severe drought in Nevada to the point where the...
Gimme Shelter 11 by jimrussell | Jun 11, 2017 | Fishing, Fishing Subjects, Internationalisation, Kraken, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing, United States, VideoI recently completed my 8th annual pilgrimage to Shelter Cove for the Gimme Shelter 11 Kayak Fishing Tournament. This event is much more than a kayak fishing or diving tournament for me…it is about seeing great friends (many that I only see up there), being in...
Destination Peshtigo by Hannah Ray | Jun 10, 2017 | Creeking, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesDestination Peshtigo video link: Beautiful scenery, easy river access, and fun filled tea-stained class II-III whitewater (class III-IV at higher levels) for approximately 5 miles makes the Roaring Rapids section of the Peshtigo River a gem tucked into the Northwoods...
