How Do You Measure a Good Day of Kayak Fishing?

by teamjk | May 1, 2018 | Fishing, Kilroy

How Do You Measure a Good Day of Kayak Fishing? By Aaron Rubel Jackson Kayak National Fishing Team Pro Staff What is your measure of a good day on the water?  Is it a pursuit of landing that big fish, discovering a new species, or maybe the sheer numbers...

Southbound & Down

by Eli Braud | Apr 30, 2018 | Coosa FD, Fishing

This past weekend was Redbone Fishing Club’s Southbound and Down tournament. For those that do not know, Redbone one of the smaller kayak fishing clubs in South Louisiana. The others are the Bayou Coast Kayak Fishing Club, the Lafayette Kayak Fishing Club, and the...

How to BEAT the weekend warrior!

by Mathieu Dumoulin | Apr 30, 2018 | Antix, Fitness, France, Instructional, Internationalisation, rivers, Whitewater, Whitewater Instruction

Last year I had big changes happening in my personal life. I went from full time kayaker based in France and traveling 8-10 months out of the year to getting married, and settle down in Colorado with my wife. Domesticated, stuck and assigned to a job, there was a lot...

SPB River Fest

by Tom Dolle | Apr 29, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, France, Internationalisation, Whitewater

English Part: Last week-end, we had three days to enjoy Easter. Family time ?! Yes, it was for the french freestylers. From March 31st to April 2nd, a big part of the kayakers family had come together to compete at the French National Freestyle championship. This...

Defeating the Wind.

by teamjk | Apr 29, 2018 | Fishing

Corpus Christi is known for many things, The Selena monument, The US Lexington, The home of many amazing musical artist, and beautiful scenery. The one thing they don’t tell you is how windy it is in the spring. This article is going to give you tips on how to kayak...

Kayak Transport

by teamjk | Apr 28, 2018 | Coosa FD, Fishing, Fishing Instruction, Instructional

One of the toughest things about kayak fishing is actually getting the kayak to the water. This is a struggle that many people can attest to. This may be due to owning a smaller car, having an injury or a disability, and/or living in an urban area. This does not mean...

Bear Creek with a “Big Bang” 2018

by Kat and David Levitt | Apr 28, 2018 | Creeking, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Bear Creek and a Big Bang Go to the video below if you want to skip the story. On March 2nd, I finished work and headed to meet a group of young guns to paddle Bear creek. It was a beautiful day and the water level was a perfect minimum to run everything. The normal...

Nationals

by sagedonnelly | Apr 27, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, Team JK, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

Right after making Jr. and Senior USA slalom teams in Canoe and Kayak, I left North Carolina and drove the six hours down to Columbus, Georgia for freestyle national championships. I hadn’t been in my play boat since Worlds in December and I was really excited to get...

January to March 2018

by jimrussell | Apr 27, 2018 | Fishing, Internationalisation, Kraken, Saltwater, Saltwater Fishing, United States, Video

It has been a busy first three months of the year, but I have still been able to sneak out and get in some diving here and there off my Kraken 13.5, from shore, and even once from my buddy Jeff’s boat. While I haven’t gotten out as much as I would have...

NFL Kick Off 2018

by Mike Shaw | Apr 26, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, UK, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Last Friday night was the NFL kickoff event! Now I’m fully aware we still have another five months before the actual NFL season kicks off and this is an article on kayaking and not an article about my love of an entirely different sport. So why am I talking about the...

The Start of Summer

by Mark Radcliffe | Apr 26, 2018 | Fishing, Internationalisation, UK

One of the first signs of summer on the U.K. fishing scene is the much-anticipated arrival of the bream. The inshore reefs can be devoid of fish over the spring, but then with one tide a few bream start to show and over the next few days they arrive in numbers. The...

‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’

by nicktroutman | Apr 25, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Canada, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, MixMaster, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

This past weekend was the ‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’. It was another incredible weekend at NOC and the Nantahala River. This year the event was held in memory of the late Maria Noakes, who was a mother, paddler, local hero, and friend to many people and paddlers...