A Ladies Day in the Coosa by JK Fans | Sep 25, 2012 | Coosa, Fishing5/23/12 Donna Coleman and I got to spend a week at Lake Texoma in Oklahoma last week paddling and fishing out of our Coosa’s. The weather was perfect and the fish were biting! Highly recommend this lake for fishing during the month of May if you ever get the...
Remembering Jeff West… A Tribute to ‘Superman’ of the River by Kat and David Levitt | Sep 21, 2012 | WhitewaterSomeone once said that “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” * This makes perfect sense in regards to the Southeast’s legendary paddling figure; Jeff West. His handsome face with a defined jaw, and tall muscular frame...
Racing the Super Hero and Duo on the Penobscot River by Adam Swett | Aug 20, 2012 | Dynamic Duo, WhitewaterI have always wanted to race the Class IV + Gorge/Crib section of the Penobscot River but never got the chance. Last weekend Sarah, our two labs and I headed north for “The Race That Never Was”. We were meeting our friend Pete who was really excited to...
Barnstable Harbor 8-4-2012 by Gregg Crisp | Aug 7, 2012 | Big TunaMet up with my friend Val Saturday morning down on Cape Cod, to fish Barnstable Harbor for some schoolies. I had a friend from work along with me that had never sat in a kayak before or had fished for stripers. Luckily Scott is a seasoned steelhead angler from the...
22 Years ago and Memory Boosting Emails! by Jeremy Adkins | Aug 1, 2012 | United States, WhitewaterWhere were you 22 years ago? Well, there is nothing like getting an email that brings up what you might have been doing. Here is a email that I got today reminding me of why I still paddle. The passion has never left and doing goofy stuff when I was 10 and doing goofy...
Spring on the Devils by Brady Sullivan | Jul 21, 2012 | Coosa, Fishing, Fishing Reports, Freshwater FishingThe Devils River is a special place to me, it claims more of my fishing days than any other body of water. This trip included myself, Dr. Clayton Vandergriff from Dallas, Ross Cox and Jake Quine from Midland. Clayton and I have done the Devils together before but this...
Idaho State University, rocking the Fun Runner! by colinkemp | Jul 15, 2012 | Whitewater The students at Idaho State University are going to be super excited this fall when classes start up again. Their outdoor program got their hands on a new fleet of Fun Runners. As you can tell from the photos the instructors and students who were around this...
Oregon Rockfish Classic by JK Team | Jul 5, 2012 | Cuda, Fishing, Fishing Reports, Fishing TournamentLast weekend’s Oregon Rockfish Classic was one of my toughest tournament fishing days ever. Even more so than the Lake Harding event in Georgia a couple years ago. I planned on fishing right out front of Depoe Bay on the north reef. This is where the previous two ORC...
FROM SCHOOLING FISH TO FISHING SCHOOL by Jerry Hamon | Jul 3, 2012 | Coosa, FishingThis was an awesome weekend for kayak fishing in North Texas. On Friday I took the Cuda to Lake Texoma for a little scouting trip to find some carp. That proved to be a bust but while enjoying a nice sandy beach on an island that I paddled to I saw the stripers...
First Outing in the Big Tuna by Steve Gibson | Jul 1, 2012 | Big Tuna, FishingGood times with my son on our first outing in the Big Tuna. We were on our way to break in the Big Tuna with some Redfish but Mother Nature decided that she didn’t want to cooperate with us and sent us some high winds on this day. Shortly after switching gears I...
Tshletshy Creek: 2012 by Brett Barton | Jun 18, 2012 | Whitewater Creek Sides has been layin’ low in prepatory style to bring you the goods. Our mission as of late has been exploring the Olympic Peninsula. We’ve ventured to other parts of the state, too, but really we need look no farther than, literally…...
13th Annual Best in the West- Results and Photos by Quinton Barnett | Jun 16, 2012 | Rockstar, Whitewater13th Annual Best in the West, Presented by Big Sky Brewery. On Thursday, June 7th we celebrated our 13th annual Best in the West freestyle kayak competition. The event was held downtown in Missoula at Brennan’s wave, a memorial to one of Missoula’s great paddlers...