First Kayak Bass Fishing Trip of the 2012 Season, By Rox Davis

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Rox is undoubtedly one of the finest bass yakkers in America. Read more about kayak fishing for bass >>

I finally got out in my W500 for the first trip of the season in my yak.
I launched at 10:30 am at lake Congamond in Southwick Massachusetts.
Today was a picture perfect day.
Slight wind with sunny skies, I was hoping for some clouds, but they didn’t show up until the end of my day.
Water temps were 43 degrees to 47.8 degrees, and gin clear.

Long story short, I threw everything but the kitchen sink.
Though I had 3 Bass follow my jerk bait all the way to the boat, but they just wouldn’t commit and bite it.
I caught 5 pickerels, and only small bass.
I called it quits at about 3:30pm.

I was paddling through the flats, an area where the water is 2’ to 8’ deep, and decided to give one more lure a try.
I had a little mepps inline spinner in brown trout color, tied onto 8’ test floro.
I cast it almost to shore and retrieved it back to me slowly.
That picked me up a couple more small Bass, but not what I was looking for.

I made a cast up shallow next to a dock, and as the spinner came past the very end………….BAM!!! Fish On!!
I had a head shaking fool, running for deep water.
Now I’m getting my first tow of the season, as she turns and heads straight at me……………
I’m reeling in the slack line as fast as I can to catch up to her, and up she comes for my first tail Dance of the season.
She dives under my W500 and Pops out the other side, my pole dipped down under water hoping she would pop off.
She surges back out for the shallows on the dock I pulled her from.
I pull her up towards the surface, back towards my yak, and into my net.

Now this is what I was Looking for, 3.5 lbs fat healthy Large Mouth Bass.

large mouth bass - first kayak fishing trip of 2012Called it a day after that, and headed home.
A side note, I picked up another motor, a 2003 2hp Honda 4 stroke.
After it gets a tune up, I’ll be making another video.

Life Is Good.

Tight lines and MoPaddle safe all.
Rox

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Good News For Kayak Fishing in Ontario, Canada

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

This magazine is dedicated to kayak fishing in colder climates, and Canada is a cold region by any standard. For this reason, kayak fishing hasn’t appealed to Canadian anglers as much as it has to southern ones.  After all, when you’re fishing in cold water and cold weather, you want to be stable, stay dry, and be protected from the cold wind and elements, as much as possible. Conventional sit-in, SOT and hybrid fishing kayaks simply don’t deliver an acceptable level of performance when these elementary requirements are concerned, and neither do they offer you to paddle standing in full confidence while scouting for fish, or when you’re fly fishing.
However, W fishing kayaks are different, and they fit the most rigorous climates as much as any big motorized fishing boat does.
Boyd Smith, from Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian kayaker and fisherman, who discovered the benefits that W kayaks present, and he decided to import them to Ontario.
He founded Ontario Fishing Kayaks, and he’s offering Canadian anglers looking to downsize from motorboats or quit fishing from inadequate conventional fishing kayaks to take a W kayak for a fishing trip, and experience the unrivaled stability, dryness, ease of use, and comfort for themselves: No wet butt, no back pain, no leg numbness, etc., I.E. the real deal.
As W fishing kayak fans say: “Nothing like it, nothing better”.

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W Fishing Kayaks At The 80th Annual Northwest Sportshow In Minneapolis, MN

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Gary Thorberg and the MinnYaks Team will be exhibiting the Wavewalk W500, which is the world’s best fishing kayak according to people who fish from it, at the 80th Annual Northwest Sportshow, between March 28 andApril 1st, in Minneapolis Minnesota.

When it comes to fishing from boats, Gary knows what he’s talking about:

-”Being a native Minnesotan, I was exposed to boating and fishing at an early age. My first experience sailing was at age 8, and it has been my passion ever since. I have captained many a charter on large catamarans in the Caribbean. Fishing has also been a large part of my life. I lived in the Florida Keys for a while, where I was a commercial fisherman and diver. Our families are fortunate to have owned lake cabins in northern Minnesota for 50 years, so fresh water fishing and boating is also in my blood. Many boats have come and gone in my life, and I am so very pleased to have added the W500 to my fleet. It possibly will be the last boat I will own (unless I buy another W500 for my wife!).”

Gary is an expert on outfitting fishing kayaks, including with powerful outboard gas engines, and he loves to fish out of his kayak. He and his team expect anglers from Minnesota and other parts of the Midwest, as well as Canada, to come to the show especially to see the W fishing kayak.

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A Fishing Kayak As a Symbol Of Hope In Ice Cold Scandinavia

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

Eric, from Walk on Waves, a fishing kayak distributor in Norway and Sweden, sold a W500 about a week ago.
Why would such small news be worth mentioning? Because Norway is a cold country, whose latitude is pretty much the same as Alaska’s, and there’s no navigable water to be found in there this time of year, unless you venture in a part of the Atlantic Ocean known as the North Sea, but that’s a totally different story, involving serious safety issues, hypothermia, etc…

Being situated that far North inevitably means that spring comes later in Norway, even in comparison to cold regions such as the US Northeast, Midwest and Northwest.
This is to say that Norwegian kayak anglers need much patience…

So why would a Norwegian angler buy a W kayak in January, or in February?
Assuming kayak anglers are sensible, and they don’t take a kayak in the ocean and fish in in extremely cold temperatures, the answer would probably be that it has to do with either some extensive rigging projects, or simply with hope: That person wants to sit in their home, surrounded by deep snow, look at their W fishing kayak, and imagine all the fun they’d have with it as soon as the snow goes away, and the ice covering the rivers and lakes melts; The fishing trips, the rigging, maybe camping, or even hunting?

Hope, Patience, Imagination, and the Love of Boating, Paddling, and Fishing – A simple story, yet a significant one.

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More Places Where You Can See A W Fishing Kayak – Ohio and Pennsylvania

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

One of the problems that some kayak anglers face when choosing a fishing kayak is that the one that’s on top of their list is not available for sale locally, in a dealership that offers fishing kayaks for sale.
This happens often with the W fishing kayak, the hands down winner in practically everything related to cold climate fishability, including stability, ergonomics, storage space, mobility, protection for the crew, and so on…

Until recently, these advanced kayaks were sold only factory direct. Since then the manufacturer recruited several local dealers, and interestingly, they sell only this brand, and no other fishing kayak brand.
Wavewalk has dealers neither in Ohio nor in Pennsylvania, but it makes the W fishing kayak available for anglers to see before they buy in two new locations: The W500 is on display in Kent, Ohio, not very far from Akron, i the northeastern corner of the state.
In Pennsylvania, the W500 is on display in New Berlin, in the central part of the state.

More information about seeing this fishing kayak in Ohio and Pennsylvania >>

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