Comments on: Canoe and Kayak Market Trends in Recent Years

By: jon

jon — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:51:41 +0000

i like the theme of your blog on fishing. nice one. keep it up

By: Pat Metzker

Pat Metzker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:12:16 +0000

I am going to write an article on kayaks and focused on kayak fishing popularity. Seems to be really in vogue with the gas prices, green movement, and “LL Bean” enthusiasts. My sister-in-law just invested in her 10′ kayak from her experiences in canoeing…and she is 50 years old…not the outdoors type? There is a local fishing tournament with a kayak division….
Seems to be growing in popularity…..
plm

By: admin

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:41:55 +0000

What the ads don’t say is that sooner or later your fishing lines are likely to get caught in the outriggers, even if you’re careful enough to cast away from them.

By: Dolphin

Dolphin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:12:10 +0000

looks like standup kayak fishing is more mainstream today than it used to be. you can see more people fishing with outriggers at least in ads

By: admin

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:31:26 +0000

Being the biggest kayak fishing tournament in the USA undoubtedly makes it the biggest of its kind worldwide.
Mike Kogan has done an admirable job in the way he organized the Jacksonville kayak fishing club, the website and the tournament.
Yoav

By: Taboo Tattoo

Taboo Tattoo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:53:24 +0000

Last year there were close to three hundred participants in the Jax kayak fishing classic tournament. It’s the biggest in the country — TBT

By: admin

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:57:00 +0000

Compared to fishing from motorboats kayak fishing is still a marginal market, both in participation and dollar terms. It’s hard to measure its full extent since any kayak outfitted with a rod holder automatically becomes a ‘fishing kayak’, and most fishing kayak models on the market are basically that: wider and stabler recreational kayaks outfitted with fishing accessories.
Kayak fishing is mainly a sunshine belt phenomenon, and its epicenter is in Florida. The other two states where you’ll find many kayak fishermen are Texas and California. The further you go north the less kayak fishing catches people’s imagination, until the phenomenon almost disappears in the coldest states and in Canada.
It doesn’t seem like traditional SOT and sit-in kayaks are positioned to replace canoes and other small, human powered watercraft traditionally used for fishing - at least outside the sunshine belt, because even sit-in kayaks don’t offer their passengers adequate protection from the elements.
BTW, there is no doubt the sit-on-top (SOT) is more popular among fishermen than the sit-in kayak design is, at least in the warmer states.

By: Graham Rubens

Graham Rubens — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Any idea what the numbers are for kayak fishing