Monthly Archives: February 2011

Frozen Jeff Kayak Fishing at 206 Bridge, Florida (Movie)

Here’s a new, short video from Jeff, who’s thawing after a long, cold winter: That superb fishing rod is a new Emmrod, and the reel is a Qualia.

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Over Half a Million Views for W Fishing Kayaks YouTube Videos

Yep, our W fishing kayak videos got viewed over 500,000 times on the zeepty YouTube channel…
About half of these views happened in the past 12 months.
The great majority of viewers are from the U.S. Amazing numbers – We live in new times…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Aesthetics and Performance in Fishing Kayak Design

What’s important in a product varies according to what different people are interested in. If you’re into kayak fishing, you’d be interested a number of things, including stability, comfort, storage, etc. offered to you by that kayak. In other words, for a kayak angler, the beauty of a kayaks depends first and foremost on its fishability, which is a composite measure of a fishing kayak’s performance.

For example, if you’re into kayak fishing, and you saw a kayak that’s very fast but also very unstable, it would seem useless to you, and therefore unattractive.
Most anglers fish from motorboats and not from kayaks, mainly because they perceive kayaks as being too unstable and too uncomfortable for fishing. Therefore, for the majority of anglers, a fishing kayak is just a too small, too uncomfortable and therefore ugly fishing boat. Continue reading

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Kayak Fishing as an Extreme Sport

For most anglers, kayak fishing is definitely an extreme sport. Extreme in the sense that an angler fishing from a kayak is compelled to give up the two essential things that any motorboat provides, which are sufficient stability and basic comfort. The third one, storage space is important as well, but less than the two first ones. Indeed, fishing kayaks are not stable enough, and extremely uncomfortable, when compared to regular size boats. As for storage in fishing kayaks, the situation is as dire as it is with stability and ergonomics. Continue reading

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