WAVEWALK KAYAKS

Bruce Young, from Laser Lure, sent us a couple of action videos showing him standing up in his new W500 Super Fishing Kayak… and using his Laser Lures, of course:

They say that rescued fishing lures catch more fish…
Here’s Jeff McGovern, a good citizen of the Florida waterways, standing up in his w500 fishing kayak, in a tidal current, and rescuing a lure stuck high up in a tree:

Photo: Nina Green

The operation was a success, and here is Jeff resting in his fishing kayak if full southern comfort -

Note the tons of stuff Jeff carries on board his yak…

Here’s a movie sent to us by Bruce Young, from Florida:

Bruce Young is the inventor and manufacturer of the Laser Lure, and he loves fishing from his old W300.
Says Bruce: -”What I love about this kayak is that it’s the perfect fishing machine. It’s totally stable, and there’s so much room in it to carry my fishing gear on board!”

I Met up with My Fishing Buddy, Daddy Pickle to fish some new waters on Friday June 4th.

We headed out to Quaddick Reservoir in Thompson Ct. 1.5 hour drive from home, but well worth the trip.

Got to the waters edge at 10am, sunny/cloudy skies, The gin stained colored water was 80 to 85 degrees….air was HOT!!!!

Throwing top water, jigs, spinners, cranks…………the kitchen sink!

Within 15 minutes, I was dunking my hat in the water to help cool me off.
Got a small largemouth bass right off the bat and kicked the skunk out of the boat.
Pickle had a huge hit, but no hookup.
We were working a rock pile, but that one hit was it.

We make a move to another spot, a get back to it.
Pickles retying and I’m working the bottom with a jig, and I get Slammed!!
Up she comes and its a good bass, Pickle reaches for the net, but its all tangled, so I swing the Bass up, and it hits the hand rail,
out pops the hook and she’s gone…………………
……………….What was I thinking…………….
Pickle says, “that’s okay Rox, it’s not a money fish”  It didn’t make me feel any better…………..

As we a going along, and I’m still crabbing about the lost Bass, I cast my lure up under the trees, and Bam…………..missed…S-o-B!.
I cast back in and BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Fish on ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ she’s headed for the lillie,
up she comes…… Its A Big BASS.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ now I turn her, and she heads right under the boat.
Pickles ready with the net, but she don’t want to come out, she does a couple of circles under us, and I finally get her to come out, and Pickle scoops her up in the net.
And she filled that net!!!!

5lbs 10 oz, 21 3/4″ long. That made up for that lost one!

All in all we had a great day on a New lake, we covered 327 acres in 8 hours.
14 Large Mouth Bass, 3 Pike, a bunch of Crappies, and 4 Pickerels.

Can’t wait to go Back, I’ll be bringing My W500 fishing kayak in here as soon as I can.

Tight Lines and Paddle Safe All.
Rox

We initially headed up to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to hit a few ATV trails. After inspecting the bearings on my trailer I found that it needed new bearings. I prefer to fish the U. P. in June when the water warms up, but the weather looked decent so we loaded up the W’s and left the ATVs at home.

Friday was too windy and cold to head out on the water. Saturday brought the sun and warmer temps and calm winds, a beautiful spring day. We went to a lake close to are camp called Fish lake. I tried deep water for a couple of hours with no luck,water temps in the mid 50′s. I decided to move into a bay where the water temp reached 60.

Finally some action. Small pike were eager to bite on my floating J-11 Rapala near shore and red fish magic spinners out a way from the shoreline. A few tiny smallmouth were waking up along with the pike in the warmer water. Then finally a nicer fish hit my red fish chartreuse colored spinner bait. A huge smallmouth hit the lure hard. I battled it for a while and then he took his path to freedom around a sunken tree. Once again the big one got away!

Jeff, I am going to order some more redfish magic spinner baits. I guess the trip was “big” on scenery and “small” on fish. But as always it was great to get out on the water with the W’s.
It was Jeanne’s first time in the W500 model and she loved it. She was able to lay down comfortably and soak up some sun while I fished. You can’t do that in just any kayak.
Talk to you soon,
John and Jeanne

The weather is finally starting to cooperate down here.
I must have spooked over 100 redfish yesterday, but found one with a low enough IQ to inhale my topwater lure.
The water should be warming up nicely from here on out, and the fish should start feeding a whole lot better.

Gary

The one and only Jeff McGovern produced these two new kayak fishing movies.

In the first one, Jeff shows a nice sea trout (a keeper), which is his first catch of this year.

In this second movie, Jeff has a guest on board: A Redfish he thinks he recognized from a previous kayak fishing movie he made last year

Jeff McGovern to conduct kid’s inshore fishing clinic at Genung’s Fish Camp, Crescent Beach, January 23

Palatka, FL 1/4/10—Come spend an exciting, fun day with Jeff McGovern at Genung’s Fish Camp from 9 AM to Noon on January 23, 2010. Learn how to choose lures, bait, line and rigging to catch more fish in fresh and saltwater.
Emmrods will be featured and there will be a drawing for an Emmrod Packer Combo donated by Jeff’s Tackle Box at the end of the program. This free event is open to youth and youth groups of all ages and their parents and chaperones.
Coffee and donuts will be provided.

Registration is strongly recommended to avoid disappointment.

Genung’s Fish Camp is located at 291 Cubbedge Road (just below the 206 bridge at US 1), Crescent Beach, FL. For more information or to register, please contact Johnny at (904) 471-4144.

For more information about Jeff McGovern or Emmrod, go to www.jeffstacklebox.com

I got out today and thought it would be good to add to the blog. Granted we don’t have the winter weather some folks are getting slammed with but I did brave 52 degree air temps this morning.

Fishing wise the day was awesome, trout after trout, red after red, and of course those darn little blue fish tearing up lures. The trout fell to Mirrodines and DOA shrimp both classic trout lures. I managed 11 of them with all but three in the legal range, a nice bunch of fish. The redfish all hit the same topwater lure a Super Spook Jr in white & chrome with bright red eyes. The blue fish hit anytime a sinking lure got in their way near the surface.

As long as I got it under them the trout could get it. This was typical Florida winter fishing, loads of action so long as you could find the spots holding fish. As it was my final tally was 11 of those trout, 8 redfish, and at least 20 of those crazy little blues. Of course the W500 performed like a champ. By the way when I got back to Genung’s Fish Camp a number of folks were checking out the W. Hopefully some of them will be interested in buying.

Take Care, Jeff

-”Here you go, a true inshore saltwater trophy 36 inches, 37 with a pinched tail, weight at 17 to 18lbs.

This redfish was caught on a topwater plug (Chug Bug) in about 2 feet of water as it cruised the edge of a mangrove island.
The rod of course an Emmrod which I suggested they call a “Topwater Special”. This was the first fish on this new model.

Later this week I’ll be trying the feat again only in the W kayak instead of on board a flats skiff.  -Jeff”