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Kayak Fishing Market Trends 2000-2010

The notion that kayak fishing is booming has been repeated for years by various interested parties, but a search in Google News archives revealed these intriguing facts: 1. From 1990, the number of news articles about kayak fishing kept increasing, … Continue reading

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Kayak Fishing Trends – October 2009

Early this we published a blog asking whether the sport of kayak was actually growing as fast as interested parties were saying it was. Since there are no official data to analyze, we keep tracking the search activity on Google, … Continue reading

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Wavewalk’s 3rd Quarter of the Year

2009 numbers for the kayak industry keep declining because of the recession. In contrast, in the third quarter of the year (Q3: July, August and September) Wavewalk sold as many kayaks as it did in Q3-2008 and Q3-2007 combined, and … Continue reading

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May Be It

May was a wonderful month at Wavewalk. We broke our own all-time record in the number of boats ordered with a strong double digit growth, and our website logged over 16,000 unique visitors. The W500 is a hit, and it’s … Continue reading

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Trends in Searches for ‘Fishing Kayak’ on Google

Google offers an online, free service that shows trends in searches for key words. For example, this is the link for a report on searches for the key phrase fishing kayak: http://www.google.com/trends?q=fishing+kayak&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Interestingly, this report shows that Jacksonville, Florida is … Continue reading

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