{"id":19268,"date":"2018-05-24T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=19268"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:37:29","slug":"first-striper-trip-in-my-wavewalk-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/first-striper-trip-in-my-wavewalk-700\/","title":{"rendered":"First striper trip in my Wavewalk 700"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"http:\/\/wfishingkayaks.com\/\">Roxanne Davis<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took the Wavewalk 700 to the Connecticut River today in Windsor Locks.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for stripers, I was able to get in 4 good drifts before I go off the water before dark.<\/p>\n<p>Water levels are low, fish are hard to pinpoint, but I found a few takers.<\/p>\n<p>Lost two good fish, then hooked up 3\u2019 from the W700, and she threw the hook and it sailed right by my head!!!<\/p>\n<p>Going to be hitting that area hard for the next few days, in hopes of beating my 38 1\/2\u201d PB Striper.<\/p>\n<p>The 2hp motor did okay, but with strong currents I need at least a 4hp&#8230;..each time I tried to buy one it fell through<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I\u2019ll keep searching.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short video and a couple pictures of the small stripers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LXBfQUAwPk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19270 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-fishing-trip-in-motorized-W700-kayak-Connecticut-river.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-fishing-trip-in-motorized-W700-kayak-Connecticut-river.jpg 1280w, 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src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/striper-caught-in-fishing-trip-Connecticut-river-1-1170x878.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19272 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/motorized-Wavewalk-700-fishing-kayak-1170x878.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?s=roxanne+davis&amp;searchsubmit=U\">More fishing adventures with Rox \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roxanne Davis &nbsp; I took the Wavewalk 700 to the Connecticut River today in Windsor Locks. Searching for stripers, I was able to get in 4 good drifts before I go off the water before dark. Water levels are low, fish are hard to pinpoint, but I found a few takers. Lost two good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/first-striper-trip-in-my-wavewalk-700\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First striper trip in my Wavewalk 700&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":19269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19274,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19268\/revisions\/19274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}