{"id":4618,"date":"2012-12-02T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:34:02","slug":"short-video-fisherman-finds-his-way-in-a-sea-of-flooded-grass-flats-by-jeff-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/short-video-fisherman-finds-his-way-in-a-sea-of-flooded-grass-flats-by-jeff-mcgovern\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman stands up in his W500 Kayak and finds his way in flooded grass flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated February 6, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6&#8217;3&#8243; Jeff McGovern shot this video from his W500 Fishing Kayak in 2012, and it is as relevant today as it was back then: A kayak (or small boat) that doesn&#8217;t allow you to <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/fishing-standing-in-kayak-and-paddling-standing\/\">stand up at will<\/a> may not be considered as a true fishing kayak (or boat).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to appreciate the beautiful panoramic shots of miles of featureless flooded grass flats, as well as Jeff&#8217;s wise advice:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YycQKHNpeog?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Says Jeff &#8211;<br \/>\nHere is one of the many seatrout from yesterday. Right after the video just about the time I was getting close to the open area outside the creek the sky got dark. Wind, rain, it was fun and thank goodness I was in the Wavewalk 500. Made it much more comfortable not having to sit in a puddle.<br \/>\nMost of the fish came when things got nasty, since it was a long paddle back against the wind I figured I&#8217;m already wet so I might as well fish. Very glad there was no lightening and thunder. We are the lightening strike capital of the world around here and I hate to be part of the record when I&#8217;m out on the water.<br \/>\nOf course when the weather started to improve the W500 is great for a quick trip back to the fish camp.<\/p>\n<p>Take Care, Jeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated February 6, 2025 6&#8217;3&#8243; Jeff McGovern shot this video from his W500 Fishing Kayak in 2012, and it is as relevant today as it was back then: A kayak (or small boat) that doesn&#8217;t allow you to stand up at will may not be considered as a true fishing kayak (or boat). You&#8217;ve got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/02\/short-video-fisherman-finds-his-way-in-a-sea-of-flooded-grass-flats-by-jeff-mcgovern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fisherman stands up in his W500 Kayak and finds his way in flooded grass flats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","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=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26111,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/26111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}