Kayak Fishing

When I think of a kayak, I think of whitewater, adventure, helmets, life jackets, paddles and of coarse, tipping over. I have been in kayaks many times in my life, sometimes while doing television hosting. When you're on camera the last thing you want to do is get dunked and that was always something of a challenge. Okay where am I going with this. I have seen lots of recent videos showing people fishing from a kayak. Incredibly, some of these videos are taken in saltwater where sharks are kind of swirling around. The last thing that I would want is to hook a fish, be fighting the fish in a wobbly kayak while a fin was circling my boat. Bottom line, why do people fish out of kayaks when they are so unstable? Well, for an easy answer, I called Sportsmen's Warehouse and got Luke Taylor on the line. "What they are using is a touring kayak which is longer and tracks very well in the water. You can cover quite a bit of distance and it's like a bike. Once you get it moving it is extremely stable. They have ports on those type of kayaks, one in the front and one in the back. You can store your gear. You can tip over in any kind of boat, it's all about how you handle it. These things are used all the time for catching fish. You can land a 10 pound fish in a kayak just as you can in a float tube.