Going kayak fishing is a fun adventure. But what makes it more fun is doing it with people you love, or pups you love. Yes! Going kayak fishing with your dog is so much fun! A simple platform can be built using a piece of marine grade plywood. Just cut the piece of wood into the desired size and shape for your dog, and secure it on to the front end of your kayak using hinges and short screws. Using […]
When choosing what is best to use when fishing it is important to consider lots of different variables, including weather, terrain, which prey live there, and water clarity. Using different custom fishing rods, casting techniques, personal preferences, and fishing styles can affect this. When fishing in an area where there are a lot of crawfish, bream, perch and bluegill it is common to use natural browns and greens. Also as a general rule of thumb, when the water is clear […]
Learning how to cast a baitcaster can be very beneficial. Although it may seem intimidating at first, and rightfully so, the most important part of learning how to use a baitcaster is practice. There are only seven easy steps to casting with a baitcaster. 1) Let between 6 and 12 inches of line out. 2) Hold the reel with your thumb on top of the spool of line. 3) Turn the rod so that the reel is facing upwards (the […]
The migration patterns of crappie can be very interesting and helpful when fishing for them. Once a thin layer of ice forms they will start to settle deeper, around 40 or 50 ft below. When there is a thick layer of ice they tend to stay closer to the surface. They do this because when the ice is thin the sunlight can penetrate considerably farther down than when there is a thick layer of ice. When they do go deeper […]
When learning how to cast a spinning reel it is most important that you practice. Practicing will help you master it fast. You don’t even need to practice on the water. You can easily practice right in the backyard. Just make sure you don’t get snagged on any trees, so a wide open space is best. To start your cast you first need to let out about 10” of line. Sometimes you let out less but I’ll cover that later. […]
When I got to tryouts I was so nervous. There were so many kids there. But I went onto the field and I just tried my best. That was all I could have done. After the tryouts my dad and I went to the local outdoorsman store to get hunting tags and look at their fishing stuff. They had custom fishing rods, baitcasting and spinning reels. A few days later my dad and I were watching a show in the […]
A few days after the tryouts my mom got an email that I had made the team! I showed up to the first practice. We mostly talked about the tournament and what positions we would be playing. To my surprise the coach assigned me to be goalie! I talked to him after the practice and he said that he wasn’t going to call me back to be on the team but then he was talking to my all star coach […]
I grew up always watching my brother play sports and I tended to follow in his footsteps, so I always felt behind. When I used to sit and watch him play soccer, I’d want to play too. So I told my mom and she signed me up for the next indoor season. This is how I started from a “soccer incompetent” 9 year old playing for an indoor rec league, to playing for a club travel team today. Unfortunately my […]
In the summer of 2019 my paternal grandparents decided to take my family and my cousins on a trip to North Carolina for the summer. We rented a giant beach house. You could walk out the back door and be 100 yards from the North Atlantic Ocean! Each night we would do a different activity, except for the first night. That’s when we spent the whole day driving all the way from Illinois. By the time we got there it […]
One fishing outing I remember is the one when I caught Fat Halpert, a 5 lb largemouth bass. Me, my brother, my mom and my dad all went out to Long Lake for a day of fishing. We had caught a few, maybe 7 each. Near the corner where we would turn to head back I cast near a patch of long grass and let my lure sink a little ways. Then dad called me back to turn around, but […]
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