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men and women have a tendency to stretch
after-work hotspot #18.
the truth, but I wish everyone was on the up
angleR: Paul CRumP // PhoTo: jamie ChuRCh
and up with catch and release.
Collette Granbois
Waukesha, Wis.
Kayak Angler in Iraq
I just wanted to say thank you for sending
the box of magazines to me over here in
Iraq. I had talked to a few of the guys over
here about my favorite hobby, but I don’t
think they really understood what I was talk-
ing about until your magazines showed up.
I have been fielding questions and talking
about kayak fishing with them ever since!
It has been great and really lifted the spirits
of those of us with a lot of fishing stories to
tell! And while the kayak aspect is totally
Kentucky, unbridled fishing
new to most of these guys, your magazine,
So I am out shopping for a new boat and I fell in love with the Native Watercraft Ultimate
along with my propensity to talk about it, has
12. So I go tonight to sit in it and “really” look her over, ‘cause I don’t want to make a mis-
helped to open their eyes to the possibilities
take on this purchase. See, my buddies and I are AVID and I mean AVID kayak fishing
that await them when they get back to the
nuts! So I have to take this stack of magazines out of the boat to get in and check out the
States. I’m sure we will have a few new par-
seat, and in the boat is the Spring 2008 Kayak Angler. I am hooked now. My subscription
ticipants in the sport in a few months. Since I
will be filled out after this email!
am spending the whole summer over here, I
My buddy Paul and I have been fishing this river, and region, since the late ‘80s from the
probably won’t get to do much fishing myself
banks, and on foot, and recently we have discovered places that we can get in our nimble
this year so I am living vicariously through
and trusty kayaks. And boy has it been paying off, BIG TIME! When the water is running
all my friends in the kayak fishing commu-
between 14 and 16 feet the GAME IS ON! We went Sunday June 1 to the very spot you
nity. I saw many friends and acquaintances
wrote about in the number 18 spot [“25 Best After-Work Kayak Fishing Spots,” Spring
in your magazine and it brought back memo-
2008], and we landed eight species of fish! I even landed a gar, and caught a catfish on
ries of better times.
a rattletrap! In all we caught over 50 fish each, and we were only driver, three wood and
LT Marty Mood, U.S. Navy
pitching wedge from downtown Louisville!
Al Asad AB, Iraq
If you guys are interested in some awesome fishing, you are more than welcome to give
it a go on the Ohio as our guest. We have extra boats and can assist with all of the logistics Sunrise on the flats
once you arrive.
I took this photo just after sunrise on May 9,
Thanks for an awesome magazine!
2008, from my kayak while fishing the Indian
Jamie Church
River in Fort Pierce, Florida. I was concen-
Louisville, Ky.
trating on catching snook and spotted seat-
rout on a grass flat and just happened to look
to the east and catch this shot from my Ocean
Modeling responsible behavior
.drowned because he/she didn’t have a PFD
Kayak Prowler 15.
Ken Taylor, President
There were photos on your website that caught
and we’ll all get mega-regulated.
CCA Florida, Venice-Englewood Chapter
my eye. Seems to me you’d want to promote
If you want to promote kayaking, please do
safety a bit more by showing your paddlers
it with a sense of responsibility and a leaning
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wearing life jackets. Not wearing a life jacket is
to safety on the water. o: K
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a very serious error in colder waters. Granted
Tom Watson
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in warmer bodies it’s not as serious if you are
via email R
an adequate swimmer.
Photos of kayakers should be shown in the
Catch, photograph, and fry?
most responsible settings and that setting is I just picked up Kayak Angler for the first
wearing a life jacket. I’ve seen photos of guys time and I have to say it was a great read. All
several hundred yards from shore wearing the informative articles and ads helped me
hip waders with no PFD in a fishing kayak. buy my first kayak. I went from a small jon
Sure, maybe the water’s only three feet deep, boat, to canoe, now a kayak. I do have only
but the lasting impression is that you’ll never one unfavorable comment about the “Catch
capsize so why worry—and if you do, heck, Photograph Release,” not really to the maga-
“just climb back in.” zine but to the people who sent in the pic-
All it will take is one idiot to get tangled tures. I do believe a couple of those were not
up in his gadget-rigged fishing kayak and caught and released. I know all of us fisher-
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KayaK angler summer/fall 2008
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