Places I’d Like To Fish

Moraine Lake in Banff National Park,Alberta Canada.

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Transparent Canoe

We posted about this one ages ago, and its near the top of my Wish List, but here are some more photos of the beautiful transparent canoe.

I wonder what the fish would think of this…

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The SS Fury 2.0

I got a canoe! She’s old and worn out, but she was only $50! One of my coworkers overheard me talking about wanting to buy a canoe and she told me she has had one sitting in her backyard for five years. She said its all yours for fifty bucks so I went to check it out this morning with the money in hand.

Its a fairly heavy canoe, but its a good size with a maximum capacity of 850lbs and its has a nice stable flat bottom much like our old canoe. I was able to pick up 50 feet of parachute cord for $2 and a pool noodle for $1.50 to make sure I got it home in one piece without scratching the car.

I’d love to take it out for a ride today, but I need to get paddles and life jackets still plus I’d like to sand it down and add a new coat of paint – although I do like that it already comes in Fury Red. She probably wont see water until late May when I return from Georgia.

Jack Lake Fishing Report, August 21-22 2004

Here is another one of our older articles, this time it’s one of my favorite Musky reports from 2004. Unfortunately, it was also the weekend that my thumb got a nice gash when a Musky tried to have it for lunch, it was still one of the most beautiful and memorable weekends of 2004.

Enjoy!

“We were no longer men. We had become something more. We were like gods, fishing from the clouds in search angels…”

Our day started late, we arrived at Jacks lake around one in the afternoon. The sun was bright and shone down with great heat. We layered up with sun block, packed up the canoe and set out on our way. We covered the opposite shore with soft plastic baits in search of lunker bass. We quickly advanced over shallow shorelines covered by weeds and rock. Within a couple hours we had reached the bay we wanted to fish. We decided to stop and prepare some food, allowing the afternoon sun to cool down.

We headed directly to the spot we planned to fish. Prior visits to this location had led us to believe muskie
could be located here. We cut the motor a hundred yards away. A cool breeze drifted us perfectly into position. I tied on a Mepps black fury (Musky Killer) with a black bucktail. Jon did the same. The smell of muskie was in the air.

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Big Fish From a Kayak

Our first year together as Fishing Fury we fished mostly out of a 15′ flat back canoe with a 2HP motor. There was something about catching big fish from a little boat, even a big bass could pull us around a bit and muskies could tow us out of bays. We were far more maneuverable than traditional boats, we could get in tight places other boats couldn’t even cast to and find monster bass hiding in the thickest cover. And we always stood up to fish. Two people standing up in a 15′ canoe can be dangerous, but we were pro’s, we could “surf” through other boats wakes while standing and even when Clive hit me in the back of the head with a Mepps Musky Killer, we never fell in. This year with Clive and I abroad, we gave the canoe back to its owner, Devon.

Thanks for letting us use your canoe Devon, without it Fishing Fury wouldn’t have been nearly as furious. Now it’s time for an upgrade, not the boat, the fish.

Kayak fishing has become extremely popular these days, with a few manufacturers making kayaks specificly designed for fishing. Kayak fishing is the culmination of big fish from a little boat, in the open ocean you have a good chance of catching a fish bigger than your kayak.

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Just last month, on October 25th, Larry Laumanm from La Jolla, California caught the new kayak world record Yellowtail weighing in at 50.65 pounds and 53″ in length. Larry didn’t have to travel far, in fact he caught it in what you could consier his “backyard” fishing spot with his neighborhood off in the distance. La Jolla is actually a very popular kayak fishing area that even has kayak fishing charters and guide services. Jim Sammons, of La Jolla kayak fishing, is believed to be the second person to hook, fight, and land a marlin on a kayak.

For more information on kayak fishing visit kayakfishing.com, kayakfishingstuff.com, kayaksportfishing.com, and kayak4fish.com.