There are advantages to kayak fishing over power boat
fishing. One of the biggest of these is
the ease of access to fishing water in a kayak.
You can take a kayak just about anywhere and fish waters you cannot
reach in a big boat.
To move your kayak from location to location (from your
house to the water), all you need is a vehicle.
You don’t need a trailer, although if you are carrying multiple kayaks a
trailer can be useful. Most of the time,
you don’t even need someone else to help you load or unload the kayak. I can load and unload my Jackson Coosa’s and
Cuda’s myself. You want to be careful
not to hurt yourself, but with a little bit of brains and a little bit of muscle,
you can get it done. If you build
yourself a little cart to carry the back end of your kayak, you can bring the
kayak to the water, over long distances, without getting tired.
Another bonus to kayaks is that you do not need a boat ramp
to launch. You can launch just about
anywhere there is water. A boat ramp can
make this easy, but it is not necessary.
Heck, I have lowered my kayak down a 10” bank, into a river, then jumped
in the water and climbed into the kayak from there. There is no way you can do anything remotely
close to that in a boat. You also, do
not need to get your vehicle right next to the water to launch a kayak. You can park anywhere and carry a kayak to
the water. Now, I have carried a jon
boat pretty good distances, haha, but I would like to see someone carry a
bass-boat at all.
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| Kayaks let you access places that a boat cannot |
Another part of the “ease of access” reason that I kayak
fish, is that in a kayak, you can access water you cannot fish in a boat. I sorta touched on this earlier when I
discussed being able to launch from areas you cannot launch a boat, but beyond
that, once you are in the water, you can take your kayak into places that boats
just can’t reach. Talk to any Saltwater
Kayak angler, like Tray Collins, and they will tell you that there is nothing
better for chasing redfish that are tailing in the shallows than a kayak. You can simply access skinnier water than a
boat can, and you can reach more water that someone wade-fishing. This shallow water can translate into
freshwater fishing as well. The shallow
floating nature of a kayak will allow you to easily fish shallow freshwater
too, in lakes or rivers.
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| Could I have camped along the river like this from a boat? No! |
In rivers, the Jackson Coosa excels. You can take the kayak into shallower waters
than you can a boat, easily floating rapids.
You also have so much more control of the Coosa than you would a boat,
or most other kayaks for that matter, allowing you to quickly turn and sneak
into a cove or make a cast back into the current just behind a rapid. We all know how productive that water can
be! The Coosa has an advantage over
peddle powered kayaks in shallow water.
With a peddle powered kayak, you have to remove the peddle system to
scoot across shallows and rapids. Not in
a Coosa!
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| Can you flip you bass-boat over to use a table to filet freshly caught Breakfast? |
In lakes, kayaks such as the Jackson Cuda, allow you to
sneak into coves and areas that are either too shallow or too narrow for a boat
to fit in. You can also take your kayak
back into a area full of trees or grass.
You don’t have to worry about the prop getting banged up or your pretty
sparkles getting scratched. You can cast
to bass that most people can’t!
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| I wouldn't have been able to access this bass on Lake Amistad without a Kayak, the closest boat ramp was out of water |
Basically, to me, ease of access just means that it is
easier to take your kayak to the water and once there, it is easier to access
more water. That is a huge reason why I
kayak fish!
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