My love affair with competitive kayak fishing began five years ago. I was working on a customer’s compound bow at an archery shop when someone brought in a flier for a local kayak fishing tournament.

Competitive bass anglers are well known to have a hankering for metal-flaked boats with mega-horsepower engines, but an angler from nearby Uniontown has punched his ticket for the biggest stage in the ...

Angling for bass from souped-up kayaks a growing part of Minnesota's fishing scene The tournaments, including one set for next month in Minneapolis, are designed for people who fish from kayaks but ...

A strange kayak-cheating scandal reinforces the same truth: rules can guide a sport, but only integrity can protect it. Feedback from my earlier piece on integrity among bass tournament anglers ...

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Modern kayak fishing was born on the ocean. Malibu surfer Tim Niemier developed the first sit-on-top kayak to paddle past the breakers and target fish in open water. More recently, kayak fishing ...