Kayaking

by JD Pate -

A kayak is one of the stealthiest fishing platforms I've used. While boat design aids one's on-the-water stealthness, just how quiet things end up being is up to the individual. Here are three easy ways to keep kayak fishing covert.

1. Use Padding to Dampen Sound

Maybe you’ve seen the large surfboard-looking things on the floor of a Bass Pro Shops or even watched as an angler stood enviably on a small platform in a lake, casting to fish as easily as if he were standing on the deck of a bass boat.

Slipping quietly over a shallow weed bed, you feel the subtle brush of vegetation below your feet. With the sweep of a paddle a swirling vortex, water spins past the side of your small vessel as you slip gently through northern pike haven. That's kayak fishing at its best.

If you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to give kayak fishing a try.

Paddling for fish in the quiet reaches of a salt marsh has a quality that not many other expe

Larry Whiteley, host of the award-winning Outdoor World Radio show, offers the benefits of adding kayak fis

The beaver waddled up out of the lake to investigate lakeside vegetation for breakfast. He poked around and nibbled on a few green strands before slipping back in to the water. It paddled along the shore for several yards before climbing out for a second helping. I observed the beaver in great detail as if I was only a few feet away — actually I was.