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Product Review: The Redline TailSpin

05 Thursday Mar 2020

Posted by Henry Veggian in Bio, product reviews, Writings

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Fishing, kayak fishing, kbf, RedLine Lures, Sports, Tailspin Lures

My review of this clever reinvention of a classic lure design is now up on the KBF Blog.

Disclaimer: I am not on the RedLine Pro Staff. This is an article I wrote because of my interest in new interpretations of older lure designs.

Click here for more: https://www.kayakbassfishing.com/blog-reinventing-the-tailspin/

Thanks for reading!

H

 

One Path among many, but only One Boat: On Joining the Jackson Fishing Team

27 Thursday Feb 2020

Posted by Henry Veggian in Bio, Essays, Kayak Fishing Posts, Writings

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#BiteFD, Carolina Yakfish, Drew Gregory, Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, Jackson Adventures, Jackson Coosa, Jackson Kayak Fishing Team, Jackson Kayaks, kayak fishing, kbf, Marco Polo, Matt Ball

Beginnings contain more than an intention. When we start on something new, we bring to it our history, or memory, and culture. We add to it our desire and we imagine what might be. We peer at the horizon and dream to see what might be there, but we can never truly know. Beginnings are that too – they are possibilities, only some of which become real.  In his wonderful book Invisible Cities, the writer Italo Calvino imagines Marco Polo entertaining Kublai Khan with stories while the two men play chess. One story begins; “The man who is traveling and does not yet know the city awaiting him along his route wonders what the palace will be like, the barracks, the mill, the theater, the bazaar.” When he arrives, he finds a different city.

Like me, Marco Polo was an Italian of Venetian descent, a wandered on water and land, a person who, when he saw the griffin carrying the tablet the Lord delivered to Saint Mark, paused. I am partial to his Travels not only for their beauty and imagination but because they were written as if each word were a stage of the journey. At times, you never quite know where they will lead. Sometimes we move in straight lines or at angles. At others we move on tracks adjacent to the ones we had planned, a step removed from some other possible reality. Sometimes the paths intersect, at others they diverge. We might even come full circle. Continue reading →

The 2010’s: A Kayak Fishing Decade in Review

30 Monday Dec 2019

Posted by Henry Veggian in Essays, Kayak Fishing Posts

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Carolina Yakfish, CKA, Fishing, Henry Veggian Kayak Fishing, Kayak Fishing Posts, kbf, Largemouth Bass, Sports

When you are young, the world is your private pond. It’s stocked with fat fish and they bite every lure you throw.  You can sit on the bank and eat chips, sleep and dream of adventures you had and will never have. You can wake up and dive in the pond or chase your friends around the banks until the wind gets winded. Youth is a fork and the world is your mussel.

Before you know it, you are tired, stressed and it’s all gone. If you are lucky, you have a job and your health. If you are really fortunate you still sneak out to fish sometimes and forget your troubles. The mussels aren’t quite as abundant and they cost more, but they still taste really good.

We are closing a historic decade in the artful sport of fishing. It will forever be known as the decade during which kayak tournament fishing went from a local hobby to national and international stature. The sport’s business side has blossomed, the media have portrayed us in a good light and there are more tournament options than one can count. There are kayaks on every lake, many with rods sticking out of them and looking like antennae farms floating on some extra-terrestrial settlement. In only a few short years, it appears a viable model for the sport has emerged: the technology has improved, state wildlife agencies have noticed us, competition formats have settled into some degree of normalcy and people are out there fishing and having fun, whether in tournaments or otherwise. Hell, even the venerated B.A.S.S. organization has adopted us. Who saw that coming?

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“Seasonal Heat”: Temperature, Strategy and Tactics at the 2019 KBF National Championship

08 Monday Apr 2019

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2019 KBF National Championship, Bass Fishing, Kayak Bass Fishing, Kayak Bass Fishing national Championship, kayak fishing, kbf, nature, water temperature and the bass spawn

A big storm is rolling in as I write this. There is thunder in the distance, so the yard work I neglected for fishing is out of the question. The sky is darker than a crow feather, the air is yellow with pollen and only a fool would venture outside. It’s the sort of dramatic weather that makes us paddle hard and fast to reach safe harbor.

Experienced anglers know that weather plays a large role in influencing how fish feed. To some, it is equal to or even more important than moon phase, or the animal’s biological clock, or even bait selection. But where can we draw the line? How subtle can it be? Does the sky have to look like a Hollywood special effect to make us think how weather impacts a bite? No – Sometimes the smallest margins make the biggest difference. Continue reading →

Birth of a Sport: The Rise of Kayak Fishing

17 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by Henry Veggian in Essays, Kayak Fishing Posts, Writings

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birth of a sport, chad hoover, kayak, Kayak Bass Fishing, kayak fishing national championship, Kayak Fishing Posts, Kayaks, kbf, Kentucky Lake, paddle sports, paris tennesssee

I wrote “Birth of a Sport: Kayak Fishing” in 2016 about the state of kayak fishing after the 1st KBF National Championship. The article was originally published in the spring 2016 issue of Pacific Standard magazine as part of a series entitled “Economy of Scales.”

The file below is a PDF copy of the main text, without the photos included in the original on-line publication. A link to the archived copy, with photos, is included in the file.

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