My Bass Fishing Tournament Kayak Setup

My Bass Fishing Tournament Kayak Setup

As kayak fishing continues to grow in popularity, the ability to customize your kayak grows in lockstep. There’s not just one way to do it. Depending on what you carry and where you fish, you might have a setup that’s uniquely perfect for you. To give you some ideas, let’s go through how I rig my Hobie PA 14. Let’s start with the battery power. This is no simple craft and it needs lots of juice during the day. Fortunately with a single Pro Guide PGL50 lithium battery, I can take care of all of my power needs. It’s super-light, […]

Ike’s Big Kayak Win

Ike’s Big Kayak Win

This is unbelievable. I am seriously jacked up. Winning a kayak event at the professional level has been on my bucket list for the past three years. I just finished hugging my trophy from the 2021 B.A.S.S. Nation Kayak Series powered by Tourney X at Upper Chesapeake Bay for the bazillionth time. It’ll sit next to my Top 150 trophy, my Bassmaster Tour trophy, my Nation trophy, my Open trophies, my Elite trophies, my Classic trophy and my Angler of the Year trophy. Before I get into anything else, though, I think maybe I should tell you a little about […]

Lures are tools

Lures are tools

I know you hear all the time that lures are nothing more than tools. The thing is, though, it’s true. And nowhere was that more obvious than in our filming of the . It was early fall so the bass were in a transition mode. We launched our big BassCat with the Hobie kayak onboard. When we got to a backwater area we dropped the kayak into the water and went on back into a place that wasn’t accessible any other way. It was basically a perfect spot for what we wanted. There was a mixture of hydrilla and coontail […]